Fr. Marty Connell, S.J., PhD

Dean

Martin Connell, S.J. (BA ’87), PhD, is the Dean of Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago. Most recently, Fr. Connell served as Rector at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Previously, he served as Rector of the Jesuit Community at John Carroll University, where he was also an associate professor in the Department of Education and School Psychology. In his role as rector, Fr. Connell has been an animator of the Ignatian ethos and Jesuit, Catholic tradition in his communities.

In addition to Fr. Connell’s work at Santa Clara University, he also has served in leadership roles in Jesuit secondary education as assistant principal for academic affairs at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland and as principal at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. He is the founding headmaster of a co-educational Jesuit boarding school, St. Peter Claver High School, in Dodoma, Tanzania and served as the Assistant Provincial for Education in the Eastern Africa Province of the Jesuits.

After graduating from Loyola in 1987, Fr. Connell went on to earn an MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and an MDiv and STL from the Jesuit School of Theology. He was ordained in 1994 before earning his PhD in teaching and learning from the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.