Maureen H. O'Connell is chair of the department of religion at La Salle University, where she is also associate professor of Christian Ethics. Dr. O'Connell taught for 8 years at Fordham University, and is author of If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (The Liturgical Press) which won the College Theology Book of the Year Award and the Catholic Press Association's first place for books in theology in 2012.