Academy Meeting in Toronto
January 3-7, 2007
Candidate for NAAL Vice President: Bruce Morrill, S.J.
Bruce
Morrill, S.J., is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
in the Theology Department at Boston College, where he joined the faculty
in 1996 upon completion of his doctorate at Emory University. Previous
studies included an M.A. in anthropology at Columbia University and M.Div.
at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
A visitor to NAAL since 1994, Bruce became a member of the Academy in 1997 and has been active in the Liturgical Theology and, more recently, Liturgy and Postmodern Questions seminars. He also participates in Societas Liturgica, the Catholic Academy of Liturgy, and the International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and Liturgy. Bruce’s service to the discipline has included convening the Sacramental and Liturgical Theology group of the Catholic Theological Society of America for the past ten years, serving on the editorial boards of Liturgical Ministry and Assembly, and guest-editing for Liturgy. Recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Theological Studies, he has refereed manuscripts for that and a half dozen other journals and book publishers. His own publications include three-dozen journal articles and book chapters, eighteen reviews, three edited books (Liturgy and the Moral Self [1998], Bodies of Worship [1999], and Practicing Catholic [2006]), and the book Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory (2000). Current book projects include Divine Worship and Human Healing (Pueblo), to be released at next year’s Academy meeting, and the co-edited Sacraments, Revelation of the Humanity of God (Pueblo/Cerf), honoring Louis-Marie Chauvet upon his retirement this coming October. Bruce has been awarded visiting fellowships at the Milltown Institute (National University of Ireland) and the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture (College of the Holy Cross), where he co-directed a national conference on Catholicism and ritual. This spring he is Visiting Professor of Liturgical Theology at the School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle University.