Rev. Timothy Backous, OSB, STD - The Church and Moral Issues  
tbackous@smumn.edu

Timothy Backous, OSB has been a monk of St. John's Abbey since 1979.  He grew up in South Dakota and attended St. John's University where he earned a BA in English in 1976.  At the Alphonsianum in Rome, Italy, he was awarded a License and Doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1989.  since returning home, Timo has also been a part of the Residential Life program at Saint John's, living with the students as a faculty resident and serving as the Coordinator of the program.  For nine years, he was the Director of Campus Ministry and for five years worked as Athletic Director for the University.  In July 2006 he become the new head of School for St. John's Preparatory School, the oldest private secondary school in Minnesota.  He also serves on the pastoral staff for St. Mary's Basilica in Minneapolis.  This is his 17th consecutive year at Saint Mary's which he now considers his summer home.  

Mary Williams Bambenek, MA - Coordinator of Graduate Programs  
mbambene@smumn.edu

Mary joins the University after a six year period of service as the Editorial Development Administrator, Submissions Coordinator and Lasallian Animator for our on-campus neighbor, Saint Mary's Press.  Mary is a graduate of the Master of Arts Program in Human Development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and recently completed a three-year certificate program from the Lasallian Leadership Institute, sponsored by the Midwest District Office of Education and Formation.  A Winona native, Mary graduated from Cotter High School and received her undergraduate degree as a non-traditional student from Winona State University in Communications and Human Resources.  Prior to joining the Press, Mary served as the Operations Director for Bluffview Montessori School, a Minnesota State Charter School, and as a Graduate Assistant, Hall Director and Director of Residence Life for our Winona campus. 

  
Rev. William M. Becker, STD - Christ Yesterday and Today   
wbecker@smumn.edu   

Father Bill is a native of the Diocese of Winona and was ordained a priest there in1988.  He obtained a BA in Philosophy and Classical Humanities from Saint Mary's College in Winona in 1979, and further degrees in theoloty from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (STB, STL, STD) culminating in a doctorate in 1994.  He has taught in the theology department at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota both as a part-time adjunct (1994-96) and a full-time assistant professor (1998-2001), as well as in the Institiute in Pastoral Ministires.  He has also served as associate pastor or pastor in four different parishes, as a theological consultant to the Bishop of Winona, as a censor librorum for Saint Mary's Press, and in seminary and chancery adminstration for the Diocese of Winona.  In his spare time he collects and studies flags of the world. 

Sister M. Dominica Brennan, OP, MA, JCL - Canon Law 

Sister Dominica has served as Chancellor for Canonical Affairs and Director of the Office of Conciliation for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis for the past twelve years. Particular areas of involvement have included policy development and formation, issues regarding property and sacramental law, incardination procedures, archdiocesan relationship with religious congregations, and administrative disciplinary processes. Through her work in the Office of Conciliation she facilitates conciliation and arbitration cases, in which persons who believe they have been mistreated by Church authority are given an opportunity to seek an equitable resolution. Sister Dominica is a member of the Canon Law Society of America. She served as a consultor on its Board of Governors from 1996–1998, and as Treasurer from 2005–2007. Earlier ministry included teaching at the secondary and undergraduate levels, liturgy, and internal governance within her Congregation, the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois.

Eileen M. Daily, JD, PhD - Christian Spiritualities    
edaily@smumn.edu

Eileen Daily moved to Winona in 2002 after a lifetime in New England.  After practicing law for 9 years she entered the master's-degree program in Pastoral Ministry at Boston College and has never looked back.  Her doctoral studies in religion and education focused on using Christian art in religious education settings.  She received her PhD from the Insititue of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College in 2001.  Eileen enjoyed an editorial position with Saint Mary's press before becoming a full time member of the Theology Department at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in the fall of 2004.  She has authored a resource for high schools and parishes called Beyond the Written Word: Exploring Faith Through Christian Art, available from Saint Mary's Press. 

Annmarie DeMarais, MA - Associate Director  
ademarai@smumn.edu

Annmarie DeMarais has been involved in parish ministry for over twenty years. She holds an MA in Pastoral Ministries from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Before seeking graduate theological and pastoral training, she was employed in the healthcare field, holding an undergraduate degree from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and a professional certificate in physical therapy from the Mayo School of Health-Related Sciences. Professionally, Annmarie most recently served as pastoral associate for the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Parish and then Saint Mary's Parish, both in Winona. Annmarie has extensive experience with lay board leadership and is presently the chair of the Winona Diocesan Catholic Charities Board of Directors. Her passions in ministry include family spirituality, baptism preparation and celebration, parish leadership formation and practice, and the call to collaboration in all areas of ministry. Annmarie and her husband Tom live in Winona and have six children: Matt (22), Ben (21), Jacob (17), John (12), Tim (9), and Ceili (5). Journeying with them along life's pathway is her full-time vocation – working with IPM is just for fun! 

Rev. Paul L. Golden, CM, JCD - Canon Law  

Father Paul is the director of Vincentian Canonical Services which he founded in 1999. Through this agency he offers canonical education and advocacy to religious, priests and lay ministers. He holds a Masters of Divinity from DeAndreis Seminary in Illinois, a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Gregorianum in Rome and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Angelicum in Rome. A Vincentian priest, Father Paul has been teaching canon law since 1968. He served as Rector/President
of St. Thomas Theological Seminary in Denver, vice-president of DePaul University, and President of Niagara University. He is currently a trustee of two Catholic universities. He has authored numerous monographs and annually publishes several canonical advisory opinions. In the late 1980s he was elected President of the Canon Law Society of America that honored him in 2005 with its annual Role of Law Award. Father Paul is an adjunct professor of theology at Regis University in Denver and teaches canon law with Loyola University New Orleans, University of Dayton as well as with Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Father is a member of national and international commissions for religious institutes and he travels extensively to give workshops and seminars to clergy and other pastoral ministers.

Jeffrey Hefel, MBA - Pastoral Management and Administration 
jhefel@smumn.edu

 Jeff Hefel is Professor of Business, having taught Management, Marketing, International Business, and Economics courses at Saint Mary's Unviersity for the past 19 years.  His primary focus in management is Human Resources.  He is a Brother Charles Severin Award Recipient for Excellence in Teaching and a five-time member of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.  He and his family are active members of Saint Mary's Parish, Winona.  

 
Peggy Johnson - Writing Center    
pjohnson@smumn.edu

Peggy Johnson has served as Director of the Writing Center at Saint Mary's University's (Winona Campus) and instructor in the College's English Department for the past 11 years.  She is currently writing her dissertation for her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  She has published 10 articles and has given 13 conference presentations, all of which have centered on her professional specialities of teaching writing and writing center theory or her work with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.  She became an FSPA affiliate in 2003, a hospice volunteer in 2000 and a Center Lutheran Church lay minister in 2006.  She is very involved in social justice issues and takes a keen interest in Lasallian studies.  Peggy lives in Winona with her three children and enjoys jogging, reading, and riding her motorcycle in her spare time. 

Diana Macalintal, MA - Liturgist    
dmacalin@smumn.edu

Diana Macalintal is the Director of Worship for the Diocese of San Jose and holds a Mater of Arts in Theology with honors from Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.  She has served as a liturgist and music director in campus, parish, and diocesan ministries for over 20 years and has authored articles on litury and music in Modern Liturgy, Ministry & Liturgy, Pastoral Music, Eucharistic Ministries, Parish Life, AIM, and Today's Parish.  In 2003, she received the Tabat Scholarship from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.  She is a team member of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate, a keynote speaker, workshop presenter, and liturgy director for national conferences, and a cantor and liturgical composer.  She maintains a blog for the Diocese of San Jose called Work of the People.

Thomas Marpe, MBS, EdD - Pastoral Public Relations, Marketing, and Philanthrory      tmarpe@smumn.edu

Tom Marpe is a tenured Associate Professor of Business at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.  He has been teaching at Saint Mary's since 1995.  His primary focus is teaching marketing and research courses.  Tom's research area is the relationship of parishioner satisfaction and financial contributions to Catholic parishes.  Tom and his wife Cathy, a Mayo Clinic employee, live in Rochester, and have two daughters, ages 22 and 17.

Lawrence Price, JCL, JD - Canon Law for Pastoral Ministers, Canon and Civil Law for Pastoral Administrators     
lprice@smumn.edu

Mr. Price received a BA in Mathematics and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami.  He is a member of the Florida Bar and licensed to practice law in state and federal court.  He was a Judge Advocate with the U.S. Air Force for six years.  Following this, he was on the faculty of the University of Maryland-European Division and taught comparative law for the University of Trier School of Law in Germany.  During this time he also studied theology through the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Trier. After matriculating to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, he received a Licentiate in Canon Law. Since 1998 he has been an ecclesiastical judge for the Diocese of Winona and is Director of the Tribunal. He serves as an advocate for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He was an editor for The Tribunal Handbook: Procedures for Formal Matrimonial Cases (Canon Law Society of America, 2005). He is a secular Franciscan. His wife Diana is a school librarian and children Amelia and Sam are in local Catholic schools.

Sister Judith K. Schaefer, OP, PhD - Sacraments     
jschaefe@smumn.edu

Sister Judy is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, and Chair of the Theology Department, where she teaches Systematic and Pastoral Theology.  Her professional areas of interest are lay ministry, pastoral concerns, and issues of dialogue and collaboration.  She has served on parish teams and staffs across the country, and has taught religious education and theology in a variety of settings.  Prior to coming to Saint Mary's University, she served in formation ministry for her religious congregation, the Sinsinawa Dominicans.  Judy is originally from Denver, Colorado, and enjoys the mountians, hiking, biking, and canoeing. 

Jenny Olin Shanahan, MDIV, LMFT - Human Relations in Ministry    
mshanaha@smumn.edu

Jenny Olin Shanahan is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, with specialities in the teaching of writing and American literary and ethnic studies (particularly African American and Chicana/o literature).  She also teaches ancient and modern literature and philosophy in SMU's Lasallian Honors Program and serves as a writing consultant for graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.  Jenny earned her doctorate at Marquette University in 2000.  Her forthcoming book, Researching and Writing in Action, guides "action researchers," such as those implementing an IPR project, through the stages of the process.  She is excited to share what she has learned along the way with IPR advisees.  Jenny and her husband Michael (a member of the IPM faculty) love spending time with their very active, very funny boys, Sean (6) and Brendan (2), riding bicycles, telling knock-knock jokes, and reading lots of Harry Potter and just about every bood about race cars, rockets, snakes, and sharks. 

Michael Shanahan, MDiv, LMFT - Human Relations in Ministry    
mshanaha@smumn.edu

Micheal Shanahan is a licensed and practicing Marriage and Family Therapist in Winona, Minnesota, and teaches in the Master of Education program at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.  He received his Bachelor of Arts in theology from Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska and his Master of Divinty degree at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, where he was also trained as a spiritual director.  He has also worked in campus ministry and served as pastoral associate for a large subruan parish in Wisconsin.  Michael and his wife Jenny (a member of the IPM faculty), have two young boys.  Michael enjoys family events, camping, walks in the woods, bicycling, and playing guitar. 

Geralyn Sharpe - Graduate Programs Specialist
gsharpe@smumn.edu

Geri Sharpe is responsible for the public relations, marketing and website content for the IPM program as well as three other graduate programs housed on the Winona Campus. Geri holds a BA in Economics from Winona State University. She comes to the University from the financial sector where she served as an Economic Research Consultant to the city of Rochester as well as a Commercial Credit Analyst with a local community bank. Geri’s position at Saint Mary’s marks a return to the field of public relations and marketing , having served as the Public Relations and Marketing Director for Cotter High School and the Winona Area Catholic Schools from 1999 to 2003. Geri enjoys running, reading and spending time with family and friends. 
 

Brian Singer-Towns, MTHS - Scripture    
bsinger@smumn.edu

Brian Singer-Towns has twenty-five years of parish, diocesan, and national experience in pastoral ministry.  He has the unusual educational background of a BS in Electrical Engingeering as well as a Maters of Theological Studies from St. John's Provinicial Seminary in Detroit.  Brian has spent the last ten years as a development editor at Saint Mary's Press, the Christian Brothers publishing ministry.  Among his many projects at Saint Mary's Press he was the driving force and general editor behind The Catholic Youth Bible, Breakthough!  The Bible for Young Catholics, and principal author and general editor of The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth.  He is also a popular presenter at regional and ntional conferences in the areas of Scripture, youth ministry, and adolescent catechesis.  Brian and his wife Betty, a full-time parish pastoral minister, live in Winona with their two sons, ages 22 and 19.

Rev. Daniel Smilanic, JCD - Canon Law

Fr. Dan Smilanic was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1973. After 11 years in pastoral work, he was sent to Rome to study Canon Law. He received a Doctorate in Canon Law with a specialization in Jurisprudence from the Gregorian University. He has worked in the Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and is presently the Adjutant Judicial Vicar. In 2003 he was appointed the Cardinal’s Delegate to the Review Board and the Promoter of Justice in penal cases for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He teaches canon law at the archdiocesan seminary, St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois. He has worked nationally on canon law issues and in October of 2007 he was elected Vice-President/President-elect of the Canon Law Society of America. Dealing with various canonical issues, he has edited a book, written articles, given talks and consulted in various situations. His areas of particular interest and experience are: judicial and quasi-judicial processes in canon law, the jurisprudence of curial offices and advocacy.

Gregory Sobolewski, PhD - Program Director, Ecclesiology    
gsobolew@smumn.edu

Greg Sobolewski is a tenured Professor of Theology at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He has taught in the Institute of Pastoral Ministries since 1994 and become the institute's director in 1996. He was an invited participant in the U.S. bishops' national consultations on Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord (2005), as well as contributing writer for the "Proposed Foundational Document on Lay Ecclesial Ministry" that informed this document. His book Martin Luther, Roman Catholic Prophet was published in 2001 by Marquette University Press. Greg completed a PhD in historical theology at Marquette in 1993, preceded by graduate studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has served two terms as Chair of the Theology Department at Saint Mary's (1994–1997, 2000–2003) and was a Director of Religious Education in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (1979–81). He was honored as the Brother J. Robert Lane Endowed Chair in Humanities for 2003–2006. He was elected to the executive committee of the Association for Graduate Programs in Ministry for 2001–2003. He advises Saint Mary’s University in the University Council for Lasallian Formation and Mission. He is an evaluator for the Minnesota Catholic Education Association State Certification Review Board. Greg and his wife Susan, a lead-nurse in obstetrics as Mayo Clinic, have three children, David (24), Amy Marie (21), and John (18).

Teresa Speck, CMA, CFM - Pastoral Accounting and Finance    
tspeck@smumn.edu

Teresa Speck is a Professor of Business at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, where she has taught accounting and other quantitative business courses since 1985.  She has accounting employment and consulting experience with several not-for-profit organizations.  She is a Certified Management Accountant and Certified in Financial Management and has a special interest in health care financing.  Teresa and her husband Fritz, are members of Saint Casimir's parish in Winona, where she serves on the finance council.  When she is not working with numbers, she enjoys quilting and following the Minnesota Twins. 

 
Jami Spitzer - Administrative Assistant    
jspitzer@smumn.edu

Jami was born and raised in Winona.  She is married and has two children.  In 1990 she graduated from Winona Techinical College's medical secretary program.  she was employed by Mayo Clinic-Rochester for 12 years.  In November 2005 she joined the School of Graduate and Professional Programs at Saint Mary's University.  She enjoys traveling with family and volunteering at her children's school. 

Christopher Walchuk, MA - Social Action for Pastoral Ministers    
cwalchuk@smumn.edu

Christopher Walchuk is the parish administrator at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Mankato, Minnesota.  Ss. Peter and Paul is a leader in social justice ministries in Southern Minnesota, and Chris brings extensive experience in nonprofit development and management, Catholic social teaching, and adult education to his work.  Chris holds a Master's degree in Pastoral Ministry from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, a Master of Arts in Teaching (English) from Mankato State University, and a certificate in nonprofit management from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul).  Chris has previously served as the founding director of New Focus, a biblically based financial literacy program, co-founder and finance officer for Theresa House homeless shelter, adjunct professor in education at Minnesota State University, Makato, and Associate Chaplain at Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital.  Chris enjoys playing the trombone and the guitar and is an avid racquetball player.  Chris and his wife Mary, who is an editor for scientific publications, have four children who are all better musicians than their father. 

Jerry Windley-Daoust, MA - Integrated Pastoral Research    
gwindley@smumn.edu

Jerry Windley-Daoust spent six years as an editor for Saint Mary's Press, a publisher of Catholic resources for young people, before leaving that position to care for his children (Benjamin, Maria, and Julia).  Currently, he is a parti-time freelance editor and writer.  He has published three books with Saint Mary's Press, with another to be released in spring of 2007.  He has a degree in journalism from the Univeristy of Minnesota (BA ,1992) and a degree in pastoral ministry from Saint Mary's University (MA, 2003).  He looks forward to staying involved in the Institute for Pastoral Ministry by advising students preparing their IPRs. 

Susan Windley-Daoust, PhD - Foundations in Theology    
swindley@smumn.edu

Susan Windley-Daoust is an assistant professor of theology at Saint Mary's University, and had previously taught five years in a tenure-track position at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul).  Her particular research interests are theological anthropology and the universal church in context, particularly in Latin America.  Her degrees are from Mary Washington College (BA, History and Religion) and Vanderbilt University (MA, PhD, Theology).  Professor Windley-Daoust has published an article, five book reviews, and most recently, a book: The Redeemed Image of God: Embodied Participation in the Unknown Divine, University Press of America (2003).   She has also presented six papers at regional and national academic conferences, and is currently the co-chair of the "Religions, Social Conflict and Peace" Group in the American Academy of Religion.  She is a member of St. Mary's Parish, Winona, and a part of the larger Winona Catholic Worker prayer and volunteer community.  She enjoys family life with her husband, Jerry Windley-Daoust, and their children, Benjamin, Maria, and Julia.