DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Education

• D.Th. St. Paul Univ., Ottawa, 1990
• Ph.D. UOttawa, 1990
• L.Th.M. Accademia Alfonsiana, Lateran University, Rome, 1981
• B.Th. McGill, Montreal, 1979
• B.A. McGill, Montreal, 1976

Areas of Specialization

• Eastern Christianity, Religion in Europe, Christian Social Ethics.

Current areas of research

• Intercultural relations.

Scholarly Associations

• International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) : Member, Board and Executive Committee (2010–)
• Co-editor, forthcoming volume on Russian Orthodox Contacts with other Churches and Religions, selected papers from the ICCEES VIII World Congress (Stockholm, 2010).
• Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS), member and representative to ICCEES (2005–).
• American Academy of Religion: Co-chair, Religion in Europe Consultation (2001–).

Books authored

• Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: the Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky. Toronto : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1997.

Books edited

• Co-editor, with Thomas Bremer, volume on the Encounters of Eastern and Western Christianity, selected papers from the ICCEES VIII World Congress (Stockholm, 2010). Forthcoming.
• Acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate of L'viv, 1941–1944. An Archival Manuscript from the Period of the German Occupation. Comp. Zhanna Kovba. Kiev, 2003. In Ukrainian.
• Index to the Ukrainian Catholic Periodical Literature of Galicia, 1871–1942. Compiled, edited and with an introduction by the editor. Lviv, 2000. In Ukrainian.
• Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky: his Life and Works. Vol. 2: The Church and the Social Question. Part 2: Correspondence. Lviv, 1999. In Ukrainian.
• Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky: his Life and Works. Vol. 2: The Church and the Social Question. Part I: Pastoral Teaching and Work. With an introduction by the editor. Lviv, 1998. In Ukrainian.
• Episcopal Conferences of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, 1902–1937. Biblioteka Ridkisnoi Knyhy. Lviv, 1997. In Ukrainian.

Articles

• "The German occupation of Western Ukraine, 1941-1944: the Plight of Jews and the Case of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky" – submitted to Ukrainian-Jewish encounter – Shared Narrative Series: Conference on Issues Relating to World War II (Berlin–Potsdam, June 2011).
• "Due approci della Chiesa cattolica ucraina al problema dell'unita dei cristiani: Septyckyj e Slipyj" in Storia religiosa dell'Ucraina. A cura di Luciano Vaccaro. Gazzada: Fondazione Ambrosiana Paolo VI, 2007. 367-90.
• "Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril and Methodius," "Sheptytsky, Andrei (1865–1944)," "Ukrainian Catholic Political Parties" and "Voloshyn, Avhustyn (1874–1945)." In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Eds. Roy P. Domenico and Mark Y. Hanley. 2 Vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• "Church and State in the USSR: a Bio-bibliography of Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, 1955–2007." Harvard Ukrainian Studies Vol. XXVI No. 1–4 (2002-2003). 23–49.
• "Russia," "Ukraine" and "Kyiv." In Encylopedia of Monasticism. Ed. William M. Johnston. 2 Vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.