Wood, Susan K.

Susan K. Wood SCL, Professor of Systematic Theology, earned a MA in French at Middlebury College, a STL at Santa Clara University, and a PhD in theology at Marquette University, where her dissertation was on the Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac. She taught at St. Mary College in Leavenworth, Kansas, Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her administrative experience includes five years as Associate Dean at Saint John’s University, eight years as department chair at Marquette University, and three years as Dean of Regis College. President of the Catholic Theological Society of America 2014-2015, she received the John Courtney Murray Award from that society in 2021.

Prof. Wood’s ecumenical experience includes the U.S. Lutheran Roman Catholic Dialogue (1994-present), the North American Roman Catholic-Orthodox Theological Consultation (2005-2023), the International Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue (2008-2019), and the conversation between the Baptist World Alliance and the Roman Catholic Church (2006-2010, 2017-2021). She has also participated in consultations on baptism, theological anthropology, and the nature and purpose of ecumenical dialogue sponsored by Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches and the Joint Working Group. She serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ecclesiology.