Gerald A. McCool S.J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, and served as the department chair from 1977 to 1981. He taught theology in Fordham's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1995 to 1997. During his time at Fordham he served on the Executive Committee of the Philosophy Department, the Board of Directors of Jesuits of Fordham, and the Fordham University Faculty Senate. His publications include, The Neo-Thomists, Person and Being, and The Ambrosian Origin of St. Augustine's Theology of the Image of God in Man.