Father Jack McGrath, S.M. is a native of Manhasset, New York and enjoyed a Catholic education from elementary school through university. Along the way, after attending Chaminade High School in New York, he entered the Marianist novitiate and made first vows in 1954.
After a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy at the University of Dayton in 1957, Father McGrath pursued his Masters work in American History at the Ohio State University in Columbus (1962). After five years teaching mathematics, history and religion in Marianist high schools in Ohio and New York, Fr. McGrath followed the theology program of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland where he was granted his S.T.L. in 1966. Father McGrath also pursued further graduate studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands that resulted in the degree of Drs. in theology (1968). After some years of administration in the Society of Mary, Dr. McGrath enrolled in the Institute for Christian Thought at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto. His Ph.D. in historical theology was granted in 1979. During sixteen years on the Provincial Council of the New York Province of the Society of Mary, Father Jack served as Assistant for Religious Life and as Provincial for two terms. He then began full time teaching at the University of Dayton in 1987.
Dr. McGrath has been especially involved in the development of the undergraduate curriculum in Religious Studies in Dayton, the development of the Ph.D. program in theology, the development of the Cluster in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and was the founding chair of the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today. He is now Director of Graduate Studies for the Religious Studies Department.
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