Rita George Tvrtković,  MTS, Ph.D. 

Rita George-Tvrtković, PhD
Dean & Professor of Theology
MTS Theological Studies, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
PhD History of Christianity, University of Notre Dame

Rita George-Tvrtković is a historical theologian specializing in medieval Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations and contemporary ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. Her books include A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islam (Brepols 2012); Nicholas of Cusa and Islam: Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages, co-edited with Ian Levy and Don Duclow (Brill 2014); Christians, Muslims, and Mary: A History (Paulist 2018); and Companions to the Christian Tradition: Christian-Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean co-edited with Jessalynn Bird (Brill, 2025). Recent articles include “From Billboards to Mosques Maryam: Do Muslims Today Call on Mary with Devotion?” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Journal 34.2 (December 2024) and “Dialogues on Theosis with Jews and Muslims” in Oxford Handbook of Deification, ed. Matthew Levering, Andrew Hofer, and Paul Gavrilyuk (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

She is former associate director of Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, and was recently reappointed by Pope Leo for a second term as Consultor for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. She is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the American Cusanus Society, the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic-Muslim Scholars Dialogue, the USCCB National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, and the Vatican Women’s Interreligious Network.