Dr. Susan Abraham is Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard University, where she joined the faculty in 2007 and served as associate director of the Center for the Study of World Religions from 2010 to 2012. Abraham brings rich insight from her experiences in her native India and here in the West, as well as from her teaching and academic research, particularly in the areas of postcolonial and feminist theological practices invigorating contemporary communities of faith.
She is the author of “Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of “Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology” (Fortress, 2009). Her publications and presentations weave practical theological insights from the experience of working as a youth minister for the Diocese of Mumbai, India, with theoretical perspectives from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory. Ongoing research projects include issues in feminist theological education and formation, interfaith and interreligious peace initiatives, theology and political theory, religion and media, global Christianities, and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism.
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Fr. Daniel Horan, O.F.M., is a Franciscan friar of the Most Holy Name of Jesus Province (New York) and a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College. A member of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) Board of Directors, Fr. Dan has lectured, delivered academic papers and presented workshops in both the United States and Europe.
His work focuses on the retrieval of medieval Franciscan theological insight for contemporary application. This is especially evident in his research on the work of John Duns Scotus.
Fr. Dan’s work has been published in a number of academic and popular journals and he is completing his fourth book. His first book is a contemporary presentation of the Franciscan spiritual tradition titled “Dating God: Live and Love in the Way of St. Francis” (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2012). He studied theology and journalism/mass communication at St. Bonaventure (class of 2005) before joining the Friars.
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About the Program Director
 The Honors Seminar is directed by the Rev. Terrance Klein, S.T.D., chair of St. Bonaventure’s Department of Theology. He has more than 20 years of college and university teaching experience, including faculty appointments at Fordham University, St. John’s University and The Pontifical College Josephinum. Fr. Klein is the author of “Wittgenstein and the Metaphysics of Grace” (Oxford University Press, 2007), in addition to two other books and numerous peer-reviewed articles of theology. He also is a frequent contributor to leading lay Catholic journals and magazines. His latest book, “The Book of Life: On the Nature of the Soul as Narrative,” was published by Ashgate Press in October 2012.
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