Department of Philosophy

Title
Director of the Center for Thomistic Studies

Education

• Ph.D.,University of Toronto, 1982
• M.S.L, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1976
• M.A., University of Toronto, 1972
• B.A., Whitman College, 1971

Experience

Teaching

• 1978   1986   Niagara University, NY (Asst. Professor 1978- 84; Assoc. Professor 1984-1986)
• 1987   University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas (Visiting Asst. Professor 1989; Asst. Professor 1989-1991; Assoc. Professor 1991-1997; Professor 1997-)

Recent Publications:

• “Owens, Joseph, CSsR” in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, v.2, 874-6.
• “Topsy-Turvy: The Problem of Providence in Aquinas’ Commentary on Job.”  In St. Thomas and the Problem of Evil: Choice, History, & Providence.  Proceedings of the American Maritain Association, 2011.

Recent Lectures & Papers:

• “’Out of the Fullness of Contemplation’: The Fate of Aquinas’ Innovations to the Concepts of the Vita Contemplativa and the Vita Activa.”  For the 2010 South-Central Renaissance Conference.  Exploring the Renaissance: An International Conference, Corpus Christi, TX, 18-20 March 2010.
• “The Authority of Women in the Church: An Historical Perspective.”  keyntoe Speech, 4th Biennial General Assembly of the Galveston-Houston Archiocesan Council of Catholic Women, St. Mary Church, La Porte, TX (April 24, 2010).
• “Catherine of Siena’s Vision of the Life-Saving Bridge” for 3rd Annual Zambosco-Thomas Colloquium: In Dialogue with St. Catherine of Siena & Florence Nightingale (February 22, 2011).
• “Thomas Aquinas and the Triumph of “Womanly’ Courage.” For the Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy Lecture, Manhattanville College, 07 April 2011.

• "The Authority of Women in the Church: An Historical Perspective." Keynote Speech, 4th Biennial General Assembly of the Galveston-Houston Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, St. Mary Church, La Porte, TX, 24 April 2010.

Research Areas

• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Ethics
• Medieval Logic