Miss Anna Blackman

  • Lecturer in Catholic Religious Education (Educational Leadership & Policy)

Biography

Anna is a Lecturer in Catholic Religious Education located in the Pedagogy, Praxis and Faith Research and Teaching Group. She assists with the work of the School of Education and the St. Andrew's Foundation. Anna has taught widely in the areas of Catholic social thought, Christian ethics, Christian apologetics, and political theology. Prior to her time at Glasgow, she lectured at the universities of Roehampton, Durham, Newcastle, and Tubingen, as well as working as a Research Associate in the area of Catholic social thought and practice at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame from 2018-2019. Her research focused on analysing the ethics of institutions in light of Catholic social teaching, in which she carried out extensive ethnographic research. Of special interest to her was the ethical frameworks used within Catholic schools. Following this she continued to research the ethics of institutions through an ethnographic study of the organizational functioning of the NHS in conjunction with the universities of Notre Dame and the IFZ in Salzburg. She has also undertaken research for several UK-based Catholic charities looking at the connection between institutional functioning and theological identity. Her upcoming research will focus on what methods can be used to best teach Catholic social teaching as well as how the tradition itself can be used to inform Catholic religious education and pedagogy.

Research interests

Anna's research focuses primarily on the intersection between Catholic theology and Catholic social thought and practice. She is interested in how Catholic social thought can be integrated in the wider body of Catholic theology, forming a holistic approach between the doctrinal and the social. Of particular concern is how this can be achieved in Catholic religious education and catechesis.

Anna is also interested in the dialogue between Catholic social thought, political theology, and Christian ethics. She is interested in how the Catholic tradition can learn from other traditions about the best ways to incorporate faith and praxis. In particular she is concerned with how we can learn from grassroots faith-based movements and organizations, viewing praxis as already theological. Her doctorate focuses on this in specific relation to the Catholic Worker movement presenting a theology of praxis and how this relates to, and critiques, more recognised theological voices such as those of the Magisterium and the academy. Of specific concern is what such socio-political movements can teach the Church about how to best engage with the poor and marginalized, as well as how more normative theological voices often further isolate these groups.

Publications

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2025

Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

2024

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2024) Inhabiting the kingdom: theologies of nonviolence in the catholic worker movement. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), pp. 606-618. (doi: 10.1177/09539468241258962)

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2024) The Catholic worker movement as a British phenomenon and its influence on lay Catholic political resistance in the UK. In: Power, Maria and Bush, Jonathan (eds.) Twentieth-Century Lay Catholic Action and Spirituality in Britain. The Catholic Archives Society. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Theological Foundations of Environmental Justice in Catholic Social Teaching. The Intersection of Nonviolence and Care for Creation, Fall Seminar Series, 10 October 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569, Jones, David, Kimmage, Michael and Linden, Ian (2023) War Without End in Ukraine? Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues, 13 September 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Review of 'Dancing with Loneliness'. Pastoral Review, 19(3), [Book Review]

McCarthy, Eli and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Introduction: nonviolence and just peace in Catholic social thought and practice. Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 20(2), pp. 219-221. (doi: 10.5840/jcathsoc202320216)

Mullaney, Casey and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) An Active, Vital Peace: Nonviolence, Social Renewal, and the Contemporary Witness of the Catholic Worker. Catholic Social Tradition Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 23-25 March 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) The Catholic Worker Movement and the Theology of Nonviolence. Just War/Just Peace, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2 March 2023.

McCarthy, Eli and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (Eds.) (2023) Special Issue: Nonviolence and Just Peace in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. Journal of Catholic Social Thought. 20(2) [Edited Journal]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Nourishing nonviolence: Dorothy Day as exemplar and educator. Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 20(2), pp. 305-326. (doi: 10.5840/jcathsoc202320221)

2022

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 and Reilly, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8678-5950 (2022) Speaking Our Language: Catholic Social Teaching, Pupil Equity Funding and Catholic Educational Agency. SERA National Conference, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, 23rd-25th November 2022.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Embodying Catholic Social Thought and Practice. Educating for Justice Seminar, 31 January 2022.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Creation and Nonviolence: Reflections in Light of COP 26. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Catholic social teaching. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Double justice. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Justice. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

2021

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Integral Ecology and Creative Nonviolence. Catholics and COP26 – Artists, Activists, and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation, Glasgow, UK, 5 November 2021.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Creation and Nonviolence. COP 26: The Roar of Many Waters, Glasgow, UK, 23 October 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Laudato Si' Movement - Critical Moment for Climate. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Pedagogies of the Pandemic Blog 1: “Light Shines in the Darkness”. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 and Franchi, Leonardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-0975 (2021) Fratelli tutti and the dialogic spirit of Catholic Higher Education: a reflection on Christian Humanism and online learning. EducA: International Catholic Journal of Education, 7, pp. 50-58.

2020

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2020) Advent Retreat: Watching, Waiting, Hoping. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2020) Remote learning and the Eucharistic potential of online education. [Website]

2019

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2019) The common good and the challenge of populism. Signs of the Times: a Catholic Social Tradition Blog, 7 Mar.

Shortall, J P and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2019) Signs of the Times Podcast #12: Brexit and Issues of Subsidiarity ft. Anna Blackman. [Audio]

2018

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2018) Moralizing neoliberalism? An analysis of the principle of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching. In: Still, Carl N. and Rompré, Gertrude (eds.) Turning to the World: Social Justice and the Common Good Since Vatican II. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, pp. 50-66. ISBN 9780773555266

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2018) Holy disobedience: political resistance in the London Catholic Worker community. Implicit Religion, 21(2), pp. 122-141. (doi: 10.1558/imre.37201)

2016

Blackman, Anna P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2016) Brexit: an exercise in the violation of subsidiarity. Political Theology Today, 8 Jul.

2013

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2013) Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority by Phyllis Zagano. Pp. 220. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. £58.00 (hbk). £19.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-230-11164-6 (pbk). Theology and Sexuality, 19(2), pp. 187-189. (doi: 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000032)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 30.

Articles

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2024) Inhabiting the kingdom: theologies of nonviolence in the catholic worker movement. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), pp. 606-618. (doi: 10.1177/09539468241258962)

McCarthy, Eli and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Introduction: nonviolence and just peace in Catholic social thought and practice. Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 20(2), pp. 219-221. (doi: 10.5840/jcathsoc202320216)

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Nourishing nonviolence: Dorothy Day as exemplar and educator. Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 20(2), pp. 305-326. (doi: 10.5840/jcathsoc202320221)

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 and Franchi, Leonardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-0975 (2021) Fratelli tutti and the dialogic spirit of Catholic Higher Education: a reflection on Christian Humanism and online learning. EducA: International Catholic Journal of Education, 7, pp. 50-58.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2019) The common good and the challenge of populism. Signs of the Times: a Catholic Social Tradition Blog, 7 Mar.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2018) Holy disobedience: political resistance in the London Catholic Worker community. Implicit Religion, 21(2), pp. 122-141. (doi: 10.1558/imre.37201)

Blackman, Anna P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2016) Brexit: an exercise in the violation of subsidiarity. Political Theology Today, 8 Jul.

Book Sections

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2024) The Catholic worker movement as a British phenomenon and its influence on lay Catholic political resistance in the UK. In: Power, Maria and Bush, Jonathan (eds.) Twentieth-Century Lay Catholic Action and Spirituality in Britain. The Catholic Archives Society. (Accepted for Publication)

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Catholic social teaching. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Double justice. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Justice. In: Louth, Andrew (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [4th ed.]. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642465

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2018) Moralizing neoliberalism? An analysis of the principle of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching. In: Still, Carl N. and Rompré, Gertrude (eds.) Turning to the World: Social Justice and the Common Good Since Vatican II. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago, pp. 50-66. ISBN 9780773555266

Book Reviews

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Review of 'Dancing with Loneliness'. Pastoral Review, 19(3), [Book Review]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2013) Women & Catholicism: Gender, Communion, and Authority by Phyllis Zagano. Pp. 220. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. £58.00 (hbk). £19.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-230-11164-6 (pbk). Theology and Sexuality, 19(2), pp. 187-189. (doi: 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000032)[Book Review]

Edited Journals

McCarthy, Eli and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (Eds.) (2023) Special Issue: Nonviolence and Just Peace in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. Journal of Catholic Social Thought. 20(2) [Edited Journal]

Research Reports or Papers

Imperiale, M. G. et al. (2025) LINEs4Palestine. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) Theological Foundations of Environmental Justice in Catholic Social Teaching. The Intersection of Nonviolence and Care for Creation, Fall Seminar Series, 10 October 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569, Jones, David, Kimmage, Michael and Linden, Ian (2023) War Without End in Ukraine? Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues, 13 September 2023.

Mullaney, Casey and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) An Active, Vital Peace: Nonviolence, Social Renewal, and the Contemporary Witness of the Catholic Worker. Catholic Social Tradition Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 23-25 March 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2023) The Catholic Worker Movement and the Theology of Nonviolence. Just War/Just Peace, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2 March 2023.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 and Reilly, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8678-5950 (2022) Speaking Our Language: Catholic Social Teaching, Pupil Equity Funding and Catholic Educational Agency. SERA National Conference, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus, 23rd-25th November 2022.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Embodying Catholic Social Thought and Practice. Educating for Justice Seminar, 31 January 2022.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Integral Ecology and Creative Nonviolence. Catholics and COP26 – Artists, Activists, and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation, Glasgow, UK, 5 November 2021.

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Creation and Nonviolence. COP 26: The Roar of Many Waters, Glasgow, UK, 23 October 2023.

Audio

Shortall, J P and Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2019) Signs of the Times Podcast #12: Brexit and Issues of Subsidiarity ft. Anna Blackman. [Audio]

Website

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2022) Creation and Nonviolence: Reflections in Light of COP 26. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Laudato Si' Movement - Critical Moment for Climate. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2021) Pedagogies of the Pandemic Blog 1: “Light Shines in the Darkness”. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2020) Advent Retreat: Watching, Waiting, Hoping. [Website]

Blackman, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-5569 (2020) Remote learning and the Eucharistic potential of online education. [Website]

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Additional information

Experience and Responsibilities

Teaching:

Guest lectures: 

  • ‘Living in and with Poverty’, Scott Appleby’s Introduction to Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, February 2019.
  • ‘Collective Dignity’, Clemens Sedmak’s Theology of Human Dignity, February 2019.
  • ‘Enacting Human Dignity’, Clemens Sedmak’s Integral Human Development, November 2018.
  • ‘Introduction to Catholic Social Thought’, given to Fulbright FLTAS, University of Notre Dame, November 2018.

Extra-curricular ‘Introductory course to Catholic Social Thought and Practice’, Durham University, October-November 2014.

Conference Organization: 

2012 ‘Contemporary Issues in Catholic Theology’, Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University. 

2012 ‘Blurring Boundaries’, & 2011 ‘Perspectives from Where We Stand’, Café des Femmes, Theology Department, Durham University.

Invite-only Research Colloquiums: 

International Workshop: The Ethics of Institutions, University of Notre Dame, 28th – 29th October 2019.

Restorative Justice on Catholic Campuses Workshop, University of Notre Dame, March 2019.

CAFOD day of reflection on Laudato Si’, Durham University, 19 th January 2016. 

‘Laudato Si’: The Greening of the Church?’, Institute for Religion and Critical Enquiry, Australian Catholic University & Catholic University of America Rome Center, 22 nd-25th September 2015. 

 

Employment

September 2019 - June 2020 Researcher: Health Services and Humanizing Institutions, University of Notre Dame & the University of Salzburg.

September – December 2019 Visiting Lecturer, University of Roehampton, Christian Apologetics.

August 2018 – August 2019 Research Fellow, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame, Humanizing Institutions Project.

October 2017-March 2018 Teaching Fellow, Dogmatic Doctrinal History and Ecumenical Institute, Tubingen University, Germany, 20th Century Social Movements and the Construction of Catholic Social Doctrine.

October 2016-June 2017 Lecturer, Durham University, 3rd year course, Christian Tradition and the Practice of Politics.

May 2016- January 2017 Researcher for St. Vincent de Paul charity, working alongside Dr. Anna Rowlands, Prof. Karen Kilby & Dr. Jim Sweeney. 

January 2015- December 2017 Research Assistant for Dr. Anna Rowlands.

October 2014- June 2016, Lecturer, Newcastle University, The Art of Theological Reflection. 

October 2013- June 2016, Teaching Assistant, Durham University:

  • October 2015- June 2016: 2nd year courses, Topics in Christian Ethics, with Prof. Robert Song, and God, Freedom & the Soul (an introduction to philosophical theology)
  • October 2013 –June 2015: 1st year course, Introduction to Christian Theology
  • October 2013 – June 2014: 1st year course, Christianity in Context

 

Memberships

Society for the Study of Religion

American Academy of Religion

Society for the Study of Christian Ethics