Our annual summer colloquies have welcomed 1,500 faculty and graduate students, of all disciplines and faiths, to engage in lively discussion about Catholic mission on campus.
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MENTOR PROFILES
Read about the Colloquy mentors and their Collegium experiences.
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Nancy Dallavalle
Faculty Fellow 1996, Board Member 2008-2009
Dallavalle
Mathew Schmalz
Faculty Fellow 1999, Mentor 2005
On Faith
Brian Stiltner
Graduate Fellow 1994
Deep Down Things
Bronwen McShea
Graduate Fellow 2010, launched
Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience
(featured at right)
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Bronwen Catherine McShea was a Collegium Graduate Fellow in 2010. This May, she received her Ph.D. in history at Yale University, where she won the Hans Gatzke Prize for her dissertation, “Cultivating Empire Through Print: The Jesuit Strategy for New France and the Parisian Relations of 1632 to 1673.” She received her B.A. and M.T.S. from Harvard University.
Bronwen learned of Collegium from several past fellows from Yale who, like her, had little experience with Catholic educational institutions, but for whom a fruitful integration between faith, scholarship, and teaching is critically important. While eager to participate in open-ended as well as practical discussions of such topics with faculty from many disciplines from Catholic colleges and universities around the country, she was unprepared for the wonderfully transformative nature of the program, of the many illuminating and encouraging conversations that developed over several leisurely days at the University of Portland, and especially of new friendships formed there.
That one week was inspirational beyond measure for Bronwen’s last year of work on her dissertation and also to her sense of vocation as a scholar and teacher who is committed both to academic excellence in her chosen discipline and to a life of integrity and faithful witness to the Gospel. In addition to researching and writing on subjects where the relationship of religious belief to action in the world is central, Bronwen continues to engage in discussions of vocation and mission in higher education, and also the building up of intellectual community and friendships, with Catholic scholars and teachers around the country. Throughout the past year, she has been a participant in the new Generations in Dialogue program sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.
Beginning Sept. 1, 2011, Bronwen will be residing in the city of Mainz, Germany, on a 12-month postdoctoral research position at the Institute of European History. She is very pleased to have the opportunity to live and work in Europe this coming year.
Bronwen is also the founding editor of a new web journal called Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience, launched in the fall of 2010, which seeks to provide a space for women and men within, and far beyond, the academy to grapple intelligently and humanely with challenges posed to them both by the Catholic Church and by contemporary society. Conversations at Collegium were crucial in helping Bronwen and her fellow editors to refine Pilgrim’s mission, which is to “explore what it means to sustain a Catholic identity and live Christianity holistically in today's world” and to “provide a forum for Catholics, and those sympathetic to Catholic ideas and approaches to life, to develop their capacities for critical thought, creativity, and concern for one another and for all God's creation.” The journal is updated seasonally and can be viewed at www.pilgrimjournal.com.
Whether Bronwen ends up teaching at a secular or Catholic institution in the coming years, encounters at Collegium with junior and senior faculty already laboring in integrated lives of academic excellence and Christian witness—often in quiet, prayerful, and humbly “hidden” ways—will remain with her to guide and inspire her.