Mary Ewens, OP holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, and has been a teacher and/or administrator at Dominican University, Edgewood College, the University of Notre Dame, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ("Angelicum,") and Marquette University. The fruits of her life-long study of sisters' history are seen in her chapters in Native Footsteps Along the Path of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Scattered Steeples: the Fargo Diocese, American Catholic Women, Women and Religion in America, Women of Spirit, An American Church, Between God and Caesar, Day in, Day out: Women's Lives