Rev. Victor Austin, a priest in the Episcopal Church, holds a Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University. His dissertation was a study of the uses of Christ in the social encyclicals of John Paul II. He has published A Priest’s Journal (Church Publishing, 2001) and edited The Anglican, a quarterly journal of the Anglican Society. His articles appear in the Anglican Theological Review, Sewanee Theological Review, and Mid-Stream. He was assistant professor of religious studies, philosophy, and theology at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, Pennsylvania. Presently he is theologian-in-residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, in New York City. E-mail: vaustin@mybluelight.com.
Elizabeth R. Baer serves as professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she holds the Florence and Raymond Sponberg Chair of Ethics. During fall, 2004, Dr. Baer held the position of the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She edited, with Myra Goldenberg, Experience and Expression: Women, the Holocaust and the Third Reich, (Wayne State University Press, 2003), an anthology of essays. She is coeditor, with Hester Baer, of the first English edition of The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women, a memoir by Nanda Herbermann, a Catholic woman arrested for her work in the resistance in Nazi Germany. Dr. Baer also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches a course entitled “Women and the Holocaust: Gender, Memory and Representation.” She was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the summer of 2000 to study the history of Jews in Germany. E-Mail: ebaer@gac.edu.
Deborah M. Cerullo, S.S.N.D, is a School Sister of Notre Dame since 1985, a native of Rhode Island, and received her J.D. from Boston University Law School in 1980. She was assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, for five years. In addition, she spent six years as an attorney in both secular and faith-based poverty law clinics in Boston. She later earned a J.C.L. (masters degree in canon law) summa cum laude at the University of St. Thomas in Rome, Italy. Her thesis concerned the associate movement. She has taught civil and canon law at University of Notre Dame and Boston College Law School and published numerous articles on religious life, the lay associate programs, and public benefits for members of religious institutes. Work for her own congregation has included chairing the committee that oversaw the merging of two provinces. E-Mail: srcerullo@lawdme.necoxmail.com.
Sheila Devereux, R.S.M. (Omaha), born and raised in Iowa, has been a Sister of Mercy for more than fifty years, thirty-four of which were spent as an elementary school teacher and administrator in Kansas City, Missouri, Colorado, and California. She received a B.A. from Mt. Mary College in Milwaukee, and holds an M.A. from Catholic University of America. She served two terms on her provincial leadership council. Presently she is vice president for mission services at Mercy Hospital Sacramento, director of associates for the Omaha Regional Community, and director of Mercy Volunteer Corps in the West. E-Mail: DEV2ER7EUX@aol.com.
Therese Di Lisio (Associate, Brooklyn, N.Y.) is a doctoral student at Union Theological Seminary (New York City) doing interdisciplinary work in systematic theology, theological ethics, and worship. She has been an Associate in the Brooklyn Community since 1999. She is Episcopalian. E-Mail: td71@columbia.edu.
Mary Kathryn Grant, Ph.D., (Associate, Detroit) is the executive director of the Conference for Mercy Higher Education, a network of the eighteen colleges and universities of the Sisters of Mercy. She has extensive experience in Catholic health care and education focusing on sponsorship, mission and leadership development, culture, and change management. E-Mail: marykathryngrant@aol.com.
Toni Perior Gross (Associate, Detroit) has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1981. She took first promises as a Mercy associate in l983. She is married to Francis L. Gross, Jr and had two sons, Joseph and Matthew. She attended Our Lady of Mercy High School in Detroit and Mercy College of Detroit, with a B.A. in l962. She completed an M.A. and then the Ed.D. at Western Michigan University in counseling psychology. Previously she taught high school, math, science, and religion courses for nine years. From 1957 to 1969 she was a member of the Sisters of Mercy.
Katherine Hill, R.S.M. (Detroit) has an M.A. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto, Canada. She received a certificate of advanced studies in spirituality and spiritual direction from the Institute of Spiritual Leadership in Chicago, Illinois. Presently, she is in the doctoral program at Chicago Theological Seminary for a D.Min. with emphasis on spirituality and spiritual leadership. She is also studying with the Grand Rapids Dominicans in the second phase of their spiritual formation program. She has served in administration and leadership positions for the Detroit Regional Community and formerly taught religious studies and served as campus minister in secondary schools. E-Mail: kahillrsm@aol.com.
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