CHRISTOPHER TIRRES

ENDOWED PROFESSOR OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERRELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT, COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Christopher Tirres is a Vincent de Paul Professor of Religious Studies and the Inaugural Endowed Professor of Diplomacy and Interreligious Engagement in the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He also directs DePaul's Center for Religion, Culture and Community. An award-winning teacher, author and community activist, Tirres incorporates Vincentian personalism into everything he does in the classroom, on campus and in his personal life. Recently, he was one of several contributing authors who drafted DePaul’s Land Acknowledgement Statement.

I love the statue of Monisgnor Egan in front of the LPC Student Center. The inscription -- "What are you doing for justice?" -- gives me focus. As faculty, we often describe our work in terms of teaching, research and service. But Egan reminds us that justice is ultimately the larger horizon to which all these things should point.

Christopher Tirres

FACES OF DEPAUL