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Faculty Publications

Below is a list of Ave Maria University faculty members who published peer-reviewed articles and/or books, edited works, presented papers at academic conferences, gave invited lectures in academic settings, gave musical performances, or received special academic honors or fellowships during the 2007 calendar year.  Lectures given on campus, works in progress or in press, non-peer-reviewed publications, consulting work, or attendance at meetings are not included.

COLIN BARR (HISTORY)

 

REVIEW:

Sheridan Gilley, ed., Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays presented to Vincent Allan McClelland.  Irish Historical Studies, 139 (2007) 422.

PRESENTED PAPERS:           

 Imperium in Imperio: Irish Episcopal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century.” Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand; The Irish-Australia Conference at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, October 2007.

PAUL BAXA (HISTORY)

 

ARTICLES:

“Capturing the Fascist Moment: Hitler’s Visit to Italy in 1938 and the Radicalization of Fascist Italy.”  Journal of Contemporary History 42/2 (2007) 227-242.

“A Pagan Landscape: Pope Pius XI, Fascism, and the Struggle over the Roman Cityscape.”  Journal of the CHA 2006 Revue de la S.H.C.  New Series, 17 (2007) 107-124.

JOSEPH BURKE (ECONOMICS)

 

PRESENTED PAPERS:           

“Benedict’s Reflections on Economics” and “Distributive Justice and Subsidiarity: The Firm and the State in the Social Order.”  The Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Convention, New York, October 26-27, 2007.

SARAH BYERS (PHILOSOPHY)

 

ARTICLE:           

“Augustine on the ‘Divided Self’: Platonist or Stoic?” Augustinian Studies 38/1 (2007) 105-118.

PRESENTED PAPERS:           

“Preliminary Joy in De Civitate Dei 16.”  American Philosophical Annual Meeting, January 2007.

Confessiones 8.11.26-7: Stoic Epistemology in Augustine’s Theory of Motivation.”  University of Toronto Conference on Augustine’s Confessions, March 2007.

“Solving the Riddle of Confessions 8.27.”  Cornell University Summer Colloquium on Medieval Philosophy, May 2007

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP:

Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.  2006-2007 Academic Year.

JORGE Alberto CALVO (MATHEMATICS)

 

PRESENTED PAPERS:           

“The Mathematics of Knotting and Linking in Polymer Physics and Molecular Biology.”  Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), May 20-25, 2007.

TRAVIS CURTRIGHT (LITERATURE)

 

ARTICLE:           

“Shakespearean Personalism.” LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought 10/1 (2007) 56-79.

REVIEW:

Russ McDonald, Shakespeare’s Late Style.  Sixteenth Century Journal (2007).

PRESENTED PAPERS:           

“Thomas More’s Mother Wit and Samuel Johnson’s Wisdom.”  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Boston University, Masters of Prose: Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill, July 9-27, 2007.

“‘A Good Mother Wit’: Thomas More’s Presentation of the Liberal Arts in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies.”  2007 Thomas More Conference, Center for Thomas More Studies, November 2-4, 2007.

DAVID G. DALIN (HISTORY AND POLITICS)

 

ESSAY IN BOOK:

“John Paul II and the Jews.”  John Paul II and the Jewish People.  David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007) 15-36.

CO-EDITED BOOK:

John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue.  David Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007).

BOOK IN TRANSLATION:

Eli mito del Papa de Hitler: Cómo Pío XII salvo a los judíos de los Nazis.  Madrid, Spain: Ciudadela Libros (2007).

INVITED LECTURES:

“John Paul II and the Jews.”  St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas; Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of San Francisco, California. 

“Pius XII and the Jews.”  University of San Francisco, California; Institute for Christian Spirituality, Seton Hall University, New Jersey; Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP:           

Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  2006-2007 Academic Year.

MICHAEL DAUPHINAIS (THEOLOGY)

 

CO-EDITED BOOKS:

Aquinas the Augustinian.  Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering, eds. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press (2007).

Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship: Studies in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb.  Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, eds.  Naples, FL: Sapientia Press (2007).

BARRY DAVID (PHILOSOPHY)

 

CO-EDITED BOOK:

Aquinas the Augustinian.  Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering, eds. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press (2007).

PRESENTED PAPER:

“Thomistic Metaphysics, Eucharist, and Providence.”  Aquinas and the Sacraments, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, Ave Maria, Florida, February 1-3, 2007.

ANDREW DINAN (CLASSICS AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE)

 

ARTICLE:

“The Mystery of Play: Clement of Alexandria’s Appropriation of Philo in the Paedagogus (1.5.21.3-22.1).”  The Studia Philonica Annual 19 (2007) 59-80.

PRESENTED PAPER:

Ainigma and Ainittomai in the Works of Clement of Alexandria.”  The 15th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, August 2007.

MARIA FEDORYKA (PHILOSOPHY)

 

ARTICLE:

“A Metaphysics of Love and Embodiment: Abortion as the Retroactive Destruction of the Spousal Act.”  Life and Learning XVII: The Proceedings of the Sixteenth University Faculty for Life Conference (2007).

INVITED LECTURE:

 “Edith Stein and the Vocation to Love.”  “The Edith Stein Project: Toward Integral Healing for Women and Culture,” University of Notre Dame, Indiana, February 2007.

PRESENTED PAPER:

“A Metaphysics of Love and Embodiment: Abortion as the Retroactive Destruction of the Spousal Act.”  University Faculty for Life, Seventh Annual Meeting, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, June 2007.

Lawrence Feingold (Pastoral Theology)

 

PRESENTED PAPER:

“Man as Imago Dei and Capax Dei: Man's Specific Obediential Potency for Grace and Glory.”  Habits of Mind Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 2007.

SR. GERTRUDE GILLETTE, O.S.B. (THEOLOGY)

 

PRESENTED PAPER:

“Why Anger and Friendship are Aligned in Cassian’s Conference 16.”  The Oxford University Patristic Conference, August 2007.

MARC GUERRA (THEOLOGY)

 

ARTICLE:           

“Leo Strauss and the Recovery of the Theologico-Political Problem.”  The Political Science Reviewer (2007).

“Orestes Brownson Revisted.”  Perspectives in Political Science (Winter 2007).

REVIEW:           

Peter Augustine Lawler, Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future.  Society (March/April 2007).

EDITOR:

Guest editor for Perspectives in Political Science.  Symposium Issue on Orestes Brownson (Winter 2007).

PRESENTED PAPER:

“The Catholic University in a Pluralist Society.” American Political Science Convention, Chicago, Illinois, September 2007.

INVITED LECTURES:

“The Nature of Nature in Natural Law” and “Is Aquinas’ Natural Law the Declaration’s ‘Law of Nature and Nature’s God’?”.  Assumption College, May 2007.

“Good and Bad DeHellenization.”  Assumption College, September 2007.

“Democracy and the Encumbered Self: The Ascent from Individualism.”  Belmont Abbey College, October 2007.

“Regensburg and the Rejection of Political Theology.”  Georgetown University, November 2007.

Timothy Herrman (Pastoral Theology)

 

INVITED LECTURE:

“The Rise of Nominalism and its Impact on Christian Anthropology.”  Habits of Mind Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 2007.

JEREMY HOLMES (THEOLOGY)

 

ESSAY IN BOOK:

“St. Thomas’s Commentary on Phil 2:5-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes.”  Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship: Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb, Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, eds.  Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press (2007) 109-141.

Translation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s ‘Die Heilige Schrift’ with Introduction and Notes.”  Nova et Vetera 5/4 (2007) 707-724.

REVIEW:

Romanus Cessario, OP, A Short History of Thomism.  The Catholic Historical Review 93/2 (April 2007) 393-395.

REV. MATTHEW L. LAMB (THEOLOGY)

 

BOOK:

Eternity, Time and the Life of Wisdom.  Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press (2007).

ESSAY IN BOOK:

“Eternity Creates and Redeems Time: The Theology of History in St. Augustine.”  Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays Presented to the Rev. Robert Crouse, M. Treschow, W. Otten, W. Hanna, eds.  Leiden & Boston: Brill (2007) 117-140.

“The Millenial Ressourcement for Vatican II’s Renewal.”  After Forty Years: Vatican Council II’s Diverse Legacy, Kenneth Whitehead, ed.  South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press (2007) 165-174.

“Augustine and Aquinas on Eschatology.”  Aquinas the Augustinian, Michael Dauphinais, Barry David and Matthew Levering, eds.  Washington, DC: The Catholic University of American Press (2007) 167-189.

INVITED LECTURES:

“Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Lecture and Nominalism.”  Eichstätt, Germany, June 2007.

“Christianity as Transpolitical.”  St. John’s Seminary, Boston, MA, October 2007.

MATTHEW LEVERING (THEOLOGY)

 

BOOKS:

Ezra and Nehemiah: A Theological Commentary.  Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press (2007).

CO-EDITED BOOKS:

Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship: Studies in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb.  Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, eds.  Naples, FL: Sapientia Press (2007).

Aquinas the Augustinian.  Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering, eds. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press (2007).

John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue.  David Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007).

ARTICLES:

“Christ the Priest: An Exploration of Summa Theologiae III, q. 22.”  The Thomist 71 (2007) 379-417.

“St. Thomas Aquinas and William Abraham.”  New Blackfriars 88 (2007) 46-55.

ESSAYS IN BOOKS:

“John Paul II, Maimonides, and Aquinas: Reflections on Divine Providence.”  John Paul II and the Jewish People.  David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007) 95-112.

“Hierarchy and Holiness.”  Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship.  Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, eds.  Naples, FL: Sapientia Press (2007) 143-172.

“Augustine and Aquinas on the Good Shepherd: The Value of an Exegetical Tradition.”  Michael Dauphinais, Barry David and Matthew Levering, eds.  Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press (2007) 205-242.

REVIEWS:

John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).  Review of Metaphysics 61 (2007) 135-137.

Anselm K. Min, Paths to the Triune God: An Encounter between Aquinas and Recent Theologies. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).  Modern Theology 23 (2007) 304-307.

Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7 (2007) 653-658.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP:

Meyser Junior Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  2006-2007 Academic Year.

PRESENTED PAPERS:

“Principles of Exegesis: Toward a Participatory Biblical Exegesis.”  Presented to the Postgraduate Scripture and Theology Seminar at the University of St. Andrews, January 2008.

“Aquinas and Gersonides on Job.”  Deus Habet Consilium: An International Conference on the Career and Prospects of Providence in Modern Theology,” University of Aberdeen, January 2008.

“The Church as the Image of the Trinity.”  International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007.

“A Preacher’s Vision of the Old Testament: The Case of St. Thomas Aquinas.”  The Fifteenth Annual Aquinas-Luther Conference, entitled “Aquinas and Luther on Preaching the Old Testament,” Lenoir-Rhyne College, October 2007.

STEVEN A. LONG (THEOLOGY)

 

BOOK:

            The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act.  Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press (2007).

INVITED LECTURES:

“Intrinsic Evils and the Idea of Mala in se.”  Marymount College, Loyola, Maryland, 2007.

DAN MAHER (PHILOSOPHY)

 

REVIEW:

Aristotle: Metaphysics Book Theta, translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Stephen Makin.  Bryn Mawr Classical Review (July 2007).

DANIEL NODES (CLASSICS AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE)

 

ARTICLE:

“Platonic Myth and the Begetting of the Divine Logos in Egidio of Viterbo.”  Augustiniana, 57 (2007) 209-221.

REVIEWS:

David H. Price, ed., Phasma. Vol 3, Dramen III, 2 Teil.  Nicodemus Frischlin Sämtliche Werke.  Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog (2007).  Renaissance Quarterly (Summer 2007).

PRESENTED PAPERS:

“A Witness to Theosis Effected: Maximus Confessor on the Lord’s Prayer.”  International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007.

“Platonic Myth and the Begetting of the Divine Logos in Egidio of Viterbo.”  Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 2007.

“Il mito platonico e la generazione del figlio divino a proposito di Egidio da Viterbo.” Congresso Internazionale di Studi Umanistici, Sassoferrato, Italy, July 2007.

ROGER NUTT (THEOLOGY)

 

ARTICLE:

“From within the Meditation of Christ: The Place of Christ in the Moral and Sacramental according to St. Thomas Aquinas.”  Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5/4 (2007) 817-42.

PRESENTED PAPERS:

Configuratio ad Christum: Aquinas on Sacramental Character.”  Habits of Mind Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2007.

“The Conviction of Things Not Seen: Thomas Aquinas on Reason and the Assent of Faith.”  The American Maritain Association, University of Notre Dame, IN, October 2007.

REV. PIOTR M. PACIOREK (CLASSICS AND THEOLOGY)

 

PRESENTED PAPERS:

“The Anthropological Hermeneutic in Patristic Theology.”  The Oxford University Patristic Conference, August 2007.

JOSEPH PEARCE (Writer in Residence, LITERATURE)

 

ARTICLES IN ENCYCLOPEDIA:

“Literature”, “Society in Christian Fantasy”, and “Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich (1911-1977)”.  Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacelli, eds.  Lanhan, Maryland: Scarecrow Press (2007).

INVITED LECTURES:

 In Persona Christi: The Priest in Modern Fiction” and “The Catholic Literary Revival.” Seton Hall University, January 2007.

“C. S. Lewis and the Joyful Intellect.”  C. S. Lewis Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2007.

“Small is Still Beautiful.”  Chesterton Conference, St. Paul, MN, June 2007.

MICHAEL RAIGER (LITERATURE)

 

PRESENTED PAPER:

“The Phenomenological Roots of John Paul II’s Ethos of the Gift.”  Man and Woman He Created Them: John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, An International Symposium, Gaming, Austria, May 2007.

MICHAEL SUGRUE (HISTORY)

 

PRESENTED PAPER:

“Technology and Global History.”  The Medina Seminar, Princeton University, June 2007.

SEANA SUGRUE (POLITICS)

 

INVITED LECTURES:

“Why Does the Erosion of Marriage Hurt Children?” Keynote Address.  Catholic Organization for Life and Family, Ottawa, ON, March 2007.

“Locke, Marriage, and Contemporary Public Policy.”  Hillsdale College, March 2007.

JOSEPH TRABBIC (PHILOSOPHY)

 

PRESENTED PAPER:

“Dawkins, Aquinas, and the Existence of God.”  Habits of Mind Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2007.

SUSAN TREACY (MUSIC)

 

BOOK:

A Plain and Easy Introduction to Gregorian Chant.  Charlestown, WV: Cantica Nova Publications (2007).

PERFORMANCE:

Participation in the Southwest Florida Symphony Chorus, Ft. Myers, Florida.  Under direction of Maestro Joseph Caulkins and Maestro Michael Hall, sang the Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, the oratorio Benedictus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and sections from Handel’s Messiah.  2007.

GREGORY VALL (THEOLOGY)

 

ESSAYS IN BOOK:

“An Epistemology of Faith: The Knowledge of God in Israel’s Prophetic Literature.”  The Bible and Epistemology: Biblical Soundings on the Knowledge of God.  Colorado Springs, CO: Paternoster (2007) 24-42.

“‘Man is the Land’: The Sacramentality of the Land of Israel.”  John Paul II and the Jewish People.  David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering, eds.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2007) 132-168.

REVIEW:

Dariusz Iwanski, The Dynamics of Job’s Intercession.  (Analecta Biblica 161; Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2006).  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69 (2007) 326-327.

DAVID WILLIAMS (LITERATURE)

 

BOOK:

Language Redeemed: Chaucer’s Mature Poetry.  Ave Maria, Florida: Sapientia Press (2007).

ESSAY IN BOOK:

“Folle d’amour, sage d’amour: l’amour de Thecle pour l’apotre Paul,” in Les fous d’amour au moyen age orient-occident.  Claire Kappler, Suzane Thioler-Mejean, eds.  Paris: Harmattan (2007).