Curriculum Vitae

Thomas M. Landy, Ph.D.

 

College of the Holy Cross                                                           59 Church Street            .

1 College Street                                                                         Dedham, MA

Worcester, MA 01610-2395                                                        02026

(508) 793-3723                                                                           (781) 326-1572

 

tlandy@holycross.edu                                                               

                                                                 

 

Education

 

1995-2000         Boston University, Boston, MA

Ph.D. in Sociology

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Religion (American Catholicism and Religious Institutions); Civil Society; Community Studies and Urban Sociology

Dissertation: “A Place for Sacrifice: American Catholics and the Religious Value of Sacrifice” Director: Peter L. Berger; Readers: Alan Wolfe, Daniel Monti Defended August, 2000

1991-1995         Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA

Master of Divinity, May, 1994

1988-1989         Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Philosophy Studies

1985-1986         The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

                        Master of Arts in International Relations

                        Thesis: From Regalism to Activism: The Catholic Church and Rightist Governments in Four Third World Countries

1978-1982         Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

                        Bachelor of Arts in History

Spring 81          American College in Paris, Paris, France

                                                                

 

Relevant Professional Experience

2003-                Director, Lilly Vocation Discernment Initiative, College of the Holy Cross

2000-                Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Associate Director, Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross.  Courses taught: “Sociology and Social Reform,” “Modernity,” “Shaping Cities: Ethnicity and Group Identity,” and “The Sociological Perspective.”

1998-2000         Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Special Assistant to the Dean, College of the Holy Cross.

1991-                                Founder/Director, Collegium, a faculty fellows program initially funded by the Lilly Endowment and sponsored by Fairfield University.  A consortium of 55 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada,  Collegium sponsors faculty development programs on issues of religion and intellectual life.

1999-2000         Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor, Division of Social Sciences, Harvard University.

1996-                Summer Instructor, “Exercising Leadership in Religious and Public Settings,” Loyola University Chicago (IL), and Saint John’s University (MN).

1995-1997         Teaching Fellow Department of Sociology, Boston University (Soc 100, Introduction to Sociology; Soc 115, Introduction to Sociology: Law and Society)

1994-1995         Associate Project Director, Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

1992-1995         Teaching Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government (PAL 101, “Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources” and STM 118, “Exercising Authority”).

1991-1995         Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Fairfield University.

1989-1991         Instructor, Department of Political Science, Fairfield University.  Courses taught:  International Relations, United States Foreign Policy, Colonialism and Dependency, Comparative Socialist Societies, Socialist Societies in Transition, Caribbean Politics, History of Jesuits.

Faculty Advisor to 40 department majors; Residence Hall Prefect.

1989-1993         Program Coordinator, The College Access Program, a University-sponsored summer program for Black and Hispanic high school students.

                                                                 

Publications

                        Books

-Editor and contributor, As Leaven for The World: Catholic Reflections on Faith, Vocation, and the Intellectual Life (Franklin, WI: Sheed and Ward, 2001).

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles, Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries

- “Statistical Profile of Colleges Founded by Women Religious.” for Encyclopedia of American Catholic Women, University of Notre Dame Press (forthcoming).

-  “The Colleges in Context,” in Catholic Women's Colleges in America, ed. Cynthia Eagle Russett and Tracy Schier.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 

-  “Environmentalism and Catholic Social Thought: Some Background, Challenges and Opportunities,” New Theology Review, 9 (May, 1996).

-  “Forty Years and Some Revolutions Later: The Problem of Catholic Intellectual Life Today,” U.S. Catholic Historian (February, 1995).

- “Myths That Shape Us:  Jesuit Beliefs About the Value of Institutions.” In Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 26, (November, 1994).

- “Connecting Poverty and Sustainability,” Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 21, (Winter, 1994).

- “From Miracle to Crisis: Brazilian Foreign Debt and the Limits of Obligation.”  Monograph, Case Studies Series, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 1990; Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, no. 509.

 

Popular Journals and Magazines

- Consulting Editor, Commonweal Magazine, 1999-2001.

- “Christ the King?” Commonweal Dec. 3, 1999.

- “Catholic Studies in Catholic Colleges and Universities,” America 178, January 3-10, 1998. Reprinted in Best Practices: Enhancing Religious Identity in Catholic Colleges and Universities, ed. John Wilcox and Irene King (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000).

- “Collegium and the Intellectual’s Vocation to Serve,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 10 (Fall, 1996).

- “Politics on Parade,” Commonweal 121, (September 9, 1994).

- “A Papal Visit, A Troubled IslandAmerica (August 14-21, 1993).

- “What’s Missing from This Picture?” (interview with Norman Lear on civil rights and religious liberty), Commonweal 119, Oct. 9, 1992).

- “Lay Leadership and Catholic Higher Education: Where Will It Come From?” America, 162, (March 17, 1990).

 

            Book Reviews

- Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church. Francis Oakley and Bruce Russett, eds. (New York: Continuum, 2004) for Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education, forthcoming.

- Goodbye Father: the Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church.  By Richard A. Schoenherr. Edited with an introduction by David Yamane. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) in Journal of the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Spring 2004.

-A History of Christian Education: Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Perspectives by John L. Elias (Krieger, 2002) in Theological Studies, December 2002, Vol. 63, No. 4.

-The Soul of the American University by George Marsden (Oxford, 1994) in Theological Studies, 55, (December, 1994).

 

                                                                

 

Talks and Papers

- January 27, 2004, “Catholic Intellectual Traditions and the Future of Catholic Higher Education,” Rivier College Faculty Assembly.

- July 18, 2003, “The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Curriculum,” Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education.

- June 14, 2003, “Becoming Familiar with the Catholic Intellectual Tradition,” Lay Leaders in Catholic Higher Education: An Emerging Paradigm” national conference, Sacred Heart University, CT.

- July 18, 2002, “Engaging Catholic Intellectual Traditions on Campus,” Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education.

- May 31, 2002, Panel Convener, “Education for Justice,” Robert Bellah, et.al., Transitions Conference,  San Francisco.

- October 19, 2001, “Many Disciplines, Various Faiths: Faculty Diversity and Mission,” Lilly Fellows Program National Workshop for Administrators, Rivier College, NH.

- August 17, 2001, “The Value of Sacrifice” Association for the Sociology of Religion meeting, Anaheim, CA.

- July 12, 2001, Panel Chair, Conference for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education, Boston College.

- Apr 28, 2001, “What Happened to Sacrifice?” Alumni Association “Classroom Revisited, College of the Holy Cross.

- Mar 9-11, 2001, Participant, Catholic Common Ground Dialogue on Young Adult Catholics, Chicago, IL.

- Feb 5, 2001, Panelist, “Hiring for Mission,” Annual meeting of Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (college presidents), Washington, DC.

- November 13, 1999, Panelist, annual meeting, Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

- August 19, 1999, Faculty Development Day Keynote, Rivier College, NH.

- March 18, 1999, Paper Response, Faculty Seminar on Catholic Studies, College of the Holy Cross.

- May 9, 1998, Keynote, Lilly Regional Consultation on Church-Related Colleges, Messiah College, Grantham, PA.

- November 21, 1997, “Catholic Studies,” Presentation to Chairs of Religious Studies and Theology, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, San Francisco.

- November 6-7, 1997, Presentation, Catholic Studies Conference, University of Saint Thomas, MN.

- October 13, 1997, Keynote Address at “Loyola Day” gathering for faculty and staff of Loyola University, New Orleans.

- July 3, 1997, “Politics of Church-State Relations in Contemporary America,” Panel Discussion, Multinational Institute in American Studies, New York University.

- May 9-10, 1997, “Demographics of Catholic Higher Education, 1960-1990) Catholic Higher Education Colloquium, Saint Louis University, MO.

- February 5, 1997, Panel Presentation, “Faculty Development in Catholic Higher Education,” Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

- October 19, 1996, “Teaching Sociology,” Panel Discussion, Department of Sociology, Boston University.

- December 21, 1995, “Leadership,” Jefferson Fellows Program (USAID), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

- September 23-25, 1995, Leadership Education Workshop, Boston College High School, Boston, MA.

- August 3, 1995, Panel Discussion Leader, “The State of Catholic Intellectual Life,” Catholic Higher Education: Practice and Promise Conference, Saint Paul, MN.

- July 19, 1995, “The `New Evangelization’ and Intellectuals,” Religious Education and Pastoral Ministries Conference, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.

- March 26, 1995, Committee on the Art of Teaching, Seton Hall University, NJ.

- October 7, 1994, Presentation to academic vice-presidents of Jesuit colleges and universities, Fairfield University.

- August 21, 1994, Keynote, Daylong faculty and staff development seminar, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO.

- June 13, 1994, “Faculty Development: Building Allies,” Panel Discussion, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Conference on Peace and Justice Education, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH.

- May 25, 1994, “Faculty Development for Mission and Identity,” Higher Education in the Heartland Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, IL.

- March 28, 1994 “Catholic Identity: What Difference Within the Disciplines?” Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO.

- March 17-18, 1994 Instructional workshop, Boston College, Sponsored by the University Council on Teaching.

- March 14, 1994 Faculty seminar and evening talk, “Catholicism and Intellectual Life,” John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH.

- December 8, 1993 “Catholicism and Intellectual Life,” Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, talk followed by panel discussion; sponsored by Committee on the Art of Teaching.

- November 18, 1993 “Catholic Intellectuals?” Harvard University Catholic Graduate Student Association.

- November 14, 1993, “Catholic Intellectuals?” Cornell University Catholic Graduate Student Association.

- October 22, 1993 Conference of Coordinators of Mission and Identity, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Loyola University Chicago - Keynote.

- March 27, 1993 Boston College Law School, Sustainable Solutions Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA.

- June 26, 1992, FADICA (a foundation consortium), Los Angeles, CA.  Reprinted in Proceedings:  Institutional Identity and the Religious Impact of Catholic Higher Education (FADICA, 1992), and Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, vol. 13.

- June 9, 1992, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN

- October 17, 1991, Catholic Graduate Students, Northwestern University.

- October 18, 1991, Catholic Graduate Students, The University of Chicago.

- April 10, 1991, National Honor Society Induction, St. Dominic’s High School, Oyster Bay, NY.

- January, 1990, “The Crisis in Kuwait” Panel Discussion, Fairfield University.

 

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Higher Education Consulting

 

- May 19-23, 1999, Rhodes Consultation on Church-Related Higher Education (32 institutions), Albiquiu, New Mexico.

-  April, 1999, Saint Norbert College, DePere, WI.

- April 12, 1995, Lilly Consultation on Religion and Higher Education, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis.

- March 12, 1995, Lilly Consultation on Theological Education, Wabash College, IN.

 

                                                                  

Grants and Awards     

2001          $2 million and $50,000 from Lilly Endowment, Inc., for the College of the Holy Cross (co-author).     

    1995-1999     Full Departmental Scholarship and Teaching Stipend, Boston University

1999   McShain Foundation, $10,000; Doty Foundation, $10,000; Meehan Foundation, $15,000; Koch Foundation, $27,450; all for Collegium

1998     An anonymous family foundation, Switzerland, $70,000 for Collegium.

1995     Lilly Endowment, Inc., $410,000 for Collegium.

1994     An anonymous family Foundation, USA, $32,500 for Collegium.

1992     Fund for Globalization in Theology, $700 for study/travel in Brazil.

1991     Lilly Endowment, Inc., $478,000 to establish Collegium.

1991     Lilly Endowment, Inc., $4,500 to organize a