Mary C. Boys is the Dean of Academic Affairs and the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York; from 1978-1994 she was a professor at Boston College. For much of the past 30 years, she has been deeply involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue at the national and international levels. Her last five books as author, co-author, or editor reflect that involvement. A Roman Catholic, she is a member of a women's religious community, the Sisters of the Holy Names. While living in the Northeast for the past 40 years, her roots lie in the Pacific Northwest as a native of Seattle.