Academic History
Ph.D., Theology and Society, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1991
M.B.A., University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995

Expertise 
Interdisciplinary engagement between Catholic social thought and business

Awards & Honors
The University of St. Thomas Business Ethics Award for 2001

National Outstanding Course Award for "Christian Faith and the Management Professions: An Entrepreneurial Perspective," First Place from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2002.

Selected Books

The Good Entrepreneur: Four Virtues for Building a Faithful Company (co-author Jeff Cornwall, Regal Press) is due out Summer 2008.

Managing as if Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization, 2001 (co-author Helen Alford-translated into Spanish, Russian and Hungarian with Italian and Chinese in progress)

Rethinking the Purpose of Business: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Catholic Social Tradition, Spring, 2002 (co-editor, S.A. Cortright)

Rediscovering Abundance: Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income and their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition, 2005 (co-editors, Helen Alford, Charles Clark, S.A. Cortright).  

Selected Online Articles

"The Corporation as a Community of Work: Understanding the Firm Within the Catholic Social Tradition," Ave Maria Law Journal (Winter 2006) 33-75.

"Bridging the Gap: Catholic Health Care Organizations Need Concrete Ways to Connect Catholic Social Principles to Practice," Health Progress (December 2006) With Bill Brinkmann;T. Dean Maines; Michael Stebbins & Arnold Weimerskirch.

"Catholic Social Tradition: Thought, Teaching and Practice," Health Progress (January 2006).

 "Distributors of Justice: A Case for a Just Wage," America (May 17, 2000).

Selected Presentations
"Integrating Faith and Work:  Building a Venture on a Moral Foundation," plenary speaker at the International Council for Small Business World Conference, Washington D.C., June 17, 2005.

"Distributors of Justice:  A Tribute to Ruby" plenary speaker at the Christian Business Faculty Association, October 30, 2004, San Antonio, Texas.

"The Power to Build Communities: Transforming Business Enterprises into Communities of Work," presented at the "New Horizons in the Economy of Communion" Conference, September 10-12, 2004, Castelgandolfo,  Italy.

"Gaudium et spes and the Problem of the Divided Life" presented at the "Reading the Signs Times" seminar, September 9-11, 2004, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

"The Virtue of Courage in Entrepreneurship: Of Risk and Character Development," The New New Things of Catholic Social Thought University of Notre Dame, co-author Jeff Cornwall, (April 2002)