Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Susan Abraham received her Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School, where she is currently Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies. Her recent publications include Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (2007) and "What Does Mumbai Have to Do with Rome? Postcolonial Perspectives on Globalization and Theology, in Theological Studies 69 (2008). Her research interests deal with Catholic and feminist practical theology and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism. [sabraham@hds.harvard.edu]
María Pilar Aquino is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, California. She has served as the first woman president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, of which she is also a cofounder. She serves on the editorial boards of prominent national and international theological journals. Her most recent publications include various major scholarly essays and the edited books A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice (2002), Reconciliation in a World of Conflicts (2003), and Feminist Intercultural Theology: Latina Explorations for a Just World (2007). For the academic year 2008–2009, Aquino is Visiting Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Rosemary P. Carbine received her Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago and currently teaches at Whittier College. She specializes in constructive Christian theology, particularly in comparative feminist and womanist theologies, theological anthropology, U.S. public/political theologies, and teaching theology and religion. Recent publications include "'Artisans of a New Humanity': Revisioning the Public Church in Feminist Perspective," in Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, forthcoming); "Claiming and Imagining Practices of Public Engagement," in Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women's Strategies for the Church (Crossroad, 2009); "Contextualizing the Cross for the Sake of Subjectivity," in Cross-Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today (Fortress, 2006); and "Ekklesial Work: Toward a Feminist Public Theology," Harvard Theological Review (2006). She is former co-chair of the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group in [End Page 241] the American Academy of Religion (2004–2007), and will serve as convener for Theological Anthropology in the Catholic Theological Society of America (2009–2010). [rcarbine@whittier.edu]
Michelle A. Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. Prior to her position at UM she spent the past two years working with the Roman Catholic Mission in the Mayan community of San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala. She received her Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in 2001. Her research and teaching interests include Latino/a, Latin American, and feminist theologies, as well as interdisciplinary work in Afro-Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (2003), Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity (2006), and Created in God's Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology (2007). [mmaldonado@mail.as.miami.edu]
Aysha Hidayatullah is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a 2008–2009 Dissertation Fellow at the Jesuit University of San Francisco, where she is completing a dissertation entitled "Women Deputies of Allah: Methods, Limits, and Possibilities of 'Feminist Theology' in Islam," in which she examines an emerging body of Muslim feminist scholarship on the Qur'an in North America. [ahidayatullah@usfca.edu]
Emma Hoglund graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music degree in horn performance and honors in religion. She will graduate from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the sociology of religion. She also intends on starting graduate school in fall 2009. She presented her paper "The Body's 'Iron Cage' and Its Relationship to the 'Protestant Ethic' " at the American Academy of Religion's Upper Midwest Regional conference in spring 2008.
Mary E. Hunt is a feminist theologian who is cofounder and codirector of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland. She is the editor of A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z (2004). [mhunt@hers.com]
Nami Kim is Assistant...
