Academic Staff

Dr. Luciano Boschiero, BA Hons (Wollongong), Ph'D (UNSW)

Lecturer in History

Luciano Boschiero specialises in the history and philosophy of early modern science, particularly scientific academies in the seventeenth century. Luciano is the author of several journal papers, as well as the book: Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento. He is currently researching the origins of the Accademia degli Inquieti in 1690s Bologna, and the contributions of mathematician and philosopher, Geminiano Montanari, to the experimental life in Bologna and London during the second half of the seventeenth century.

Selected publications:

• Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.
• Stories About the Birth of Modern Science”, Minerva (2005), 43, 311-318.

• “Post-Galilean Thought and Experiment in Seventeenth-Century Italy: The Life and Work of Vincenzio Viviani”, History of Science (2005), xliii, 77-100.

• “The Saturn Problem: Natural Philosophical Reputations and Commitments on the Line in 1660 Tuscany” in P. Anstey and J. Schuster (eds), The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer/Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2005, 185-213.
• “Natural Philosophical Contention Inside the Accademia del Cimento: the Properties and Effects of Heat and Cold”, Annals of Science (2003), 60, 329-349.
• “Natural Philosophizing Inside the Late Seventeenth-Century Tuscan Court”, British Journal for the History of Science (2002), 35 (4), 383-410.

Phone 9896 9321

Email l.boschiero@campion.edu.au

Rev. Dr. Luke Holohan SM, BA (Qld), Ass Dip in Rel St.(Union Th Instit)), Dip Ed (Syd Inst of Ed), B Theo (SydColDiv), Grad Dip Min Lead (SydColDiv), PH'D (Trinity)

Lecturer in Theology

Fr Luke Holohan, S.M. holds a B.A. (University of Qld), B.Theol. and Grad.Dip.Ministerial Leadership (Sydney College of Divinity) and a Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin). His Ph.D is entitled: “Institutional Integrity: The Use of Theories of Justice for Resource Allocation in the Australian Catholic Church” (October, 1996).

After his ordination in 1988, he served as a school teacher and Religious Education Co-ordinator. Since completing his doctorate, he has been Co-ordinator of the Certificate of Religious Studies at the Aquinas Academy, and Director of Studies at the Catholic Enquiry Centre and given courses at the Australian Catholic University’s School of Business and Informatics, the Catholic Institute of Sydney and the Catholic Theological Union where he was head of the Christian Ethic Department. Until beginning his term as Lecturer in Theology at Campion College in 2006, his main work was at St Patrick’s, Church Hill, Sydney, were he still has part-time duties.

In addition to his lecturing position, Fr Holohan also assists with chaplaincy duties at Campion College and gives courses at the Catholic Institute of Sydney. His main research interest is the interface of Catholic social ethics with secular political theory.

Phone 9896 9322

Email l.holohan@campion.edu.au

Dr. Amitavo Islam BSc Hons (ANU), PhD – Mathematics (Sydney),

PhD – Philosophy (UNSW)

Lecturer in Philosophy

Phone 9896 9324

Email a.islam@campion.edu.au

Dr. Stephen McInerney, BA Hons (ANU), Ph'D (Sydney)

Lecturer in Literature

Stephen McInerney (b. 1976) holds a Doctorate from the University of Sydney (2006) and a Bachelor of Arts (with First Class Honours) from the Australian National University, where he was awarded the University Medal in English in 2000. In Your Absence (Indigo/Ginninderra), his collection of poems, was recommended by Les Murray in the Times Literary Supplement ‘Books of the Year’ in 2002. His writings have appeared in the Bulletin, the Australian, Adelaide Review, Quadrant, Who Weekly, Southerly, Critical Review, AD2000, Oriens, the Remnant (USA), Best Australian Poems (2004 and 2005), the Literary Encyclopedia and the Warwick Review (UK) and his poetry and/or critical opinion has been quoted on ABC’s Classic FM, in the Sydney Morning Herald and in Alex Buzzo’s Legends of the Baggy Green.

Dr McInerney specialises in modern poetry, but he enjoys teaching across the curriculum as an ‘amateur’ (a lover), from Homer through Evelyn Waugh and beyond. He has a particular interest in the ‘Great Books’ movement popularised by Mortimer Adler, and the related renaissance in liberal arts programs in the United States in recent decades. His research passions include the legacy of John Senior and Pearson College, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Les Murray and Robert Gray, and the history of modern approaches to teaching the great books and rhetoric.

Phone 9896 9319

Email s.mcinerney@campion.edu.au

Dr Susanna Rizzo, BA (Hons)-Classics (Federico II-Napoli), MA-Int. Rel (UoW),
PhD-History (UoW)
Lecturer in History and Classics

Susanna Rizzo is currently a lecturer in History at Campion College Australia. She holds a BA(Hons) in Classics (specialisation: historical-religious-archaeological) from the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’ (Italy); a MA in International Relations (University of Wollongong) and a PHD in History (University of Wollongong).  Her research interests lie in the areas of hermeneutics and the formation of epistemologies; in religious studies (in particular Early Christianity; the Judaism of the Second Temple; Church History; Missionary activity); World History; nationalism and identity. Her Honours thesis focused on the Essene Community of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Title: Il Giudaism Esseneo-Qumranico con Riferimenti alle Origini Cristiane). Her PhD thesis titled From Paradise Lost to Promised Land. Christianity and the Rise of West Papuan Nationalism is currently being turned into a book.             She has also published in the Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill 2006). Susanna is also interested in world literature and in particular poetry. She has published a collection of poems in Italian titled Falene in the series Poeti Contemporanei (Cultura Duemila Editrice-Ragusa) in 1993. Susanna speaks fluently Italian, French and Spanish. Before working at Campion College, she has worked as lecturer in history at the School of History and Politics and at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) of the University of Wollongong (NSW).

Phone 9896 9323

Email s.rizzo@campion.edu.au