Darleen Pryds

Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality, Franciscan School of Theology
Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1994
M.A., University of Southern California, 1985
B.A., University of Southern California, 1983

A Catholic laywoman, Darleen is especially interested in teaching and researching historical cases of lay religious leadership. She has published several articles and a book on lay preaching within the Medieval Church. Darleen has received many research grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy; a Research Fellowship at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame; and a National Endowment for the Humanities Research grant to research at the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University. She remains a loyal alumna of her alma mater, USC, and loves watching USC football games.