Our History

In 2011, founder and then Editor-in-Chief Lucia Kim established the first Dianoia Editorial Board under the guidance of faculty advisor Ronald Tacelli, S.J. The journal received over seventy submissions from Boston College undergraduates and published seven articles in the spring of 2012.

Following the successful publication of Issue I through Boston College’s Collegiate Press, Dianoia returned in the fall of 2012 and in this iteration also featured an interview with the renown Heideggerian and Jesuit priest William J. Richardson. In the third and final year of Dianoia before its brief, two-year administrative hiatus between 2015 and 2016, Karel-Bart Celie led the journal as its Editor-in-Chief and published another interview (this time with public intellectual and philosopher Richard Kearney for his role in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement).

Dianoia’s logistical hiatus lasted until the journal’s third Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lombardo and managing-editors Peter Klapes and Jordan Pino published Issue IV in the spring of 2017. This rebirth gave rise to a number of stylistic and managerial changes, but perhaps most significantly, Dianoia opened up its review to the international community for the first time in its history.

In the following year, Peter Klapes led the publication from 2017 to 2019 through its fifth and sixth issues and published a review of Julio Cabrera’s Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics, and Procreation in Issue VI. Presently, Tanner Loper serves as the journal’s seventh Editor-in-Chief.