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Mary Hembrow Snyder

Professor Emerita

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Dr. Mary Hembrow Snyder is Professor of Theology & Religious Studies and Director of the Wm. C. Sennett Institute for Mercy & Catholic Studies. She has been a member of the ÈÕº«ÂÒÂ× community for the last thirty-three years.  Dr. Snyder is also the Director of the Catholic Studies Program and Coordinator of the Joan D. Chittister, OSB, Lecture Series and Archive at ÈÕº«ÂÒÂ× University.

She won the Teaching Excellence Award in 1992 and has authored/edited four books: The Christology of Rosemary Radford Ruether, (Twenty-Third Publications, 1988); Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader, (Orbis Books, 1992), Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan D. Chittister (Orbis, 2001) and, with Marylou Kownacki, OSB, Joan Chittister: Essential Writings, (Orbis, 2014).