Our Staff

 

 

Editor | Dominic Preziosi

Dominic Preziosi joined Commonweal in May 2012 as digital editor and was named editor in July 2018. He has held senior editorial positions with McGraw-Hill, Forbes, and CMP/United Business Media, and has published fiction, articles, and essays in The Brooklyn Review, The Common, Descant, Front Porch, ItalianAmericana, Nautilus, New Jersey Spotlight, and elsewhere. He was educated at Fordham University, Brooklyn College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dominic lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son, and daughter.

Follow him on Twitter @DominicPreziosi.

 

Senior Editor | Matthew Boudway

Matthew Boudway joined the Commonweal staff in 2006. He grew up in Arizona and was educated at Yale, Oxford, and Boston University. He has worked as a farmhand, a bookseller, and an English teacher in France, and was for two years an editor at First Things. He lives in Harlem.

 

Associate Editor | Regina Munch

Regina Munch joined the Commonweal staff in 2016.  Originally from the Philadelphia area, she studied humanities at Villanova University and received her master’s degree in history at Boston College. She lives in Manhattan.

Follow her on Twitter @regmunch.

 

Associate Editor | Griffin Oleynick 

Griffin Oleynick arrived at Commonweal in January 2018 as the magazine’s first John Garvey Writing Fellow and joined the staff in May 2018. 

 

Features Editor | Alexander Stern

Alexander Stern joined Commonweal in 2022 as features editor. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning (Harvard University Press, 2019), and his writing has appeared in AeonThe Hedgehog Review, and The New York Times, among other outlets.

Follow him on Twitter @AlexWStern

 

Managing Editor | Isabella Simon

Isabella Simon joined Commonweal in 2019. She was raised in Chicago and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in English. She currently lives in Manhattan.

 

Production | David Sankey

David Sankey is an illustrator and designer based in Queens, New York City.

Follow him on Twitter @davidsankey.

 

Paul Baumann

Paul Baumann, senior writer for Commonweal, came to Commonweal in 1990 and was editor for fifteen years, 2003-2018. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Monthly, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications. With Patrick Jordan, he is the editor of Commonweal Confronts the Century: Liberal Convictions, Catholic Tradition - Celebrating Seventy-Five Years from the Pages of Commonweal (Touchstone).

 

Rand Richards Cooper

Rand Richards Cooper, contributing editor at Commonweal, has been a film reviewer, book reviewer, and essayist for Commonweal for over a decade. He is the author of two works of fiction, The Last to Go (HBJ) and Big As Life (The Dial Press) and has taught at Amherst and Emerson colleges.

 

Editor at Large | Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly joined the Commonweal staff in 2008, and has been Editor at Large since 2015. She is a graduate of Yale and a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her writing on religion, current events and the arts has appeared in publications including the Atlantic, the Guardian, American Theatre and the Village Voice. She lives with her husband and four sons in Yonkers.

Follow her on Bluesky @mollieoreilly.bsky.social.

 

Copy Editor | Susanne Washburn

Susanne Washburn has served Commonweal since 1999. Prior to that she spent thirty-five years on Time, the last stretch as a senior reporter. Sue studied literature at Albertus Magnus College, and has an MA from New York University. She writes regularly for the regional quarterly Stratton, and contributes occasionally to Commonweal, the National Catholic Reporter, and the American Catholic. With her lawyer husband, Larry Washburn, she lives in Dorset, Vermont; they have three adult children and two grandchildren.

 

Podcast Editor | David Dault

David Dault edits The Commonweal Podcast. He lives in Chicago.

 

Anthony Domestico

Anthony Domestico is an assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY, and a regular contributor to Commonweal.

Follow him on Twitter @tony_domestico.

 

Massimo Faggioli

Massimo Faggioli, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. His most recent book is Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century (Liturgical Press, 2017).

Follow him on Twitter @MassimoFaggioli.

 

Rita Ferrone

Rita Ferrone, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is the author of several books about liturgy, including Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium (Paulist Press).

 

John Gehring

John Gehring, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, an advocacy group in Washington, and former associate director for media relations at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is author of The Francis Effect: A Radical Pope's Challenge to the American Catholic Church (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Follow him on Twitter @gehringdc.

 

Luke Timothy Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson is emeritus Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University.  Among his many books are Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity (Yale) and Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church (Eerdmans). He is a regular contributor to Commonweal.

 

Cathleen Kaveny

Cathleen Kaveny teaches law and theology at Boston College, and is a regular contributor to Commonweal.

 

Matt Mazewski

Matt Mazewski, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is a Ph.D. student in economics at Columbia University and rapporteur of the University Seminar on Catholicism, Culture, and Modernity.

Follow him on Twitter at @mattmazewski.

 

B.D. McClay

B. D. McClay, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is senior editor of the Hedgehog Review. She lives in New York.

Follow her on Twitter @bdmcclay.

 

Jo McGowan

Jo McGowan, a Commonweal columnist, writes from Deradoon, India.

 

Paul Moses

Paul Moses, a contributing writer at Commonweal, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).

Follow him on Twitter @PaulBMoses.
 

Margaret OBrien Steinfels

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, is a regular contributor to Commonweal.

 

Celia Wren

Celia Wren, a stage & television critic for Commonweal, is the managing editor of American Theatre, a monthly magazine covering theatre across the country. Her articles about the arts and culture have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Newsday, the Boston Globe, the New York Observer, Talk, Stagebill, American Theatre, Broadway.com, and South Africa's Weekly Mail.

Follow her on Twitter @CeliaWren1.

 

Publisher | Thomas Baker has served in that role at Commonweal since 2010. He began his publishing career as a business reporter, then worked for many years at The Wall Street Journal, where among other roles he oversaw the startup of the paper’s web business. He has degrees from Princeton and Columbia Business School. He and his wife live just outside Princeton, NJ.

Follow him on Twitter @tbopenfield.

 

Business Manager | James Hannan

James Hannan joined Commonweal in 2010. Prior to that, he held senior management positions at a number of professional and B2B publishing companies. He was educated at Seton Hall University and the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Rita, have three children and live in New Jersey.

 

Vice President of Advancement | Adrianna Melnyk

Adrianna Melnyk joined Commonweal in July 2020. Adrianna has held senior development positions at Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Hospice Care in Westchester and Putnam, and the Orange Circle, a New York-based NGO. She serves on the board of directors of the Ukrainian Institute of America, and is a development volunteer for the Lviv-based Ukrainian Catholic University. She was educated at Columbia College and Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

 

Marketing Manager | Gabriella Wilke

Gabriella Wilke joined Commonweal in 2017. She is a graduate from the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she studied English with an emphasis in Medieval Studies. She and her husband live in the Bronx.

Follow her on Twitter @gabriella_wilke.

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