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Susan Windley-Daoust is a tenured Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
After nine moves in 18 years throughout the American South, Panama, and (most oddly) New Jersey, Dr. Susan Windley-Daoust attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia for her bachelor's degree, and then received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After teaching in the Theology department at the University of St. Thomas for five years, she has been part of the full-time faculty at St. Mary's since 2002, teaching systematic and moral theology. She has recently published in the field of Christianity and Social Justice: an article in The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, and sidebar articles on Catholic Social Teaching for the St. Mary's Press College Study Bible. She also co-chairs the "Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace" academic group for the American Academy of Religion.
She is married to Jerry Windley-Daoust, a free lance writer and editor for a number of Catholic publications. They have three young children: Benjamin, Maria, and Julia. She enjoys praying and working with the Winona Catholic Worker community, reading, avoiding cold weather, and uninterrupted sleep.
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Susan Windley-Daoust Ph.D.
Office location:
Saint Marys Hall 223D
Mailing Address:
Saint Mary's University
of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights #1450
Winona, MN 55987-1399
Telephone: 507-457-1995
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Scholarly and Creative Interests
Systematic theology, especially theological anthropology and theologies in cultural context; Catholic Social Teaching (especially war and peace issues); the Catholic Worker movement, service learning
Courses Taught Recently at SMU
Bible and Belief
Fundamental Theology
Christian View of the Human Person
Catholic Social Teaching
Catholic Moral Theology
Christology
Foundations in Theology
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
Co-chair of “Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace” Group
Co-chair of “Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace” Consultation
Catholic Theological Society of America
Theological Anthropology section
Theological Anthropology section planning committee
Gabriel Marcel society
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1998
M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1991
B.A., Mary Washington College, 1989
Teaching Experience
2003 to Present: Assistant Professor of Theology, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
2001 to 2003: Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
1996 to Present: Assistant Professor of Theology, The University of St. Thomas
1993 -1995: Teaching Assistantships, Vanderbilt University
Other Professional Experience
Resident scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's University, 1996
Honors
Resident Scholar at The Institute of Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St. John's University,1996
Fellowship Award: Collegium Summer Institute on Faith and the Intellectual Life,1994
John H. Smith Scholarship,1992-1993
Graduate School Tuition Scholarship, 1989-1992
Honors in Religion,1989
Outstanding B.A. Graduate in Religion,1989
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research Award,1988 |
Selected Presentations
“Why Consciousness-Raising Doesn't Work: Virtue Theory as ‘First Moment’ Pedagogy in the Social Justice Classroom,” American Academy of Religion annual meeting, November 21, 2006
“Liberation Theology: Faith and Reason for Social Justice in Latin America,” public lecture in Winona State University’s Faith and Reason series, October 4, 2005
“Just War theory and Invading Iraq,” lecture and forum at Saint Mary’s University, with Drs. Steve Schild and David Lynch, Spring 2003
Respondent to Francis Clooney’s "In the Light of Her Face: Hindu Goddess Worship and Human Nature--What Christians Can Learn from It," The Catholic Theological Society of America, June 1999
“The Way We Learn is the Way We Do Theology? A rethinking of lex orandi, lex credendi: subjectivity, experience, and praxis,” Voice and Vocation Conference, St. John’s University-Collegeville MN, March 1999
“’Attachment’ and Active Non-Violence: a relational image of God,” National American Academy of Religion, November 1998
“Beyond a Neo-Platonist Imago Dei: Catholic phenomenology and classical doctrine,” Upper Midwest AAR, April 1998
“Who has the ‘Catholic Identity’? Marcel’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Struggles with Identity, Catholicity, and Catholicism,” Upper Midwest AAR, April 1996
“’It Takes One to Know One’: Knowledge of God and the Imago Dei,” public lecture for the Institute of Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Collegeville, MN, March 1996
"Powers, Principalities, and Omnipotence: phenomenologically discerning powers divine and demonic," Southeastern AAR/SBL meeting, Mar 1995
"A Voice for the 'Contemporary Real'? Interreligious Dialogue And Karl Rahner's Theological Anthropology," Southeastern AAR/SBL meeting, Mar 1993
Publications
“Just War and Pacifism” and “Participation in Society” sidebar articles for the College Study Bible, Saint Mary’s Press, anticipated publication in 2007
’Putting Our Bodies On The Line’: Comparing Embodied Active Nonviolence in Engaged Buddhism and Christian ‘Body Theology’,” The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies (Vol. 15, No. 2), Fall 2006 (peer-reviewed)
“Reflection on Marcel and the Image of God.” Gabriel Marcel society newsletter, Fall 2004
Book: The Redeemed Image of God: Embodied Participation in the Unknown Divine, University Press of America, January 2003
Book review: Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Cynthia Crysdale, and Deceiving the Devil: Atonement, Abuse, and Ransom, by Darby Kathleen Ray, Pro Ecclesia, Winter 2001
Book review: Christian Education in the Catholic Tradition, edited by Patrick Carey and Earl Muller, in Teaching Theology and Religion, Jun 1999
Book review: The Image of God: Gender Models in Judaeo-Christian Tradition, edited by Kari Borreson, in Pro Ecclesia, Summer 1998
Article: "Success, Shame, and Illusion: American Christianity and the God of Death Denial," Christian Scholar’s Review, Fall 1996 (peer-reviewed)
Book review: Boundaries of Our Habitations: Tradition and Theological Construction by Delwin Brown in Religious Studies Review, Jan 1995
Book review: Narratives of a Vulnerable God by William C. Placher in Religious Studies Review, Oct 1994 |
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