DONALD PETAR JARNEVIĆ received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a member of the part-time faculty at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, College of Liberal Arts, in Detroit, Michigan. He taught Philosophy at the University of Detroit Mercy from 1990 through 2010.  Prior to the merger with University of Detroit, Dr. Jarnević’s first alma mater, he taught at Mercy College of Detroit from 1960 through 1990.  In addition to teaching at Ave Maria College in 2004-2005, he was a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh in 1979.  Donald also earned MA degrees from the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) in Religious Studies and in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. 

Most recently, Dr. Jarnević presented a paper at Holy Cross College: “Justice and the Human Person,” National Conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Holy Cross College, South Bend, Indiana, October 23, 2010.  He was also published in Divinato: “St. Thomas Aquinas and the Controversy regarding the Eternity of the World: A Response to Professor Gerald J. Massey,” Divinatio: Studia Culturologica Series, 28 (Autumn-Winter, 2008), 153-169. 

Donald is a parishioner and cantor at Sacred Heart Byzantine Catholic Church in Livonia, Michigan.