|
|
about search site map editors donate contact help |
|
|
On-Line Moderators
John A. Dick, now retired from the University of Leuven
(Louvain), is a former staff member at the Catholic University of Leuven's
European Center for Ethics. He remains Head of LIBISMA - Library for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Marriage - near Brussels. LIBISMA is a private
research and documentation center that has links with the University of Leuven
and the Gregorian University. Prof Dick's academic background includes a
licentiate in the history of theology at the University of Nijmegen, under Edward
Schillebeeckx, on episcopal residency after the Council of Trent, and a
doctorate in the history of theology at Louvain on the Malines Conversations
(Anglican/Roman Catholic dialogue before WWII). His areas of specialization
(and the courses he still teaches) are about religion and values in American
society, religion in North America, and the American Catholic Church. For a
number of years he was Managing Editor of Ethical Perpsectives. Jack, as he
prefers to be called, has five books and numerous articles to his credit, and
lectures extensively in North America and Europe. Email: jdick@chello.be
Jeff Marlett currently serves as assistant professor of
Religious Studies at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Previously he was
visiting assistant professor of Religion at Lyon College in Batesville, AR. He
earned his AB at Wabash College, an MTS at Vanderbilt University Divinity
School, and his PhD from Saint Louis University. His research interests include
American Catholic history, religion in rural America, and New Religious
Movements. He has published articles in Theological Studies, Ecotheology, and
U.S. Catholic Historian, and written book reviews for H-Amrel, H-South, and the
Journal of the American Academy of Religion. His first book, Saving the
Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America , was published in 2002 by
Northern Illinois University Press. Currently he is researching American Catholic
uses of fascist ideology during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a history for
the Catholic Theological Society of America. Email: marlettj@mail.strose.edu
Martin Menke received his B.A. from Tufts University, and his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College. He is Associate Professor of History and
Director of Secondary Social Studies Education at Rivier College in Nashua, New
Hampshire. He specializes in 20th-century German political Catholicism. Email: mmenke@rivier.edu
Michael O'Sullivan has a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He defended his dissertation, "Persevering Piety and Declining Devotion: Popular Catholicism, Secularization, and Everyday Religion in Western Germany, 1918-1965," in April 2006. He has published an article about Catholic youth in the Catholic Historical Review. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Marist College. Email: michael.osullivan@marist.edu
Elizabeth Tomlinson, who earned her B.A. degrees in Religious
Studies and English, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from The University of Montana, is
a writer whose poetry, articles, and reviews have been published in the United
States and in Europe. In 2005, she delivered papers at the (Re)Imagining Gender
and Race conference at Seattle University's Center for the Study of Justice in
Society, and at the Foundation of Freedom conference at the University of
Portland's Garaventa Center for Ethics and Culture. She is writing a spiritual
memoir based on her extensive research on the racist right, within the context
of Catholic theology, and is compiling an oral history of Monsignor Denis Patrick
Meade, a missionary priest to Montana. Her research interests are
totalitarianism, the roots of racism, Catholicism in the American West, the
poetry of meditation, and the Catholic Reformation. Email: elizabeth.tomlinson@gmail.com
Deborah Vess is a Professor of History and
Interdisciplinary Studies at
Book Review Editor
Patrick J. Hayes earned master's degrees in education (Ed.M)
at Columbia University and in theology at Yale Divinity School (M.Div., S.T.M.)
and his doctorate at the Catholic University of America. His dissertation was a
history of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs,
1945–1965. While pursuing doctoral studies, Hayes worked for the Secretariat
for Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Institute
for Advanced Catholic Studies, and as interim associate director of Collegium:
A Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Life. He has taught at several Catholic
institutions of higher learning. His research interests have focused on
Catholic ecclesiology, including the papacy and the Second Vatican Council, as
well as more popular forms of religious identity construction. Hayes has
published articles and reviews in the fields of Catholic social thought,
ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, church history, sacraments, and
liturgy. He is presently a contributor to a three-year study entitled Passing
on the Faith, Passing on the Church, which is sponsored by the Curran Center
for American Catholic Studies based at Fordham University. He is also working
on a book on nineteenth century miracle narratives in America. Email: phayes@fordham.edu
Web Page Editor
Richard Lebrun, who retired from the Department of History of
the University of Manitoba in 1998, is now Professor Emeritus at St. Paul's
College (University of Manitoba). He is a specialist on eighteenth-century
French intellectual history. His publications include numerous book reviews in
various journals and on the H-Catholic and H-France lists, books and articles
on Joseph de Maistre, and translations of Maistre's writings. He was the editor
of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association's journal, Historical
Studies, from 1998 to 2004. Email: lebrun@cc.umanitoba.ca
| ||||
