News, Publications & Research | Theology and Franciscan Studies Program

SBU’s Fisher to be honored with Franciscan Mission Service award

Mar 31, 2025 | Claire Fisher, a St. Bonaventure University senior majoring in Communication, Social Justice and Advocacy, will receive the San Damiano Servant Leadership Award from the Franciscan Mission Service (FMS).

Article by SBU's Belfield results from Franciscan Institute research

Mar 14, 2025 | An article by Dr. Andrew Gertner Belfield, assistant professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies, was published in volume 82 of Franciscan Studies, a peer-reviewed journal of the Franciscan Institute at SBU.

SBU's Couturier receives certificate of achievement from Harvard

Feb 13, 2025 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M., Cap., associate professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies and director of the Franciscan Institute, received a certificate of achievement from Harvard University's School of Graduate Education in Educational Justice.

SBU's Couturier presents paper to regional association of churches

Feb 13, 2025 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M. Cap., associate professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies and director of the Franciscan Institute, presented a paper to the Greater Olean Association of Churches on Feb. 2.

Franciscan Institute scholars publish interdisciplinary volume on trust

Jan 10, 2025 | Three scholars from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University have joined in the publication of a new international volume titled “Trust: Franciscan Connections in Theology, Spirituality, Economics and Beyond.”

Bychkov publishes article on medieval Franciscan debate

Sep 19, 2024 | Dr. Oleg Bychkov, professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies, published an article titled “The Late Medieval Debate about the Nature of Phenomenal Reality in Franciscan Theology and Islamic Thought and its Greek Sources” in the special edition of the journal Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval (The Spanish Journal of Medieval Philosophy), 31, no. 1 (2024): 167-99, dedicated to the topic “The Powers of the Soul in Medieval Franciscan Thought.”

Faculty members attend three-day sustainability workshop

Sep 10, 2024 | Five faculty members attended the Valley & Ridge Faculty Workshop for Sustainability held at Dickinson College in May.

SBU’s Bychkov awarded $146,000 grant to edit and translate Duns Scotus’s book

Sep 05, 2024 | Dr. Oleg Bychkov, professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University, has been awarded a $146,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to edit and translate an important work of Franciscan scholar John Duns Scotus.

Scholars from St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Institute publish volume on moral conversion

May 23, 2024 | Four scholars from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University have joined in the publication of a new international volume edited by Krijn Pansters and Anton ten Klooster titled “Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society.”

SBU’s Franciscan Institute appoints Research Fellow for Poor Clare studies

Apr 23, 2024 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has announced the appointment of Michael Shane Harless as its 2024-2025 Research Fellow

SBU’s Franciscan Institute appoints Dr. Krijn Pansters as general editor of Franciscan Studies

Feb 28, 2024 | Fr. David B. Couturier, O.F.M. Cap., executive director of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University, has appointed Dr. Krijn Pansters as the new general editor of the institute’s premier academic journal, Franciscan Studies.

Lahaie to join Franciscan women in discussion of poverty issues

Feb 09, 2024 | Franciscans International recently invited Dr. Myka Lahaie, assistant professor of theology and Franciscan studies, to participate in a cohort of Franciscan women who will engage in discussions and events at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in March.

SBU’s Franciscan Institute publishes a new book on St. Francis’ Earlier Rule

Oct 13, 2023 | Franciscan Institute Publications of St. Bonaventure University has published a new study of St. Francis of Assisi’s rule of 1221.

Franciscan scholar Cusato writes new biography of St. Francis

Oct 05, 2023 | A new biography of Francis of Assisi by Fr. Michael Cusato, scholar-in-residence at St. Bonaventure Friary, represents decades of original research and reflection by the author, one of the leading historians of the Franciscan phenomenon working in the world today.

St. Bonaventure University theology professors lead international conference in Rome

Aug 24, 2023 | Dr. Aaron Gies and Dr. Andrew Belfield, assistant professors of theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University, recently led an international group of theologians considering the topic “Alexander of Hales and the Early Franciscan School on the Last Things” at Collegio Sant’Isidoro in Rome, Italy.

Gies completes diplomate in manuscript studies at PIMS

May 04, 2023 | Dr. Aaron Gies, assistant professor of theology & Franciscan studies, has completed a diplomate in manuscript studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), part of the University of Toronto.

Dante scholar Ronald B. Herzman addresses students in Christian Spirituality classes at St. Bonaventure

Apr 18, 2023 | World-renowned Dante scholar Ronald B. Herzman spoke to students in Christian Spirituality classes at St. Bonaventure University on Monday, April 17. Herzman, emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo, spoke on the subject of Dante’s Catholic and Franciscan spirituality as expressed in his masterpiece, “The Divine Comedy.”

St. Bonaventure’s Franciscan Institute publishes first volume of Franciscan Mission and Leadership Series

Mar 29, 2023 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has published the first in a new series of books on Franciscan mission and leadership.

St. Bonaventure receives $147,000 grant for Seneca Nation educational initiative

Jan 31, 2023 | St. Bonaventure University has been awarded a $147,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to bolster its relationship with the Seneca Nation of Indians.

Spanish theological journal publishes article by Couturier

Jan 26, 2023 | Fr. David Couturier, associate professor of theology and Franciscan studies and director of the Franciscan Institute, published an article this month on racial justice in a Spanish theological journal, Carthaginensia.