11 Facts About Phyllis Zagano

Phyllis Zagano was born on August 25,1947 and is an American author and academic.

Phyllis Zagano has written and spoken on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons.

Phyllis Zagano's writings have been variously translated into Indonesian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Phyllis Zagano has a BA from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York ; master's degrees in communications from Boston University, in literature from Long Island University, and in theology from St John's University ; and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979.

Phyllis Zagano was a researcher at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York from 1984 to 1986 and a Coolidge Fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1987.

Phyllis Zagano taught at Boston University from 1988 to 1999.

Since 2002, Phyllis Zagano has taught at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where she is senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion.