Full Time Faculty
Departmental Faculty
Departments: Biblical | Historical | Pastoral | Theological | Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Biblical Department
John S. Kloppenborg, BA, MA, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor, Chair of Department and Centre for the Study of Religion
Synoptic Gospels; Q Document; Social Description of Earliest Christianity
john.kloppenborg@utoronto.ca
John L. McLaughlin, BA, MA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
(Research Leave 01-07-2008-30-06-2009)
Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Ugarit; Israelite Origins; Ancient Israelite Religion; Pre-exilic Prophets; Wisdom Literature; Psalms; Hebrew Poetry
Cross-appointed to the Graduate Faculty, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
johnl.mclaughlin@utoronto.ca
Colleen Shantz, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor
New Testament Social World, Social Scientific Approaches, Early Christian Religious Experience
c.shantz@utoronto.ca
Historical Department
Pablo Argárate, BTh, MPhil, PhD (Buenos Aires), DTheol (Tübingen)
Associate Professor, Director of the Eastern Christian Studies Program
Patristics and Historical Theology; Early Christianity; Liturgy; Spirituality
Cross-appointed to Theological Department.
pablo.argarate@utoronto.ca
Martin Dimnik, csb, BA, MA, MDiv, DPhil (Oxford)
Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Kievan Rus, 9th to 13th century; History of Medieval Slavs in the Balkans
martin.dimnik@utoronto.ca
Mark McGowan, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Professor, Principal and Vice-President (Academic), St. Michael’s College
Canadian Catholic History; Catholic Social Teaching; Religion and Culture
mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca
T. Allan Smith, csb, BA, MA, MDiv, DTheol (Erlangen)
Associate Professor, Associate Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
History, Spirituality and Theology of Eastern Christianity; Monasticism; Russian Theology
Cross-appointed to Theological Department.
allan.smith@utoronto.ca
Pastoral Department
Anne Anderson, csj, RegN, BA, MHA, MA, DMin (Regis College/UT)
Associate Professor, Interim President, Dean of Theology, Director of Israel Programs
Jewish - Christian Studies; Pastoral Ministry; Pastoral Theology
anne.anderson@utoronto.ca
Mario O. D' Souza, csb, B.A.(Hons), MEd, MDiv, CAES, PhD. (Toronto)
Advanced Degree Director, Associate Professor Religion and Education
Philosophy of Education, Catholic Educational Theory, Culture and Education
Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT
mario.dsouza@utoronto.ca
Christian McConnell, BA, BTh, MA, PhD (Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor
Pastoral Theology, Liturgical Studies
christian.mcconnell@utoronto.ca
Maurice Restivo, csb, BA, MDiv, STL, STD (Pontifical Gregorian)
Adjunct Faculty
Pastoral Theology, Homiletics
maurice.restivo@utoronto.ca
Cora Twohig-Moengangongo, BA, MEd, STB, MDiv, STL, ThD (Regis/UT)
Sessional Lecturer, Interim Field Education Director
Systematic Theology; Theological Foundations and Conversion; Theology and Religious Education
cora.twohig.moengangon@utoronto.ca
Theological Department
Michael Attridge, BA, MA, STL, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor, Basic Degree Director
Systematic Theology; Christology; Vatican II
michael.attridge@utoronto.ca
Jacqueline Brunning, PhD (Toronto)
Adjunct Faculty
Logic and Contemporary Philosophy
brunning@chass.utoronto.ca
Lee F. Cormie, BA, MA, PhD (Chicago)
Associate Professor
Christian Ethics; Systematic Theology and Social Sciences; Liberation Theologies; Feminist Theologies
lee.cormie@utoronto.ca
Darren Dias, OP, Hons. BA, M Div, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Assistant Professor
Systematic Theology, Religious Diversity, Lonergan Studies
darren.dias@utoronto.ca
Moira M. McQueen, LLB, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Sessional Lecturer
Christian Ethics; Sexuality and Marriage
Executive Director, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Centre
moira.mcqueen@utoronto.ca
Margaret O’Gara, BA, MAR, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor, Systematic Theology; Ecumenism; Rahner; Ecclesiology
margaret.ogara@utoronto.ca
Dennis Patrick O’Hara, DC, ND, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael’s)
(Research Leave: 01/07/2008 to 31/12/2008 & 01/07/2009 to 31/12/2009)
Assistant Professor, Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty for the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto
Ecological Ethics; Christian Ethics; Theology and Ecology; Spirituality and Ecology
dennis.ohara@utoronto.ca
Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Dan Bahat, BA, MA, PhD (HebrewUniversity)
Professor, Sessional Lecturer in Toronto
Biblical Archaeology
dan.bahat@utoronto.ca
Allon Goshen-Gottstein, PhD (Hebrew University)
Professor
Jewish Theology
David Ilan, BA, MA, PhD (TelAviv University)
Associate Professor
Biblical Archaeology
davilan@ccsg.tau.ac.il
Pesach Schindler, BA, M.S., PhD (New York University)
Professor
Jewish Theology
Emeritus Faculty
William H. Irwin, csb, BA, MA, STL, SSD (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
Professor emeritus
Old Testament; Biblical Hebrew Poetry; comparative Northwest Semitic; Biblical Spirituality
bill.irwin@utoronto.ca
Ellen M. Leonard, csj, BA, MA, PhD (St. Michael’s)
Professor emerita
Christology; Ecclesiology; Feminist Theology; Theology of Religious Life; Roman Catholic Modernism
ellen.leonard@utoronto.ca
Mary Ellen Sheehan, ihm, BA, MA, STB, STL, STD (Louvain)
Professor emerita
Theology of Ministry; Feminist Theory and Theology
maryellen.sheehan@utoronto.ca
Michael Vertin, BA, STB, MA, STL, PhD (Toronto)
Professor emeritus
Philosophy of Theology; Theological Foundations of Multi-disciplinary Studies
michael.vertin@utoronto.ca
Administration & Staff
Chancellor
The Most Reverend Archbishop Thomas Collins
Interim President
Anne Anderson, csj
Bursar
Peter Venton
Dean of the Faculty of Theology
Anne Anderson, csj
Student Services Officer
Mohra Taylor
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
Cicily Tang
Director of Advanced Degree Programs
Mario O. D’Souza
Director of Basic Degree Programs
Michael Attridge
Interim Director of Theological Field Education & Ministry Formation
Cora Twohig-Moengangongo
Director of The Israel Program
Anne Anderson, csj
Director of The Eastern Christian Studies Program
Pablo Argárate
Director of The Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology
Dennis Patrick O’Hara