Christopher Tollefsen received his Ph.D. at Emory University in 1995. After spending a year at UofSC as a visitor, and then a year teaching philosophy in Ejisu, Ghana, he returned permanently to UofSC in 1997. He has twice had year-long fellowships at the James Madison Program at Princeton University; he has also had a visiting fellowship at the Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University.
His works include:
- The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession, co-authored with Farr Curlin of Duke University (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021).
- Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader, co-edited with John Liptay of St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan (Catholic University of America Press, 2020).
- Lying and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2014).