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Can't find what you're looking for? Contact the media relations staff one of the following ways:

• mediarelations@udayton.edu 

• Cara Zinski-Neace, executive director of news and communications, at 937-229-3257 or czinskineace1@udayton.edu.

• Shawn Robinson, associate director of news and communications, at 937-229-3391 or srobinson1@udayton.edu

• Meagan Pant, associate director of news and communications, at 937-229-3256 or mpant1@udayton.edu.

For University of Dayton Research Institute experts, contact Pamela Gregg at 937-229-3268 or pgregg1@udayton.edu.

Viewing experts on: Mary, mother of Jesus
Johann Roten, S.M.
Johann Roten, S.M.
Scholar in Residence

Areas of expertise: how faith and the Catholic Church intersect in different cultures, especially how cultures see the birth of Christ and express their perspectives in Nativities. He frequently also serves as a resource on canonization and apparitions. A former student of Pope Benedict XVI, Roten served on a Vatican-appointed commission about Mary in the 1990s. Swiss by birth, Roten speaks English, French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Latin and Greek. He ministers in Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian in the ethnic churches of Dayton. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. To contact Fr. Roten, email mediarelations@udayton.edu.

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