Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Fawzia Ahmad has taught courses and published in French language and in literature and women and gender studies for the University of Colorado in Boulder for the past fourteen years. She is now continuing her teaching and research work at Regis University and at the University of Colorado in Denver. [Fawzia.Ahmad@colorado.edu]
Katherine Bain is Assistant Professor of Religion at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. She holds a master's degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University. In her research, teaching, and writing, she investigates interpretations of biblical texts in academic and new media, giving special attention to political, socioeconomic, and ethical analysis. She is currently working on a project that draws on ancient sources to explore the theological and political significance of work. [drkathbain@gmail.com]
Julia Watts Belser is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies department at Missouri State University. She studies Jewish culture in late antiquity, with a particular focus on rabbinic literature and the Talmud. She brings feminist perspectives, queer studies, and disability studies to the study of late ancient texts and contemporary culture. Her current work centers on rabbinic ecological thought and its implications for Jewish theology and practice. She received her PhD from the Joint Program in Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, and rabbinic ordination from the Academy of Jewish Religion California. [juliawattsbelser@missouristate.edu]
April Bulmer is an award-winning Canadian poet who has had six books of poetry published. She holds three master's degrees, in creative writing (Concordia), religious studies (Windsor), and theological studies (Trinity, Toronto School of Theology). Many of her poems focus on women's spirituality. Her most recent collection, Women of the Cloth, will be published in 2012. She was born and raised in Toronto, but now lives in the small city of Cambridge, Ontario. [aprilb@golden.net] [End Page 171]
Mary C. Churchill, PhD, teaches in Women's and Gender Studies, American Multicultural Studies, and Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and American Indian Quarterly as well as in Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions and Reading Native American Women: Critical/Creative Representations. In 2001 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. [mary.churchill@sonoma.edu]
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Belmont University and an ordained Baptist and Disciples of Christ minister. She has contributed to various publications including The Chalice: Introduction to the New Testament, True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, and Semeia Studies: Biblical Mothers and Their Children. Dr. Crowder is on the editorial boards of Feasting on the Gospels and ON Scripture. Her research interests include womanist maternal hermeneutics and the Bible and/in pop culture. She is married to a pastor and has two sons.
Ulrich Timme Kragh is an independent scholar, currently living in the Netherlands. He received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen (2004), and has since been engaged in postdoctoral work at Harvard University, as a visiting assistant professor at Florida State University, and Assistant Professor and Head of the Tibetan Research Team at Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies at Geumgang University, Chungnam, South Korea. His feminist scholarship is focused on the female Tantric tradition that formerly existed in the Swat valley in Pakistan. An earlier article on this topic is "On the Making of the Tibetan Translation of Lakṣmī's *Sahajasiddhipaddhati," in the Indo-Iranian Journal (2010).
Stephanie May is completing her doctorate in Religion, Gender, and Culture at Harvard Divinity School. Her dissertation critically analyzes rhetoric of home, homeland, and Christianity in feminist Christian and postcolonial critiques of home. Stephanie is a former managing editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. [smay@mail.harvard.edu]
Melanie S. Morrison is Executive Director of Allies for Change and an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She works with individuals and organizations to better understand the connections between systemic oppressions and to...
