Michael Hollerich has been a member of the Theology Department since 1993, having previously taught at Santa Clara University, Luther College, St. Mary's College, and the University of Notre Dame.  His academic training is in the history of Christianity (B.A. Notre Dame, in theology; M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School, theology and church history; Ph.D. University of Chicago, History of Christianity).  At St. Thomas he has taught many sections of the department's introductory course, as well as specialized courses in all periods of church history; he has also taught graduate level courses in the School of Divinity, the Catholic Studies program, and the Murray Institute.  His academic publications are primarily in the early Christian period, with a secondary interest in modern German church history.  Research and teaching expertise include religion and politics, especially political theology; the history of biblical interpretation; and relations between eastern and western Christianity.  His next publication will be the volume on Isaiah for The Church's Bible (Eerdmans, forthcoming 2007), for which he collaborated with Robert Wilken and Angela Christman.  He is currently working on two articles on the biblical scholarship of Eusebius of Caesarea, along with a long-standing book project on the patristics scholar Erik Peterson.  He is also a co-editor, with Catherine Cory, of the forthcoming third edition of the department's textbook, The Christian Theological Tradition.