Daniel A. Morris
- Chair, Department of Global Humanities
- Associate Professor of Philosophy
About
Dan Morris began teaching at Norwich University in 2018. After graduating in 2012 with a doctorate from the University of Iowa, Dan taught for five years at Augustana College in Illinois. His training is in religious studies, with special attention to Christian ethics, American religious history, and issues at the intersection of race, democracy, and religious thought.
In addition to teaching courses on world religions, just war theory, and applied ethics, Dan helped revive the Norwich Debate Club and served as co-editor of the online forum Voices on Peace and War. He lives in Northfield with his wife and three kids.
Education
Ph.D. Modern Religious Thought, University of Iowa, 2012
M.A.R. Church History, Yale Divinity School, 2007
B.A. Religious Studies, Davidson College, 2003
Courses Taught
PH 220 Comparative Religion
PH 324 Criminal Justice Ethics
PH 340 Non-violence and Just War Theory
Publications
Daniel A. Morris, Force, Religion, and the Quest for African American Justice: A Study of the Black Just War Tradition(New York: Bloomsbury, 2025).
Daniel A. Morris, “Tragedy and Irony,” in The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr, ed. Robin Lovin and Joshua Mauldin, Oxford Handbooks (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Daniel A. Morris, “Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue of Mutuality,” in Paradoxical Virtue, ed. Kevin Carnahan and David True (London: Routledge, 2021).
In the News
Strategic Studies in War, Diplomacy, and the Modern World
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