D.Min Director - Assistant Professor

Office: 333
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: wcavalier@ost.edu

• BA, Secondary (English) Education, Nicholls State University (Thibodaux, LA)
  Masters in Religious Education, Catholic University of America
  MDiv, MA in Theology (Ecclesiology), Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (Berkeley, CA)
  PhD (Theology and Education), Boston College

Experience: Youth Ministry; Child, Special, and Youth Catechesis; Catholic High School Teaching, Administration, and Campus Ministry; Parish-level Lay Ecclesial Ministry; Community Organizing; AIDS Hospice Practical Support Volunteer; Parish Adult Faith Formation; University Campus Ministry; Rural Ministry Development Specialist for Glenmary Home Missioners; Retreat and Parish Mission Preaching; Religious Community and Congregational Leadership; Parish Sacramental Ministry; Lay Ecclesial Ministry Formation; Visiting Professor of Practical Theology (Barry University); Adjunct Faculty in Ecclesiology, University of the Incarnate Word and Oblate School of Theology.

Academic interests: Faith Formation/Religious Education, Practical/Contextual Theology, Ecclesiology, Theology of Ministry, Formation for Ministry, Adult Faith Formation, Sociology of Religion, Adult Education Theory, Instructional Technology