- Honorary Membership, Alpha Sigma Nu, Spring, 1988.
- Woman of the Year, California Women in Higher Education, LMU Chapter, 1989.
-Recipient, Cushwa Foundation Travel Grant, 1989.  For research in the Archives of th University of Notre Dame.
-Recipient, T. Marie Chilton Fellowship, 1997.
-Liberal Arts College Fellow, Spring, 1994.
-Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award, Spring, 1994.
-Initiated into Theta Alpha Kappa, National Honor Society for Theology and Religious Studies, Spring, 2001

AWARDS

Enrolled as a member of its inaugural class

LMU Faculty Hall of Fame

Catholic Theological Society of America

College Theology Society

Medieval Academy of America

Medieval Association of the Pacific

Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages

Theological Matchmaking: Connecting Theological Sources in the American Context

Reading the Word in a Eucharistic Context: The Shape and Methods of Early Medieval Exegesis

Let Women Not Despair: Rabanus Maurus on Women as Prophets

The Right Occasion for the Words: Situating Aelred's Homily on St. Katherine

Excluded by the Logic of Control: Women in Medieval Society and Scholastic Theology

Reclaiming an Ancient Story: Baudonivia’s Life of St. Radegund

Women and Their Mothers: Rejecting and Reclaiming the Tradition of the Saints

Quaestio Disputata: Catholic Theology and the History of Exegesis

New Voices in the Tradition: Medieval Hagiography Revisited

Secundam Naturam: The Inheritance of Virtue in Aelred’s Genealogy of the English Kings

The Flesh of Adam: Women, Bodies and the Sacramental Imagination

An Urban Bishop in a Changing World: The Exegesis of Caesarius of Arles

Clothing Maketh the Saint: Aelred's Narrative Intent in the Life of Saint Ninian

’Like a Boat is Marriage': Aelred on Marriage as a Christian Way of Life

Putting on the Mind of Aelred: Reflections of a Translator

Dhuoda of Septimania was a remarkable Carolingian aristocrat who wrote a Liber Manualis of biblically based practical directions for her at times wayward warrior son.  Her method of interpreting the Bible is of special interest: the religious experiences of the Old Testament are seen as shared family experience, rather than allegorical tales as for Origen.

Dhuoda:  Ninth Century Mother and Theologian

Women at the Table: Three Medieval Theologians

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Professional Background
- Teaching at Loyola Marymount University, 1974-2006
- Chair, Department of Theology, 1979-1982
- Director of Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture and the  Arts, 1994-1998

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Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies

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