Gerard Ryan
Professor Ryan serves as the Assistant Professor of Political Theology at Regis College, within the Regis St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology at the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto. He also holds the Scarboro Missions Chair in Inter-religious Dialogue and serves as Director of the Msgr. John Fraser Centre for Practical Theology.
Professor Ryan earned degrees from the University of Toronto and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on recognition theories and vulnerability studies as resources for developing a theological framework of mutual accompaniment. His publications include the monograph Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living: Recognition of the Vulnerable Other (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), as well as a forthcoming book under contract with Routledge, Ecological Accompaniment in an Age of Loneliness: New Landscapes in Practical Theology, expected in 2025.
In 2021, Professor Ryan was co-awarded a grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to integrate science into the curriculum at Regis College. Building on this initiative, he secured an additional AAAS grant in 2024 to explore the intersection of climate change and theological education.