Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ, PhD

Biography

“One of the most important gifts we bring to our ministry is the truth of our faith and history. Historical studies help us know how blessed the Church is and how we have overcome challenging times throughout history.

Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ, completed her doctorate in historical theology at Saint Louis University in 2006. After teaching at Saint Louis University and the University of Dallas School of Ministry, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 2009. She served as a professor of church history at the Aquinas Institute of Theology from 2012 to 2021. During that time, she published on the twelfth-century Abbey of Saint Victor as well as contemporary issues in religious life. She made her final profession as a Religious of the Sacred Heart in January 2020. She became the Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2021.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Saint Louis University 2006
• M.A. Saint Louis University 2002
• B.A. Gonzaga University 2000

Select Publications

Prophetic Witnesses to Joy: A Theology of the Vowed Life (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021). [forthcoming]

Life at Saint Victor, edited by Frans van Liere and Juliet Mousseau, Victorine Texts in Translation 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).

In Our Own Words: Religious Life in a Changing World, edited by Juliet Mousseau and Sarah Kohles (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018).

A Companion to the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris, edited by Hugh Feiss and Juliet Mousseau, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2017).