Faculty
Daniel G. Di Domizio
Professor
(414) 410-4161
dgdidomizio@stritch.edu
Dan Di Domizio received a doctorate in theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of France), with concentrations in historical theology and spirituality. He has been a full-time professor at Stritch since 1988. He teaches courses in both the undergraduate and the graduate programs in Religious Studies.
Di Domizio currently serves as coordinator of the ecumenical Urban Ministry Program at Cardinal Stritch University. He teaches several of the courses that help prepare men and women for a certificate for ministry in the urban church. He has also published material pertaining to the church's role in the city.
During the summers of the 1990's, Di Domizio taught English in Prague, Czech Republic. Due to this experience he was able to do extensive research and writing in "cultural theology," specifically on the church's role in the secularized culture of this Eastern European country as well as elsewhere in the world.
Di Domizio and his wife enjoy traveling and have participated in two Franciscan pilgrimages in the past several years in Italy, Germany and France.
Michael S. Donahou
Assistant Professor
(414) 410-4743
msdonahou@stritch.edu
Michael Donahou is an associate professor in the Religious Studies department. He received his B.A. in 1985 from Arkansas Tech University, where he majored in English and minored in Philosophy. He completed his master’s degree in Theological Studies from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio in 1991. He wrote his master’s thesis on the “fear of the Lord” in the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He earned his doctorate in Biblical Theology from Marquette University in 2008. He wrote his dissertation comparing the ancient Egyptian practice of cursing enemies to the breaking of the tablets of the Ten Commandments in the Exodus 32 story of the Golden Calf.
Dr. Donahou has over a decade of experience teaching at the high school, college, and graduate school level. He began teaching in 1999 at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Wisconsin and also taught at St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota before coming to Cardinal Stritch University. He is a member of the Catholic Biblical Society and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Coletta Dunn, OSF
Professor
(414) 410-4163
cdunn@stritch.edu
Sister Coletta Dunn, OSF, earned her Ph.D. at Catholic University of America where she did her thesis in the area of religion and psychology. She co-authored several texts in religious education and lectured extensively on moral/religious nurture and curriculum topics. She has been advisor for graduate students in religious studies and ministry for 15 years at Stritch.
She is a member of the Franciscan Center Advisory Committee. She also studied under the Bonaventure scholar, Dr. Ewert Cousins, at Fordham University, where she was able to do research on the Franciscan traditions/controversies in the century following the death of Francis and subsequently present a paper related to these debates at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo. Sister Coletta teaches in the area of religious/ethical principles for health sciences.
Barbara Freres
Assistant Professor
(414) 410-4844
bjfreres@stritch.edu
Barbara Freres is an associate professor in the Religious Studies/Philosophy department. She received her B.A in 1986 from Marquette University, where she majored in history, philosophy, and English. She completed her master's degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 1989 and her Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 1994. She wrote her thesis and dissertation on topics in the area of Thomistic metaphysics.
Since taking a teaching position at Cardinal Stritch University in 2006, Freres has regularly taught Philosophy of the Human Person, Ethics, and Religious/Ethical Principles in Health Science. She serves on the Board of Directors of the University Faculty for Life and is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Her areas of interest and specialization include: ethics, bioethics, St. Thomas Aquinas, and medieval philosophy.
Michelle L. Gilgannon
Assistant Professor
(414) 410-4047
mlgilgannon@stritch.edu
Michelle Gilgannon is a half-time assistant professor of Religious Studies. She received her B.A. in 1992 from Alverno College, where she majored in English, Secondary Education and Theatre. Gilgannon has also worked at Cardinal Stritch University as an administrator in Enrollment Services from 1995-2004 and again from 2008 until the present. She received her M.A. in Religious Studies from Cardinal Stritch University in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University in 2011. Her dissertation was on the liturgical theology of Aidan Kavanagh, OSB. Her area of concentration is liturgical and sacramental theology, but her other interests include ethics, postmodern theology and Christian anthropology. Gilgannon has taught Religious/Ethical Principles in Health Sciences to nursing students for several semesters. She has also taught graduate classes in Christian Anthropology and Trinitarian thought.
Steven C. Kuhl
Associate Professor
(414) 410-4631
sckuhl@stritch.edu
Steven C. Kuhl is associate professor of Religious Studies, teaching in the areas of historical theology, church history, ecumenical and interfaith relations, and theology and science. He holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and a M.Div. from Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis.Prior to coming to Stritch, he taught five years at Saint Francis Seminary.
Kuhl is an ordained pastor in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and represents the Synod on the Unity and Relations Committee of the Wisconsin Council of Churches and on the Milwaukee Area Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission. He is a member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Church History and the Institute for the Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST). He serves as president of The Crossings Community, Inc., an ecumenically diverse, internationally dispersed community of clergy and lay dedicated to "Crossing Faith in Christ with Daily Life."
Kuhl has presented on various topics in parishes and at professional conferences. He has published in multiple venues, including, several of the ITEST Proceedings and the journal Preach. He also writes for the Crossings online Web publications Sabbath Theology (Text Studies) and Thursday Theology (a Weekly Theological Commentary on Issues in Church and World), and, in 2005, co-edited and contributed to the Crossings Publication, Gospel Blazes in the Dark: A Festival of Writing Sparked in Honor of Edward H. Schroeder.
Stephen J. Lampe
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Instructor of Foreign Language
(414) 410-4620
sjlampe@stritch.edu
Stephen J. Lampe is an associate professor of Religious Studies, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Biblical theology. In addition, he is an instructor in the Foreign Language Department, teaching introductory courses in German, Spanish, and Italian. He holds a doctorate in Biblical theology (STD) from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), a license in sacred scripture (SSL) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome), an M.Div. from St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, and an M.A. in German language and literature from Marquette University. Prior to coming to Stritch, he taught for 15 years at Saint Francis Seminary in Milwaukee.
Lampe is an ordained Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and has served as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Milwaukee and St. Joseph Parish in Grafton, Wis., as well as providing sacramental ministry in many Catholic parishes. He is a member of several professional societies, including the Catholic Biblical Association, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the American Council for Teachers of Foreign Language. He is currently a member of the Catholic-Jewish Conference of Milwaukee, a member of the Continuing Formation of Clergy Advisory Board for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at Sacred Heart School of Theology.
Lampe is well known as a presenter on biblical and sacramental topics in parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. His current interests include the intersection between the biblical text and the formation of contemporary values; the role of lectio divina in faith formation; and the use of Old Testament traditions and figures in the formation of the Gospels.
John M. Perry
Professor
(414) 410-4164
jmperry@stritch.edu
John Perry received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Conception College in Missouri and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University, where he concentrated on the philosophy of religion.
Perry is especially interested in the philosophy of God, the philosophy of the human person, the philosophy of art and existentialism. His hobbies include painting, sculpting, hiking and writing haiku.
Dan Scholz
Associate Professor
(414) 410-4162
djscholz@stritch.edu
Dan Scholz is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 1997 in biblical theology. In 1998, Scholz began teaching biblical studies at Saint Francis Seminary. In the fall of 2004 he became a full-time faculty member in the Religious Studies Department.
Scholz has nearly 25 years of teaching experience and he has taught at the high school, college and graduate school level. He began teaching theology in 1985 at Pius XI High School where he served as theology department chair for 10 years. He is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Society and the Society of Biblical Literature with research and publication mainly in the area of the New Testament. He gives presentations and lectures in biblical studies at regional and national professional conferences, and in parishes and schools throughout the Archdioceses of Milwaukee.
David A. Stosur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
(414) 410-4010
dastosur@stritch.edu
Dr. David Stosur is Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies/Philosophy Department at Cardinal Stritch University. A liturgical theologian, Stosur has also offered a wide range of courses at the graduate, undergraduate and certificate levels, in areas such as Christian thought, the Second Vatican Council, ecclesiology, theology of ministry, liturgy and justice, theological anthropology, sacraments, Trinity, and narrative theology over a span of twenty-plus years of teaching prior to his arrival at Cardinal Stritch in Fall of 2011.
A native of the Chicago area, Dr. Stosur earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy, Magna cum laude, at Davidson College. After a year of study at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome (Collegio Sant'Anselmo), he entered the program in liturgical studies at the University of Notre
Dame, earning both an M.A. and Ph.D. in theology/liturgical studies. His dissertation on the theology of the Book of Blessings was under the direction of the late Dr. Mark Searle.
Stosur has given many parish, diocesan, and academy presentations on the church, the sacraments, and liturgical theology. He has published articles in the periodicals Assembly, Emmanuel, TLC: Today's Liturgy with Children, Liturgical Ministry, and Worship, and edited the book, "Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching": Reflections on Episcopal Ministry in Honor of Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. (Liturgical Press, 2003), contributing the concluding essay in that volume. His research interests include the narrative aspects of liturgy and the role of children in the liturgical assembly. He holds membership in the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the North American Academy of Liturgy, and is a founding member of the Catholic Academy of Liturgy.