Franciscan Institute - Scholars, Authors
Roderic Hewlett. Rod completed his Doctor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economics at Middle Tennessee State University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business/Economics at Cameron University. In addition to formal academic education, Rod has completed leadership, management, finance, and applied economics training through professional organizations and U.S. Army.
Rod has served as a business professional, manager, and executive in many professional arenas – both domestically and internationally – in aerospace pricing and treasury, education, manufacturing, and military. Additionally, Rod has extensive professional and scholarly publications in the field of leadership, finance, and economics.
Rod enlisted in the U.S. Regular Army in 1976 and retired from the U.S. Army National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2002. Assignments included command and staff positions in Field Artillery and Special Operations Command, with an extended active-duty deployment in support of operations in Bosnia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Rod is an experienced educator and taught in the United States, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia as well as developing and delivering professional training for major global organizations. He is a convert to the Catholic Faith and a Secular Franciscan (OFS) in the Saint Clare Fraternity in Omaha, Nebraska. Increasingly, Rod’s publications integrate faith, society, and choice.
Aaron M. Gies, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University. He obtained his doctorate in theology and religious studies from the Catholic University of America, with concentrations in historical and systematic theology. He also holds a certificate in manuscript studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto). With Franciscan Institute Publications, he is the author, most recently, of “Divisit lucem a tenebris: Primary Conversion in Early Franciscan Theology,” in Moral Conversion in the Franciscan Tradition, edited by Krijn Pansters. He is currently editing a volume of essays, entitled Trust in the Franciscan Tradition. He serves as Associate Editor of Franciscan Studies and as a member of the Research Advisory Council. With Ian Levy and Boyd Taylor Coolman, he is a general editor of the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations series, Alexander of Hales, Gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He also formerly served as the Proofreader for Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America. His translation work includes Alexander of Hales, Gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Vol. 1, On Divine Unity and Trinity, Part One: Book One, Distinctions 1–18 and Alexander of Hales, On the Significations and Exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He is a research fellow of the Collegium S. Bonaventurae (Rome), where his long-term project is to prepare a critical edition of Alexander of Hales, Postilla in Iohannis euangelium.
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Br. F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M., was an Interim Director, Dean of the Franciscan Institute from 1991-1996. Br. Ed served as dean and director of the Franciscan Institute and the School of Franciscan Studies. He began teaching as an adjunct in the MA program in 1985 and has taught regularly during the summer sessions. Since his return to the University as Vice President for Franciscan Mission in 2005, he also taught courses during the academic year.
 Fr. Robert J. Karris, OFM, is a Franciscan priest of the Sacred Heart Province whose headquarters are in St. Louis. He earned an S.T.L. from Catholic University of America and a Th.D. from Harvard University in New Testament and Early Church History. Fr. Karris is a former professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and a former Provincial Minister of Sacred Heart Province and General Councilor of the Order of Friars Minor. He has been widely published and his most recent New Testament books are John: Stories of the Word and Faith and Eating Your Way through Luke’s Gospel. He is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and he has preached in over 60 churches in the United States on behalf of the poor served by Food for the Poor. He was a general editor on the first 15 volumes of the Works of St. Bonaventure series published by Franciscan Institute Publications. Among other books with Franciscan Institute Publications, Fr. Karris has written The Admonitions of St. Francis: Sources and Meanings and has translated and edited several other books including, Defense of the Mendicants (translated by Karris and Jose de Vinck), Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection (translated by Karris and Thomas Reist, OFM), Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John (edited by Karris), Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (edited by Karris), Bonaventure’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (edited by Karris and Campion Murray, OFM), In the Name of St. Francis: A History of the Friars Minor and Franciscanism Until the Early Sixteenth Century (by Gordo Giovanni Merlo, translated by Karris and Raphael Bonnano, OFM). Most recently, Karris provided the translation, introduction and commentary for Peter of John Olivi: Commentary on the Gospel of Mark.
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 Jean François Godet-Calogeras is a Franciscan scholar internationally known for his publications on the early Franciscan documents, in particular the writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi, and for his lectures and workshops on early Franciscan history. A native of Belgium, Jean-François received his education in classical philology and medieval studies at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the early 1980s he facilitated the international work group which elaborated the text of the new Rule of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. He is a member of the International Society of Franciscan Studies, based in Assisi. He currently serves as a professor of Franciscan Studies at Saint Bonaventure University. He was the General Editor of the journal, Franciscan Studies. Works published by FRANCISCAN INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS by Godet-Calogeras include An Unencumbered Heart – A Tribute to Clare of Assisi (2004, with Roberta McKelvie, OSF) and The Third Order Regular Rule: A Source Book (2008, with Margaret Carney, OSF, and Suzanne Kush, CSSF). |
 Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., was the 20th president of St. Bonaventure University. Sr. Margaret was working with Trustees and the University community to develop a 21st-century plan for educational excellence in a student-centered learning environment. She has established the Damietta Center, a multicultural center that celebrates the diversity of the campus community and provides cultural, intellectual and spiritual enrichment. Diversity enrollment has climbed steadily for the last three years at St. Bonaventure. The University’s First-Year Experience program is the result of early planning decisions and is already renewing the way in which new students come to grips with the potential of their college careers. During her presidency, the University added majors in several areas and an exciting dual-admissions/dual-degree program in health professions. Since the beginning of her presidency, St. Bonaventure University has invested approximately $25 million in seven major projects on the 500-acre campus. Among them are the spectacular renovation of Hickey Dining Hall, one of the University’s historic and signature buildings; complete renovation of Shay-Loughlen residence halls and the baseball complex, Fred Handler Park at McGraw-Jennings Field; construction of a gourmet coffee café; a $13.5 million, 46,000-square-foot science center; a rare books library addition; and the complete renovation of the Bob Lanier Court in the Reilly Center Arena. She was also a driving force in The Anniversary Campaign for St. Bonaventure University, which garnered more than $95 million in pledges and gifts.
A leader with a strong impulse for collaborative models, she serves on the board of the Council of Independent Colleges of New York and is a member of the board of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities, and the Secretariat for the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition. She has a seat on the Atlantic 10 Conference’s Council of Presidents and the Board of Alvernia University of Reading, Pa. She received her doctorate in theology in Rome in 1988, becoming the first woman to graduate from the Franciscan University of Rome at the doctoral level. She studied in Europe after completing master’s degrees in theology at Duquesne University and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University. From 1980 to 1982, she worked as part of an international commission on a new Rule of Life for the 400 institutes of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. This Rule was eventually approved by John Paul II. She has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad. In 1997, Sr. Margaret came to St. Bonaventure University to serve as a faculty member of its world-renowned Franciscan Institute. Within two years she was named dean and director. She promoted a number of important collaborations during her tenure, including the foundation of what is now the Secretariat for the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition. Sr. Margaret holds seven honorary doctorates* and is a member of Duquesne University’s prestigious Century Club. Most recently she was named one of the most influential Irish-American educators by Irish Voice magazine. A native of Pittsburgh, she is especially fond of her role as aunt to 10 nephews and nieces and a host of young cousins. Among her books available from Franciscan Institute Publications are The First Franciscan Woman: Clare of Assisi and Her Form of Life, History of the Third Order Regular Rule: A Source Book, and Franciscan Studies: The Difference Women are Making. On her 65th birthday, she was honored with a collection of essays entitled Vita Evangelica: Essays in Honor of Margaret Carney, OSF. |
 David Flood, OFM, is a former member of the research faculty at the Franciscan Institute, now living and working in his home province of St. Joseph in Montreal. A renowned and pioneering scholar of Franciscan history, he is the author of fifteen books, numerous articles and several critical editions of tests on early Franciscan history. He received his doctorates in history and philosophy from the Universitat Koln. With FRANCISCAN INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS, he has published: The Daily Labor of Early Franciscans (2010), Peter of John Olivi on Genesis (2007, critical edition), Peter of John Olivi on the Acts of the Apostles (2001, critical edition) and Peter of John Olivi on the Bible (1997, critical edition),Nicholaus Minorita Chronica (The Early 13th Century Poverty Controversy) (1996, with Gedeon Gal, OFM) and The Birth of a Movement (1975, with Thaddee Matura). |
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