Mark S. Massa
Mark S. Massa, SJ is the Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. From 2010 to 2016 he was Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Massa founded the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham in 2001 and served as its director until 2010. He was also the first holder of the Karl Rahner Chair in Theology at Fordham University. Massa has written a number of books including "Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice?" and "Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day , and the Notre Dame Football Team", which won the AJCU/Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Outstanding Work in Theology for 1999-2001. Massa is currently working on a history of Catholic theology in the United States since the Second Vatican Council. He has served as the director of the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.