Maria Pia Alberzoni
full professor of Medieval History at the Università cattolica del sacro cuore in Milan, is author of numerous contributions on Franciscan history, most especially on St. Clare of Assisi and on the origins of the various mendicant orders. Her studies have focused particularly on the ecclesiastical and political institutions of the 12th and 13th centuries, the relationship between papacy and empire, as well as that of the bishops and the Italian communal world. She is also a member of the Board of Directors on the SISF [= Società internazionale di studi Francescani (Assisi)]. Since 2105 she has directed the series: âOrdines. Studi su istituzioni e società nel Medioevo europeo,â published by Vita & Pensiero (Milan).
Luciano Bertazzo
is a professor and director of the Licentiate program in the Theological Faculty of Triveneto (Padua). Since 1985 he is the director of the âCentro Studi Antonianiâ of St. Anthonyâs Basilica in Padua. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the SISF [= Società internazionale di studi francescani (Assisi)]. He has published numerous books and articles in the areas of Franciscan studies and the history of the Church.
Joshua C. Benson
received his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from St. Louis University in 2007, under the direction of Fr. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M.Conv. He is currently Department Chair of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University. His research has focused on Bonaventure and other Franciscan figures in the philosophical and theological tradition. Among other projects, he continues to work on the biblical lectures ascribed to Stephen Langton and commentaries on the Sentences of the first generation of Franciscan and Dominican theologians.
Aaron Canty
is Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Xavier University. He is author of Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011); co-editor with Franklin T. Harkins of A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2017); and has published numerous articles on medieval theology, spirituality and exegesis.
earned his D.Phil. from Oxford University and is Professor Emeritus of the Franciscan School of Theology, now at the University of San Diego. He was chairman of the Secretariat for the Retrieval of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (CFIT) for ten years and past President of the American Catholic Historical Association. In addition to his noteworthy work on American Catholic life, he has written extensively on the Franciscan evangelical charism and has contributed most notably to a rereading of the medieval tradition in terms of contemporary times and needs. He currently teaches history at the Franciscan School of Theology (San Diego).
Michael F. Cusato
is a Friar Minor, currently living in Washington D.C. at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land. After having taught general and medieval history at Siena College (1991â1996), he moved to the Twin Cities area, where he taught ecclesiastical and monastic history in the School of Graduate Theology at St. Johnâs University (Collegeville, MN). In the Fall of 1999, he joined the faculty of the School of Franciscan Studies at the Franciscan Institute on the campus of St. Bonaventure University (NY). Engaged in full-time teaching and research, he became director of the Institute and dean of its School of Franciscan Studies. A specialist in medieval Franciscan history, he has published scores of articles on a wide range of topics and has translated into English two historical studies of his doctoral professor, André Vauchez, on Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena. Since 2011, he has been working as an independent scholar.
Jay M. Hammond
PhD, is associate professor at Saint Louis University. His publications are in three areas: the writings of Francis of Assisi, those of Bonaventure, and the mural decoration of the Upper Church of the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. His recent projects include co-editing: The Writings of Francis of Assisi, 3 vols. (Franciscan Institute Publications, 2011); A Companion to Bonaventure (Brill, 2014), and Bonaventureâs Collations on the Hexaemeron in the Works of Bonventure Series, published by Franciscan Institute Publications, 2018.
J.A. Wayne Hellmann
completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in Munich, Germany and is now professor emeritus at Saint Louis University in St. Louis (MO). During his nearly forty-five active years at the university, he served as director of Graduate Studies and then subsequently as Chair of the Department of Theological Studies. He served as co-editor of Francis of Assisi: Early
Timothy J. Johnson
is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College in Saint Augustine (FL). He received his doctoral degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Chair of the Research Advisory Board of the Franciscan Institute, he has published extensively in the areas of Franciscan liturgy, spirituality, theology as well as on Franciscan evangelization in Spanish Florida. He serves on the Historical Commission for the Cause of the Canonization of Antonio Cuipa and Companions.
Lezlie Knox
teaches medieval history at Marquette University in Milwaukee (WI). Her research focuses primarily on enclosed and semi-religious women associated with the Franciscan movement in medieval Italy. Most recently, she has published a collaborative project on the two medieval lives of Margherita Colonna (â 1280) with Larry F. Field and Sean L. Field (Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome [University of Notre Dame Press, 2017)]. It was Mariano of Florenceâs writings on these women who ultimately drew her into her current project focused on Observant historiography at the end of the Middle Ages.
Pietro Maranesi
a Capuchin Franciscan, is professor of theology and Franciscan Studies in Assisi where he also is the coordinator of the Licentiate in Franciscan Studies. He also teaches at the Antonianum in Rome. He lives at San Severino in the Marche, where he animates the Centro di esperienza e formazione francescana. He has produced many publications in the fields of theology and Franciscan studies including his most recent work, co-authored with Marco Guida: Lâautorità del servo e della madre. Ideali e forme di governo in Francesco e Chiara (Assisi, 2019).
Steven J. McMichael
is an Associate Professor in the Theology Department at the University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN). He is currently researching and writing on the topic of the resurrection of Jesus in late medieval Franciscan theology, spirituality and preaching. He has recently published a book entitled The Glory of Paradise: Risen Life in the Easter Octave Sermons of Bernardino da Siena (Tau Press, 2016).
Benedikt Mertens
is a member of the German Province of Friars Minor. He received his M.A. in Franciscan Studies from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University (NY) in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Church History from the University in Freiburg im Breisgau in 2008. Since then, he has been a member of the Frati Editori di QuaracchiâInternational Center for Franciscan Studies and Research in Romeâbeing named the general editor of the Archivum Franciscanum Historicum and Analecta Franciscana. His research area is primarily the history of missions and early modern Franciscan history and spirituality.
Dominic V. Monti
is a member of the Most Holy Name of Jesus Province of Friars Minor (New York, USA). He received his Ph.D. in theology, under Bernard McGinn, specializing in the history of Christianity, from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1979. He has taught at the former Washington Theological Union and at St. Bonaventure University, where he is currently Distinguished Professor of Franciscan Research and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Theology and Franciscan Studies. His research and publications focus on the writings of St. Bonaventure and the history of the Franciscan movement.
Catherine M. Mooney
teaches at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. She received her Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and her Ph.D. in medieval history from Yale University. She is presently President of the Hagiography Society and serves on the United States Board for the Société des Bollandistes. Her books and articles have focused primarily on hagiography and saints (including Clare of Assisi and other Franciscan saints) as well as on Ignatius of Loyola and Philippine Duchesne.
Luigi Pellegrini
taught medieval history from 1976 to 2006 at lâUniversità degli Studi âG. DâAnnunzioâ di Chieti and was the director of the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi francescani. His research and writing has focused for the most part on the early testimonies about Francis of Assisi and the early Franciscans; these were published in the first collection of Franciscan sources in 1978 (Padua). He
Michael J.P. Robson
completed a Ph.D. on early Franciscan soteriology at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and has lectured at the Franciscan Study Centre in Canterbury (1985â1992). Since 1992, he has been a Fellow of St Edmundâs College, Cambridge, where he was the Director of Studies in Divinity, Admissions Tutor and Praelector.
William J. Short
is a Franciscan Friar of the St. Barbara Province (USA), and Professor of Christian Spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego as well as Director of the Collegium S. BonaventuraeâFrati Editori di Quaracchi in Rome. Born in Seattle (WA), he received his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University (STL, STD). He has collaborated with Wayne Hellmann O.F.M.Conv and Regis Armstrong, O.F.M.Cap in the 3-volume series, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, and is currently assisting in the publication of an English edition of the Book of Conformities of Bartholomew of Pisa.