Faculty Director
William Mattison III
Chair, Department of Theology
Wilsey Family College Professor
Faculty Director, Moreau Program
Professor Mattison is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Theology and serves as the Faculty Director of the Moreau Program. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame. During these years he studied Thomistic moral theology under Dr. Jean Porter, and spent a year on a Fulbright Fellowship in Fribourg, Switzerland doing dissertation research under the guidance of Fr. Servais Pinckaers, O.P. He then spent two years as a Visiting Assistant professor at Notre Dame, and another two at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD before joining the faculty at the Catholic University of America’s School of Theology & Religious Studies.
Professor Mattison spent ten years at The Catholic University of America. After tenure he served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and one year as Interim Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies. He also began to write and speak on Catholic higher education. He returned to Notre Dame in 2016 with a joint appointment as Wilsey Family Associate Professor in the Department of Theology as well as Senior Advisor for Theological Formation in the Alliance for Catholic Education, where he helped prepare Catholic school teachers.
Professor Mattison is now the Wilsey Family College Professor of Theology, and he continues to write and to teach students at the doctoral, Masters (including seminarians), and undergraduate levels. He was named in 2023 the Faculty Director of the Moreau Program, leading the reconception and implementation of the Moreau seminars, part of the Core Curriculum for all Notre Dame undergraduates.