Christopher Dreisbach

Christopher Dreisbach was born in Brooklyn, NY, on Aug. 7, 1957 and spent most of his childhood and youth in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his parents and siblings still live. In 1979 he graduated from Hamline University (Phi Beta Kappa) with a major in philosophy and started graduate school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He received his MA in 1981 and his PhD in 1988, both in philosophy.

He began his teaching career in philosophy at Villa Julie College in 1980; moved to College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1992,where he chaired the philosophy department for 10 years; and took a full time position at Johns Hopkins University in 2004. He also began teaching moral and systematic theology at the Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary's Seminary & University, in 1992.

He is currently Director of Organizational Leadership in Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is professor (part-time) of moral and systematic theology at the Ecumenical Institute of Theology. And he is a Priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He is a frequent lecturer on ethics for law enforcement organizations such as the U. S. Secret Service, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, The Senior Management Institute for Police, and state and local law enforcement agencies in Maryland and Washington, DC.

His recent books include, Ethics in Criminal Justice (McGraw-Hill, 2009), Collingwood on the Moral Principles of Art (Susquehanna University Press, 2009), Social and Criminal Justice in Moral Perspective (Bridgepoint, 2012), and Constitutional Literacy: A Twenty-first Century Imperative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Your God is to Somber (Wipf & Stock, 2019). His most recent research interests include the ethics of belief, constitutional literacy, the logic of the Federalist papers, and leadership ethics.

He lives in Baltimore, with his wife Rebecca.