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Phillip Alcon Ganir, S.J.
Assistant Professor of Religious Education
Phillip Alcon Ganir, S.J.
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: phillip.ganir@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., University of Hawaii
- M.A.P.R., Fordham University
- B.M., Manhattan School of Music
- M.Div., Santa Clara University
- M.S.M., University of Notre Dame
- Ph.D., Catholic University of America
Research Interests
Catechesis; Mystagogy; Theology and Musicking; Religious Education through Music; Sacred Music in Worship; Music and The Jesuits; James MacMillan Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander Catholic Communities
Expertise
- Liturgy, Sacraments, and Canon Law
- Religious Education and Youth Young Adult Ministry
- Theology and the Arts
Profile
Born in Seattle and raised in Honolulu, Fr. Ganir joined the US West Province of the Jesuits in 1999 after earning his BA in Political Science and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. As a Jesuit he completed music degrees at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied voice with Maitland Peters, and at the University of Notre Dame where he trained in the choral conducting studios of Carmen-Helena T茅llez and Mark Doerries. At the Catholic University of America, he completed a PhD in Catechetics and wrote on the mystagogical dimension of James MacMillan鈥檚 fifth symphony Le grand Inconnu for his dissertation. He has been published in the Journal of Religious Education and The International Journal of Evangelization and Catechetics, and has worked as an Assistant Producer to the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 production and recording of Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Through Boston College he has recently co-produced a premiere of San Francisco Xavier, a restored indigenous Bolivian opera from the Jesuit Reductions, and he is currently working with a five-member research team on a Lilly funded grant which studies the state of children鈥檚 liturgical participation in the American Catholic Church.