Aana Marie Vigen
	Title:	Assistant Professor
	Office:	Crown Center, 309
	Phone:	773.508.2342
	E-mail:	avigen@luc.edu

Personal Information

Aana Marie Vigen is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. Her area of specialization is healthcare and medical ethics. In particular, she is interested in quality of, and access to, healthcare along with racial-ethnic and socio-economic disparities in care. She incorporates an interdisciplinary method of study, drawing upon the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and theology. Dr. Vigen earned a B.A. in Spanish, Religion, and Hispanic Studies from St. Olaf College. She earned an M.A. in Theology and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union and was affiliated with Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary during this time. In May of 2004, she earned a Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and then joined the Faculty at Loyola in August 2004. She offers courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Vigen frequently gives papers at professional meetings and has published several articles. In addition, she wrote a chapter in Disrupting Racism from Within: White People on What WE Need to Do (Pilgrim Press, 2004), entitled "To Hear and To Be Accountable Across Difference: An Ethic of White Listening."

She is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH). Dr. Vigen is also an active lay member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).