Affiliates and Associates

Affiliate and associate status allows scholars and community practitioners to formalize their collaboration with the centre through three-year renewable terms. Associates are permanent STM college employees, whereas affiliates come to the centre from other settings (community organizations, other colleges and schools at the University of Saskatchewan, sessional lecturers, independent scholars, etc.).

Affiliates and associates are invited to regular centre lunches, discussions, lecture series, and other events, allowing fresh collaborations to emerge and empowering a community of scholars and practitioners committed to working for the good of humanity, both locally and globally, especially in the centre’s distinctive areas of faith, peace, justice, and service.

Current Affiliates and Associates

  • Connie Andersen

    As STM’s Director of Advancement, Connie Andersen brings 23 years of experience and a social justice lens to alumni engagement and fund development, focusing on the faith-inspired values of generosity and building right relationships with others.  

  • S. Hakan Armağan

    As a PhD student in engineering focusing on nuclear waste management from small modular nuclear reactors, Hakan is interested in both the engineering and the social and environmental aspects of energy use.

  • Susanne Guenther Loewen

    Susanne Guenther Loewen teaches Peace Studies at STM alongside researching and writing on Christian peace theology, peace ethics, and gender justice.

  • Vijay Kachru

    Vijay is pursuing a doctoral degree in English literature at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research area is comparative postcolonial literature from Commonwealth countries, with an emphasis on women's writing.

  • Bernon Lee

  • Michael MacLean

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  • Richard Manley-Tannis

  • Rachel Matheson

    Rachel Matheson is a sessional instructor whose current research interests lie at the intersection of mystical theology and ecological ethics.

  • Richard Medernach

    Richard is the Manager of Student Experience and Enrolment at St. Thomas More College and one of the staff mentors for the STM Just Youth Group.  He is particularly interested in connecting the work of the Schmeiser Centre to current undergraduate students at the College.  Richard is a long time member of Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, and in a previous era, was an executive member of the Saskatoon Peace Coalition.

  • Saeed Moshiri

  • Sarah Powrie

  • Heather Peters

    Heather Peters is MCC Peacebuilding Coordinator providing community education and programs, capacity strengthening, and collaborative initiatives in the areas of peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict transformation, abuse response & prevention, and trauma-informed practices. She also serves as a sessional instructor in Introduction to Peace Studies at STM. 

  • Gertrude Rompré

    STM Director of Mission and Ministry

  • Penny Sanz

  • Jared Siebert

    Among other roles, Jared Siebert serves as Recruitment and Advancement Ambassador for the Saskatoon Theological Union. All three schools that make up the STU are deeply engaged in work that aligns with the Centre’s mission to foster dialogue and action at the intersection of faith, reason, peace, and justice.

  • Josh Wallace

    Josh Wallace is a pastor and educator, teaching sessionally in Religion & Culture, serving as on the USask Faith Leaders Council, and leading a small conversation-based congregation in Saskatoon.

For more information on Affiliate or Associate status, please contact Cynthia Wallace, centre director.

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