Fr. David Collins, S.J. is an associate professor of medieval history at
Georgetown . He is proud of having grown up “inside the beltway” and was, in fact, born on campus (though he was not a Jesuit at the time). He entered the Society of Jesus immediately after graduating from college. His eleven-year Jesuit training included studying Philosophy in Munich, teaching high school in Philadelphia, and studying Theology in
Cambridge, Massachusetts . He was ordained a priest in 1998.
Father Collins was awarded his doctoral degree in 2004 in medieval history from
Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois, and arrived at
Georgetown the same year. He has written extensively about the cult of the saints in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and he has just returned to the Hilltop after four semesters of research on the religious and philosophical debates over the practice of learned and demonic magic (alchemy, astrology, necromancy, etc.) in the Middle Ages.
Fr. David Collins, S.J. is an associate professor of medieval history at