About Jem Sullivan, PhD

Dr. Jem Sullivan, wife and mother, educator and author, holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of America. An educator for two decades serving at the elementary, high school, undergraduate and graduate levels, she currently serves in the Education Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Jem is the author of three books from Our Sunday Visitor and she writes for a variety of Catholic publications on faith and culture, including art essays in Magnificat and The Catechetical Review.

Jem has served as host of EWTN documentary specials on beauty as a means of evangelization and the Trinity Dome Mosaic at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. Previously she served as a volunteer docent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., leading tours of the museum’s masterpiece collections.

Education:
BA (Interdisciplinary Studies – Theology and Philosophy) Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
MA (Theology) Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio
PhD (Catechetics with concentration in Patristic Catechesis) The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Area of Teaching Specialization: Catechetics

Course Level: Graduate

Courses Taught: RELED 560 Principles of Catholic Education; COMP 699 Comprehensive Exam