Aana Marie Vigen
| Aana Marie Vigen | ||
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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 jointly conferred by the Graduate Theological Union and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She earned a Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Dr. Vigen offers courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Vigens first book, Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare: "To Count among the Living", was published in 2006 by Palgrave Macmillan. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes, such as "To Hear and To Be Accountable Across Difference: An Ethic of White Listening" in Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What WE Need to Do (Pilgrim Press, 2004) and "That All May Be Well: Reforming Healthcare" in Churches and Public Life (Westminster John Knox Press, Spring 2008).
Dr. Vigen has also organized with Patricia B. Jung a conference at Loyola titled "Human Sexuality: A Dialogue Across Disciplines," which was held in September 2007. She and Dr. Jung are currently co-editing a book based on this conference tentatively titled Christianity, Gender, and Human Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.
Dr. Vigen is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities. Dr. Vigen is also an active lay member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.