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Rev. David Smith, S.T.D., S.S.L., founding and outgoing director of the justice and peace studies program, is a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of St. Thomas with a major in mathematics and graduate mathematical studies at Colombia, Fordham, and the University of Minnesota, he has studied theology and Sacred Scripture at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN, Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., the "Angelicum" in Rome, and the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem. His Cum Laude Doctorate in Theology is from the Angelicum, and his Cum Laude Licentiate in Sacred Scripture by examination before the Pontifical Biblical Commission of the Vatican.
In the fall of 1988 he studied poverty and development by traveling for four months through thirteen countries of Central and South America and the Caribbean. From October 1997 through July 1998 he first taught a short course at the European Peace University in Austria, then investigated the way various religions deal with issues of justice and peace by traveling through South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Philippines) and Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa) finishing his tour in Ireland.
In 1991 he shared with Mary Rose O'Reilley the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. The consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development named him its national teacher of the year in 1994, and the St. Thomas faculty voted him Professor of the Year in 1995. He served as treasurer on the board of directors of the national Peace Studies Association from 1995-1997 and was a member of the 6-person Transition Team from 2000-2001 planning the merger between the Peace Studies Association and the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development. The newly merged organization is called the Peace and Justice Studies Association.
Besides published articles and book chapters, he has written textbooks for three of the program’s courses:
Fr. David regularly teaches JPST 250 and 472, THEO 305, and University and seminary courses linking Sacred Scripture with justice issues.
For more information, contact:
Rev. David W. Smith
University of St. Thomas
Mail 4137
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5325
Last modification date 10/02/02.
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