RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Read about where our faculty and graduate students have recently been published or featured as speakers, or the topics of their newest books.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras (Oxford University Press, 2023), a book by Kerry P. C. San Chirico, PhD, associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies, explores the surprising rise of worshippers who blur the lines between Christianity and Hinduism. San Chirico examines the beliefs and practices of Khrist Bhaktas, or devotees of Jesus, as well as members of the Catholic order who seek to share Jesus, Mary and other significant figures of the faith with those interested, demonstrating a degree of 鈥減orousness鈥� between Hinduism and charismatic Catholicism.
In his most recent book, Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence, Christopher B. Barnett, DPhil, professor of Theology and Religious Studies at 澳门二分彩, explores the influence of Dylan鈥檚 work through the lens of Danish Philosopher and Theologian S酶ren Kierkegaard. By establishing a theoretical approach to Dylan鈥檚 multifaceted compositions, the book helps readers better understand his music and its significance today.
This 800-page volume of The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II 鈥� edited by Villanova Professor Massimo Faggioli, PhD, and Catherine E. Clifford (Oxford University Press, 2023) 鈥� offers a rich source of information and reflections on many aspects of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), one of the most significant religious events of the twentieth century. The chapters introduce readers to the historical context and outstanding features of the conciliar event, and its principal teachings on Scripture and Tradition, the church, liturgy, religious liberty, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, church-world relations, and mission.
View recent publications and talks by our faculty and graduate students in the lists below. To see more works, visit the faculty websites listed under full-time faculty. The research interests of our doctoral students and candidates can be viewed on PhD Student Profiles.
Gerald Beyer, PhD, professor
Just Universities | Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education, Fordham University Press, 2021. Read more.
Timothy Brunk, PhD, associate professor
鈥淓cumenism and Roman Catholic Eucharist,鈥� chapter in T & T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality (Bloomsbury, 2023).
The Sacraments and Consumer Culture, Liturgical Press, 2020.
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Jesse Couhoven, PhD, affiliated faculty
鈥淲hy Christians Should (Still) be Compatibilists,鈥� in Theological Perspectives on Free Will, ed. Aku Visula and Ollie-Pekka Vainio. Taylor and Francis, 2023, 27-46.
Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, professor, Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair鈥�
The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole. Orbis Books, 2023.
Religious and Cultural Implications of Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-Pandemic World. Robert Nicastro, Noreen Herzfeld (eds.), Lexington Books, 2023.
鈥淓xtending the Noosphere into Intergalactic Life Teilhard de Chardin and the Third Axial Age鈥� (pp. 415- 434) in Astrophilosophy, Exotheology and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe. Contemporary Whitehead Studies.
"Why Technology is Our Future" (pp. 209鈥�238) in Religious and Cultural Implications of Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-Pandemic World. Lexington Books, 2023.
The Primacy of Love, Fortress Press (US) and Dalton, Todd, Longman (London). January 2022. Read more.
John Edwards, PhD, affiliate faculty
James Alison and a Girardian Theology: Conversion, Theological Reflection, and Induction, T&T Clark Academic/Bloomsbury Press, May 2020.
Massimo Faggioli, PhD, professor
The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, co-editor with Catherine E. Clifford, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2023.
Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States, Bayard Inc., 2021. Read more.
Kathryn Getek Soltis, PhD, assistant professor
Co-authored a chapter on prison abolition in the new Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics (Routledge, 2023).
Nathaniel Grimes, doctoral candidate
Co-authored a chapter on prison abolition in the new Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, Routledge, 2023.
Jennifer Constantine Jackson, ThD, associate teaching professor
鈥淥n Wizards, Hobbits, Saints and Friendship in Fratelli Tutti鈥� in Gestures of Grace: Essays in Honour of Robert Sweetman. Ed. Joshua Harris. Wipf and Stock, December 2023. 138-166.
鈥淩evisioning Friendship and Spirituality in an Age of Social Media鈥� in Religious and Cultural Implications of Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post Pandemic World. Ed. Ilia Delio, Noreen Herzfeld and Robert Nicastro. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, June 2023. 71-96.
Jaisy Joseph, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淢arked by 2020: Disorientation and Reorientation in a Pandemic Age,鈥� book chapter in Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age, Georgetown University Press, 2023.
Stefanie Knauss, ThD, professor
Religion in Representations of Europe: Shared and Contested Practices. Baden-Baden: Nomos, w/ Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria (eds.), 2023.
Vincent Lloyd, PhD, professor
鈥淭he Virtues in Black Theology鈥� chapter in Shakespeare and Virtue, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Co-authored a chapter on prison abolition in the new Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, Routledge, 2023.
Black Dignity: the Struggle Against Domination, Yale University Press, 2022. Read more.
Joseph Loya, OSA, PhD, associate professor
Easter Together: An Ecumenical Exploration for a Common Date, Eastern Christian Publications, Annandale, VA. June 2023.
Robert Nicastro, doctoral candidate
Co-editor of Religious and Cultural Implications of Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-Pandemic World. Lexington Books, 2023.
Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淎pocryphal Within the Canonical: Unorthodox Influence on the New Testament Textual Transmission,鈥� in Daniel B. Wallace et. al., eds., Pen, Print & Pixels: Advances in Textual Criticism in the Digital Era (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2023), pp. 203鈥�222.
Kerry P. C. San Chirico, PhD, associate professor
Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras (Oxford University Press), 2023. Read more.
鈥淏ridging, Crossing and Transgressing: Interreligious Studies and Interfaith Engagement in the Catholic University,鈥� chapter with Julia Sheetz, in Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, Georgetown University Press, 2022.
Rachel J. Smith, PhD, associate professor
"Keeping Time: Performing Eternity in Henry Suso's The Life of the Servant." In Gestures of Grace: Essays in Honour of Robert Sweetman (Wipf & Stock, 2024), pp. 105-118.
Jonathan Yates, PhD, professor
Co-edited The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Christian North Africa. Volume 2: Augustine鈥檚 Confessions to the Arab Conquest (400 C.E. to 650 C.E.). DeGruyter, 2023.
鈥淭he Gospels and the Catholic Epistles鈥� chapter in The Oxford Handbook on the Pelagian Controversy, Oxford University Press, 2023.
鈥淧olemics in a Pastoral Guise: Scripture in Five North African Epistulae of 416 CE鈥� chapter in The Pelagian Controversy and its Aftermath. Leuven University Press, 2022.
Gerald J. Beyer, PhD, professor
"La teolog铆a acad茅mica necesita poner orden en su propia casa," Concilium: Revista internacional de Teologia, 403 (Noviembre 2023): 113-127 (also published in Italian, German, French and English).
"NATO Expansion After 1989: An Argument from the Catholic Social Tradition," Theological Studies Vol. 85, No. 1 (2024): 162-89.
"La teolog铆a acad茅mica necesita poner orden en su propia casa," Concilium: Revista internacional de Teologia Vol. 403, No. 5 (Noviembre 2023): 113-127 (also published in Italian, German, French and English).
Timothy Brunk, PhD, associate professor
Regular contributor to Pray Tell: Worship, Wit & Wisdom blog. a log of his articles.
鈥淓cumenism and Roman Catholic Eucharist,鈥� chapter in T & T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, professor, Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair鈥�
鈥淔alling Inward, Falling Upward: God, Self and the Liberation of Love鈥�, Oneing: An Alternative Orthodoxy, Center for Action and Contemplation vol. 11, n. 2 (2023).
"Teilhard's Scientific Holism: A Reply to David Sloan Wilson," Religion, Brain and Behavior (Routledge, 2023).
"Transhumanism and Transcendence," in Cambridge Companion to Religion and AI, eds. Fraser Watts and Beth Singler (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
After Science: Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology book review. Cambridge University Press, 2022 in The Heythrop Journal (March 2023).
Joseph Evans, doctoral candidate
鈥�.鈥� Co-Author: Sr. Ngoc Nguyen, LHC. Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. Vol. 3, No. 1 (May 2023): 1-18.
Hamid Dabashi, The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West, University of California Press, 2022. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2022), Villanova, PA.
Massimo Faggioli, PhD, professor
Regular contributor to and
"Notes on Prophecy and the Ecclesiology of Synodality from the Second Vatican Council to Today", in Irish Theological Quarterly, 88(4) 2023, pp. 308-322.
"The Need for the Historiographical Approach to Understand and Address the Sex Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church", in Doing Theology and Theological Ethics in the Face of the Abuse Crisis, eds. Daniel Fleming, James Keenan, SJ, and Hans Zollner, SJ, Journal of Moral Theology No. 3, 2023 (CTWEC Book Series, No. 3), pp. 265-280.
"Synodality and the Appointment of Bishops: Issues and Proposals from Vatican II to Global Catholicism Today", in Reforming the Church - Global Perspectives, edited by Declan Marmion and Salvador Ryan, Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 2023, pp. 52-66.
Kathryn Getek Soltis, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淧neumatology, Restorative Justice, and Prison Abolition,鈥� with Nathaniel Grimes and Vincent Lloyd, in The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics (Routledge), 2022.
鈥淭en Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom,鈥� with Sarah Jobe, Nathaniel Grimes, Vincent Lloyd, Jason S. Sexton, and Mary Beth Yount, Political Theology.
Nathaniel Grimes, doctoral candidate
鈥淧neumatology, Restorative Justice, and Prison Abolition,鈥� with Kathryn Getek Soltis and Vincent Lloyd, in The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics (Routledge).
Macrina Magazine, January 2022.
Stefanie Knauss, ThD, professor
鈥淚mages of Pain, Images of Hope: African Films as Narrative Theologies of Gender and Sexuality,鈥� Exchange 52 (2023), pp. 34-53.
鈥淔estivals of European Film and Their Image of Europe: Religious Complications,鈥� In: Knauss, S.; Pezzoli-Olgiati, D. (eds.), Religion in Representations of Europe: Shared and Contested Practices. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2023, pp. 351-388.
鈥淓ncounters among Strangers: Bodies, Marys, Art,鈥� In: Pryor, R./Burns, S. (eds.), Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 171-177.
Vincent Lloyd, PhD, professor
鈥淥n Domination and Abuse: Thinking with Augustine鈥� in Augustine and Ethics, ed. Sean Hannan and Kim Paffenroth, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
鈥淟ove, Judgment, and Antisemitism: The Case of Alice Walker鈥� in The King Is in The Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Politics, ed. Julie Cooper and Sam Brody, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
鈥淩ace and the Philosophy of Religion鈥� in Philosophy of Religion after 鈥淩eligion鈥�, ed. Michael Rodgers and Richard Amesbury, Mohr Siebeck, 2023.
鈥淲hat Life Is Not: Aim茅 C茅saire as Phenomenologist of Domination,鈥� for 鈥淎fricana Philosophy鈥� special issue ed. Bado Ndoye, Delia Popa, and James Vernon, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2023.
鈥淐hristianity and Racial Justice,鈥� in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, Oxford University Press, edited by Rafael Domingo Osle and John Witte, Jr., 2023.
鈥淐harisma鈥� in Democracies in America, edited by Greg Laski and Bert Emerson, Oxford University Press, 2023.
Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, PhD, assistant professor
"Was Salome at the Markan Tomb? Another Ending to Mark's Gospel." Comparative Oriental Studies Manuscript Bulletin 8:2 (2022): 401-20. 2023.
鈥淪igns of Mary Magdalene in John 11鈥� in Christian Century, November 2023.
Luke Roberts, doctoral student
Book review of Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology by Kevin W. Hector (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023), Modern Theology, January 2024.
Ethan Schwartz, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淭he Theological Pretension of the Ethical: Reframing the Jewish Significance of Genesis 22,鈥� Interpretation, 2023.
鈥淔irst-Person Narration and the Poetics of Theophany in the Deuteronomic Horeb Account,鈥� Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2023.
鈥淛osiah鈥檚 Reform and the Question of Personal Implication in Systemic Wrongs,鈥� Journal of Jewish Ethics, 2023.
Laura Simpson, doctoral candidate
"On Transdisciplinary Possibility: An Interstitial Exploration of American Religious History and Religious Ethics", Journal of Religious Ethics, July 2023.鈥�
Rachel Smith, PhD, associate professor
"Keeping Time: Performing Eternity in Henry Suso's The Life of the Servant." In Gestures of Grace: Essays in Honour of Robert Sweetman (Wipf & Stock, 2024), pp. 105-118.
Perdian Tumanan, doctoral student
"Rethinking Martyrdom Theology: A Reflection on Shusaku Endo鈥檚 Silence" in the book anthology A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence.
H茅ctor Varela Rios, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淚n defense of Latinx: a theological microintervention鈥� in Why Can鈥檛 We Wait: Racism and the Church, Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, and Elisabeth T. Vasko, eds., College Theological Society Annual Volume 68, Orbis Books, May 2023.
Stephanie Wong, PhD, assistant professor
鈥淵u Bin and Vincent Lebbe鈥檚 Theology of Resistance: Catholic Participation in the Chinese War Effort Against Japan.鈥� In Modern Chinese Theologies Volume 1: Heritage and Prospect, 109-130. Edited by Chloe Starr. Fortress Press, 2023.
鈥淩oman Catholicism: Painting, Printing and Selling Morality in Modern China.鈥� In Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution, 185-200. Edited by Daryl Ireland. Baylor U. Press, 2023.
"Chinese Christian Theology." In St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023.
Jonathan Yates, PhD, professor
鈥�Vt non simus homines: Augustine鈥檚 Exhortations against Lying in his Sermones ad Populum,鈥� Augustiniana 71/1 (2021): 7-26.
Gerald J. Beyer, PhD, professor
鈥淩einvigorating Social Justice Programming at Catholic Colleges and Universities,鈥� keynote address, Seton Hall University, May 31, 2023.
Timothy M. Brunk, PhD鈥�, associate professor
鈥淭he Liturgy and the Land鈥�, meeting of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission, Collegeville, MN, July 2023.
鈥淭alking to Parents about First Penance and First Communion鈥�, meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, Cincinnati, OH, October 2023.
鈥淐onsumerism, Liturgical Formation, and the Child鈥� (to be part of a published volume), Contours of Wonder: Romano Guardini and Liturgical Formation Conference, Notre Dame University, November 2023.
Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, professor, Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair鈥�
鈥淐an Science Alone Advance the Noosphere? Understanding Teilhard鈥檚 Omega Principle鈥�, N2 conference: The Future of Human Collective Consciousness, University of California Berkeley, November 2023.
鈥淐an God be Updated? Lessons from Science鈥�, God 2.0 Conference on Pantheism and Quantum Reality, Center for Christogenesis, December 2023
鈥淭he Divine Milieu of Therese of Lisieux鈥�, Carmelite Federation, January 2024 (online).
鈥淒eep AI: Mind, Matter, and Planetary Life鈥�, Adrian Dominicans, February 2024 (online).
March 18, 2024: "Brave New Church: Artificial Intelligence, Faith and the Future of Christian Life鈥�, Macon Lecture, DeSales University, March 2024.
鈥淲hy AI Needs Spirituality鈥�, Aspen Chapel, Aspen, CO, April 2024.
Interview on NPR podcast, "", August 2023.
Joseph Evans, doctoral candidate
鈥淚nterreligious Considerations for the Role of Women in the Asian Church,鈥� Pope Francis and the Future of the Catholic Church Conference, St. Mark鈥檚 College, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2023.
Massimo Faggioli, PhD, professor
"The 鈥淪ynodal Process鈥� in the USA and in the Global Church: A Geography of Hope" at the conference of the AUSCP, University of San Diego (San Diego, CA), June 2023.
"The Catholic conflict over Vatican II and its implications for relations with the Jews". Lecture at the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at St. Joseph鈥檚 University (Philadelphia), September 2023.
Opening lecture "Que reste-t-il de Vatican II? Sexisme, racisme, crise des abus et tradition catholique"of the 芦Francqui Chair 2023禄, Universit猫 Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, October 2023.
"The Synod. An early assessment of the 2023 assembly in Rome", lecture hosted by the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin, November 2023.
Sharon Gutkowski, doctoral candidate
Presented 鈥淏eing and Becoming Dokimoi: An Analysis of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34鈥� at the 85th International Meeting of The Catholic Biblical Association at Creighton University for being named the 2023 Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) Verbum Emerging Scholars Fellow.
Timothy Hanchin, PhD, associate professor
Presented Catholic Higher Education at Our Lord鈥檚 Tomb: Toward a Pedagogy of Holy Saturday in Our Age of Contempt at The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis: Gender, Race, Abuse and the Living Catholic Tradition, 澳门二分彩, December 2023.
Vincent Lloyd, PhD, professor
鈥淭his Nation Under God?鈥�, United Lutheran Seminary, 2023.
Keynote lecture, Koinonia Graduate Student Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2023.
"Pursuing Justice in Toxic Times,鈥� Drumwright Lecture, Baylor University, 2023
鈥淎bolitionism: Religious Criticism or Secular Criticism鈥�, Gates Lecture, Grinnell College, 2023.
Jaisy Joseph, PhD, asssistant professor
Keynote speaker, 鈥淩ace, Racism, and the Tensions of Unity and Difference: How Resistance to Anti-Semitism among the Council Fathers can Inspire Catholic Anti-Racism in a Global Church鈥� at The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis: Gender, Race, Abuse and the Living Catholic Tradition, 澳门二分彩, December 2023.
Keynote speaker, 鈥淏etween Ecclesiology and Ethnography: Studying the Continued Reception of Vatican II鈥� at 60 years Vatican II: The End of the Western Church?, KU Leuven, November 2023.
Presented at and participated in a conference of theologians and bishops, "The Way Forward: Pope Francis, Vatican II, and Synodality," at Boston College, March 2023.
William Kuncken, doctoral student
Presented "Vatican II and the Birth of Ecological Ecumenism: Examining the Conciliar Foundations for the Church鈥檚 Response to Environmental Crisis" at The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis: Gender, Race, Abuse and the Living Catholic Tradition, 澳门二分彩, December 2023.
Vincent Lloyd, PhD, professor
鈥淭his Nation Under God?鈥�, United Lutheran Seminary, 2023.
Keynote lecture, Koinonia Graduate Student Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2023.
"Pursuing Justice in Toxic Times,鈥� Drumwright Lecture, Baylor University, 2023
鈥淎bolitionism: Religious Criticism or Secular Criticism鈥�, Gates Lecture, Grinnell College, 2023.
New Books Network podcast caught up with Dr. Vincent Lloyd to discuss his book "" (Yale University Press, 2022), September 2023.
Interview with Yale Center for , Feb. 2023.
Kerry P. C. San Chirico, PhD, associate professor
Panel Organizer and Presider, 鈥淐hristianity through Hindu Categories: Christianity as dharma, m膩rga, samprad膩ya, pa峁卼h,鈥� Society for Hindu-Christian Studies; Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2023.
鈥淓mbodiment in the Christian Life.鈥� Orthodox-Pentecostal Academic Dialogue: Seventh Meeting. American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2023.
In this New Books Network podcast, Dr. San Chirico is interviewed on the subject of Indian religions and his book "" (Oxford University Press, 2023) which details the Khrist Bhaktas devotees of Jesus in the heart of Hindu civilization; September 2023.
Ethan Schwartz, assistant professor
Presented the Possibilities and Limits of 鈥淒ei Verbum鈥� for Jewish-Catholic Dialogue: Academic Biblical Studies as a Shared Theological Question at The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis: Gender, Race, Abuse and the Living Catholic Tradition, 澳门二分彩, December 2023.
Trevor Williams, doctoral candidate
Presented converting to Crisis: A Reflection on the Sex Abuse Scandal and Christian Initiation at The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis: Gender, Race, Abuse and the Living Catholic Tradition, 澳门二分彩, December 2023.
Stephanie Wong, PhD, assistant professor
Holy See [Dicastery of Interreligious Dialogue and the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations], International Conference on Women Building a Culture of Encounter Interreligiously: "Interreligious Encounter: Insights from the Dialogue of the Samaritan Woman and Jesus in John 4" (Jan. 2023)
Yale University, Yale Divinity School, Bartlett Lecture: "Understanding the Divine from an East Asian Perspective" featuring Stephanie Wong, Peng Yin and Haruka Umetsu Cho, (March 2023).
澳门二分彩, Fides Quarens Symposium on "Hospitality and the Impossible" 鈥淭he Ethics of Hospitality: Responsiveness in Personal and Institutional Encounters鈥� (April 2023).
Professor Gerald Beyer 澳门二分彩 2023 VERITAS Faculty Research Program Award for 鈥淭he Ethics of NATO Expansion.鈥� CLAS Summer 2023 Virtual Global Course Exchange Grant for Virtual Exchange with the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Professor Timothy Brunk received, with Dr. Christiane Lang Hearlson, a four-year, $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. Their effort, 鈥淭he Children, Liturgy and Ecology Project,鈥� will explore the connection between Christian liturgical formation, love for the natural world and children鈥檚 lived experience. More.
Professor Jesse Couenhoven Veritas Award for outstanding faculty scholarship, 澳门二分彩, Fall 2023. Awarded partly in recognition of the successful conclusion of Jesse鈥檚 鈥淐ollaborative Inquiries in Christian Theological Anthropology鈥� grant ($4,700,000/2020-23). Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, (and Villanova, Notre Dame, and 12 other colleges).
Professor Ilia Delio, OSF Elected in 2023 to serve on the , The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Professor Massimo Faggioli Recipient of the 2023 芦 Francqui Chair 2023 禄, awarded by the Francqui Foundation (Belgium), with an invitation to hold a four-lecture course on synodality (in French) at the Francqui Chair at the Universit猫 Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), October-November 2023.
Sharon Gutkowski, doctoral candidate, was selected as a 2023 Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) Verbum Emerging Scholars Fellow.
Professor Christiane Lang Hearlson received, with Dr. Timothy Brunk, a four-year, $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. Their effort, 鈥淭he Children, Liturgy and Ecology Project,鈥� will explore the connection between Christian liturgical formation, love for the natural world and children鈥檚 lived experience. More.
Lang Hearlson was also the inaugural recipient of a new 2023 award, the Grace Adolphsen Brame Trust Faculty Award, which she earned for her work in teaching Christian spirituality courses and for her mentorship of graduate students.
Professor Jaisy Joseph received a 2025 Louisville Institute First Book Grant for Scholars of Color which awards sabbatical grants up to $40,000, funded by the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment.
Professor Vincent Lloyd was named a 2024 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation which recognizes and awards monetary prizes to trail-blazing fellows across 52 fields. Dr. Lloyd's prize was awarded in the category of Intellectual & Cultural History. More.
Lloyd also received a grant from the Enlightened World Foundation, with Michael Moreland (Charles Widger School of Law, 澳门二分彩).
Tekoa Robinson, doctoral student, was awarded a 2023 Villanova Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship and also won the 2023 Hong Kierkegaard Summer Research Fellowship.
Perdian Tumanan, doctoral student, was selected as one of the Roothbert Fund Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Tumanan was also the recipient of the three best papers award submitted at the 2022 鈥�Lumen et Vita鈥� conference at Boston College in March 2022, for his paper 鈥淩eclaiming the Agency of Nature in Modern Technological Advancement and Ecological Apocalypse.鈥�
Professor H茅ctor Varela Rios Named Raquel and Alfonso Mart铆nez-Fonts Endowed Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies, September 2023.
Professor Stephanie Wong was selected for the 2024-25 non-residential Seminar Fellowship on Global Catholicism, sponsored by the St. Louis U. Center for Research on Global Catholicism. The research group, involving eight scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and areas of focus, will be developing projects related to the theme of "New Directions in Research on Global Catholicism: Mobilities, Migrations, Circulations." Wong's project will explore the development and transnational usage of Chinese ancestor veneration ceremonies in diasporic Chinese Catholic parishes.
Trevor Williams, doctoral candidate, was named the inaugural recipient of the Mann Endowed Fellowship for Research Promise to recognize doctoral student achievement, granted by the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in Fall 2023. Williams also won first place in the Scripture & Theology Essay Competition held by the Wycliffe Centre for Scripture and Theology, and the Founder鈥檚 Circle Prize for first place from the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.
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