Born and raised in Bronx, NY, Dr. Mary V. Ward has also lived in Westchester County, NY. She completed a B.S. in General Studies, with an emphasis on Religious Studies, by taking evening, weekend, and daytime courses, at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY. After leaving her administrative position in a multinational conglomerate in Manhattan, she decided to pursue her next degree on a full-time basis. She traveled to Franciscan University, in Steubenville, OH, where she earned an M.A. in Theology, with a focus on Scripture. In 1994, she received a Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University, Bronx, NY, with a major in contemporary systematics and a minor in historical theology. Her dissertation was in the area of medical moral theology. Dr. Ward's teaching experience includes: graduate courses at St. Joseph's Seminary's Institute of Religious Studies, Yonkers, NY; undergraduate courses at Iona College, Fordham University, and Manhattan College. She is a theological consultant to St. Michael's Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Manhattan, NY, where she advises on women's issues and theology. Her areas of academic interest and teaching experience are: world religions, Christianity, the Bible, and morality. She joined SUNY in Fall 2005. She finds it inspiring and invigorating to have the privilege of teaching such an ethnically and religiously diversified student body.
