Dominican Ecclesial Institute - Dialogues Speakers

Very Reverend Allan White, OP, STL, Ph.D

Allan White was born in London and entered the Dominican Order after university in Oxford in 1973.

He has served as university chaplain, seminary lecturer and taught in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as editing New Blackfriars.

He is presently Socius to the Master of the Dominican Order for Northern Europe and Canada; Rome, Italy

Fr. White holds a doctorate in theology and church history from the University of Edinburgh, as well as an summa cum laude Lector in Sacred Theology degree from Blackfriaris, Oxford.

Sister Katarina Schuth, OSF, Ph.D.

Sr. Katarina Schuth is an active member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, since 1960 and she has been a faculty member in higher education institutions.

Currently she holds an Endowed Professorship for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

Educated in both the Social Sciences and Theology, she has earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Geography from Syracuse University, and a Master of Theological Studies and License in Sacred Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA, as well as a B.A. in History from the College of Saint Teresa, Winona, MN.

Marti Jewell, D.Min.

Marti Jewell is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas School of Ministry, Dallas, TX.

She is the former Director of the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project, a joint project of the National Association for Lay Ministry and five other national Catholic associations (CPPCD, NACPA, NADD, NCYAMA, and NFPC).

Dr. Jewell has provided spiritual and professional formation for lay and ordained ministers, along with ministry training, academic courses, workshops, and retreats. She served as an agency director in the Archdiocese of Louisville from 1990 to 2003.

Dr. Jewell holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Dayton, a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from St. Francis Seminary, School of Pastoral Ministry, Milwaukee, and a Doctor of MInistry degree from the Catholic University of America.