His publications include Christian Realism and Liberation Theology (Orbis Books, 1981), and New Experiment in Democracy: The Challenge for American Catholicism (Sheed and Ward, 1987).
McCann has extensive academic experience in Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India and other countries in east Asia.
In June, 2003 McCann was the ASC representative to Kinjo Gakuin University in Nagoya, Japan, as part of the ongoing ASC-Kinjo Gakuin faculty exchange program, where he lectured on “Intellectual Property Rights: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Business Ethics.” In August 2003 McCann began a new project, cosponsored by the USPES organization, investigating the meaning and practice of business ethics among Chinese Christian executives in Silicon Valley where he has so far done 34 indepth interviews.
He has presented a preliminary report on his findings to the Agnes Scott faculty in a March 2004 lecture, “Business Ethics: Chinese AND Christian.” In August 2004, McCann was the recipient of a Fulbright Summer Travel Fellowship that allowed him to join a group of professors organized by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for a month of travel/study of China's economic and social development in Gansu and Xinjiang Provinces as well as in the rapidly modernizing major cities of east China: Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Guangzhou.
In 2006-2008 McCann was granted a two-year leave by Agnes Scott College in order to assume a position as visiting professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University.