Academic History

Ph.D., Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1983
M.A., History and Phenomenology of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif., 1977
B.S., Psychology and Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, 1974

Awards and Honors

• 1993 Chair, University Faculty Affairs Committee
• 1990-1993 Elected Graduate Faculty Representative, University Faculty Affairs Committee
• 1988 Chair, College Task Force on Undergraduate Academic Advising and Counseling Committee
• 1982-1983 Loyola University Schmitt Fellow
• 1977 M.A. Thesis accepted with honors

Selected Publications and Presentations

• LaMagdeleine, D.R. (2006). Why Even Mathematics is Political: a Brief Note on the Effects of the Bush II Administration’s Treatment of Science as Myth on Educational Policy. Midwest Qualitative Conference, Minneapolis.
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. (2003). Negotiating the Apparent Contradictions of Leadership Preparation: a Sociological Perspective. Teaching in Educational Leadership, Fall.
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. & Dexter, S.J. (2002). Dominance Theater, Slam-a-thon, and Cargo Cults: Three Illustrations of How Using Conceptual Metaphors in Qualitative Research Works. Qualitative Inquiry 8(3).
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. & Rigoni, D.P. (1998). Teamwork for the Millennium: Computer Majors' Education as Moral Enterprise. Journal of Moral Education 27(4).
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. & Kramer, B.H. (1998). Transgression and Forgiveness in an International School: a Non-modern Case Study. Educational Administration Quarterly 34(3).
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. (1998). The Healing of Progressivist America: the Premises of School Desegregation within U.S. Civil Religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 35(3).
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. & Gessner, J.C. (1992). Shifting Pillars: Diocesan Leaders' Perceptions of Baby Boom Era Institutional Change. Review of Religious Research 33.
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. (1992). "Deseg" Talk: Educational Policy-Makers' Divergent Assumptions in Two Towns. Educational Administration Quarterly, 28(4).
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. & Gessner, J.C. (1988). The Impact of the Baby Boom Cohort on U.S. Religious Denominations: Theoretical and Research Directions. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 3.
• LaMagdeleine, D.R. (1983). The Changing American Catholic University.

Professional Memberships

1983 - present, National Jesuit Honor Society