Academy Meeting in Toronto
January 3-7, 2007
Candidate for NAAL Vice President: Judith Marie Kubicki
Judith
Marie Kubicki, CSSF, has been a member of NAAL since 1997. During that time, she served a term on the executive committee as delegate for seminars, chaired the ad hoc committee for the NAAL Table Prayer, served on the nominating committee for the 2003 elections, and on the local committee for the New York meeting in 2004. Since January 2003 she is convener of the Liturgical Theology Seminar.
Judith Kubicki has a doctorate from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. with a specialization in liturgical studies. Her dissertation was published by Peeters as part of their Liturgia condenda series and is entitled Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol: A Case Study of Jacques Berthier’s Taizé Music. Judith also has a Masters of Liturgical Music from CUA, as well as a BA in Music from Daemen College and an MA in English from Canisius College, both in Buffalo, New York. Her latest book, The Presence of Christ in the Gathered Assembly was published by Continuum in 2006.
Currently, Judith Marie Kubicki is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University in New York. She serves as liturgical music reviewer for the journal Worship and chairs the Board of Directors of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. She served as consulting editor for the liturgical music entries for the 2001 edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia, for which she also contributed several entries, has published articles in Theological Studies, Studia Liturgica, Worship, The Living Light, New Theology Review, INTAMS review, America, Pastoral Music, among others, and has contributed articles to edited books. Before her present position at Fordham, Judith served as Director of Music and later as Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies and Academic Dean of Christ the King Seminary, a graduate school of theology in East Aurora, New York.