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NEWS AND EVENTS
Doctoral Students Attend Dissertation Boot Camp
During the week of June 1 graduate students participated in the second annual "Dissertation Boot Camp," an annual event sponsored by the Graduate School. This grant-funded, weeklong event allows students to intensely focus on their dissertations, whether
they are nearing completion and need a bit of a push to finish up, are in the middle of writing, or are still at the stage of conceptualizing. It makes for a week filled with hard work and camaraderie.
During the event housing and meals are provided, as well as faculty mentors who are available to offer guidance. Last year's total attendance reached seventeen, and of those six have already graduated. This year twenty students attended. Theology had the largest contingent of "privates" at the camp, eight in all, pictured below.
Back row L-R: Travis Stolz, Pamela Shellberg, Mark Chapman, Charles Cortwright, and Abraham Fisher. Front row L-R: Paul Caldwell, Michael Matossian, and Anthony Bonta.
Another Boot Camp in June...
During the week of June 22 "Dissertation Boot Camp Light", a streamlined version of the regular boot camp, will take place. For more information on the Dissertation Boot Camps contact Mr. Craig Pierce,
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and Director of Graduate Admissions.
Rev. Bryan Massingale President of CTSA
The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) met for its sixty-fourth annual convention June 4-7, 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The meeting was attended by about 350 participants from around the globe. At the convention's conclusion the President-Elect, Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, was installed as the new CTSA President. Massingale is associate professor of theology at Marquette University. For additional information about Rev. Massingale, click here.
The CTSA is the principal association of Catholic theologians in North America. With over 1300 members, it is the largest professional society of theologians and religious scholars in the Catholic Church. Information about CTSA can be found at http://www.ctsa-online.org/.
Congratulations to our May Graduates
Religious Studies PhD
Jack D. Kilcrease, III, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “The Self-Donation of God: Gerhard Forde and the Question of Atonement in the Lutheran Tradition”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Ralph Del Colle
Louis W. Oliverio, Jr., Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account”
Dissertation Director: Rev. Philip J. Rossi, S.J.
Theology Master of Arts
Janine L. Adkins
Timothy J. Cavanaugh
Raymond J. Foyer
David J. Larsen
Gregory W. Merow
Paul G. Monson
Eric M. Vanden Eykel
Juliana V. Vazquez
Theology Master of Arts in Christian Doctrine
Jennifer L. Shedd
