Mary Ann Zimmer is a member of the Notre Dame Sister of Omaha, Nebraska, and is an assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She holds an M.Div. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and Ph.D. in Theological Studies from Emory University. Her work has appeared in the Proceedings of the Forum on Religion and Public Life, In the Embrace of God: A Feminist Reader in Theological Anthropology, Women and the Shaping of Catholicism: Women Through the Ages, and the journal Liturgy.