An expert on The Catholic Church and War and Peace-Just War, Lisa Sowle Cahill is the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she has taught since 1976 on the history of Christian Ethics, Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics, Bioethics and the Ethics of War and Peace.

Dr. Cahill is a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (l992-93) and of the Society of Christian Ethics (l997-98). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was the Alumna of the Year at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1999. Cahill has eight honorary degrees and has served on the Steering Committee of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative since 1998. Cahill has also been a visiting professor at Georgetown and Yale Universities. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Santa Clara and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She and her husband Larry have five children.