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Francine Cardman

A native Long Islander, Francine Cardman did her undergraduate work at Swarthmore College (B.A.) and her graduate studies at Yale University (M.Phil, Ph.D.) where she specialized in historical theology and early Christianity, writing a dissertation on Tertullian and the resurrection of the body.听 She has taught at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, and now at the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College.听 She is a past-president of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, has served on the Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States, has been a board member and vice-president of NETWORK, the Catholic social justice lobby in Washington, D.C., and was a founding member and long-time board member of the Women鈥檚 Theological Center in Boston. Whether addressing contemporary or ancient issues, what is common to her teaching and writing is an historical approach that grounds theology and ministry in their social and cultural contexts.听 In addition to translating Augustine鈥檚 commentary on the Sermon on the mount, she has written on the development of doctrine and early Christian ethics; women鈥檚 ministry in early听 Christianity; questions of tradition and hermeneutics in regard to the ordination of women; lay leadership and participation in the early church; structures of governance and accountability in the church; and Vatican II and ecumenism. She is currently working on a book on early Christian ethics.

Robert Jay Rivera

Robert J. Rivera, earned his PhD in Systematic Theology from Boston College. 听His dissertation,听A Christology of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion: The Contributions of Edward Schillebeeckx and Jon Sobrino, develops a christology of liberation as a critical resource that enables excluded peoples to resist, redeem, and re-imagine globalization. Prof. Rivera was the recipient of the annual (2011-2012) Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes graduate teaching fellows and teaching assistants who 蝌蚪直播 themselves in classroom instruction at Boston College. He was also a North American Doctoral Fellow with the Fund for Theological Education (2012/2013). A New York born Puerto Rican, Dr. Rivera and his partner have three sons, and they enjoy road trips, sports, movies and ice cream.

Fred Lawrence

Fred Lawrence is Professor of Theology at Boston College. He has been running the annual Lonergan Workshop at Boston College for many years, and is editor of Lonergan Workshop, which publishes the proceedings. He also convened the First and Second International Lonergan Conferences at Rome (2001) and Toronto (2004), and the Third and Fourth International Lonergan Conferences at Mainz and Jerusalem (2013) respectively. Lawrence was a student of Bernard Lonergan at the Gregorian University, Rome, and is today one of the foremost interpreters of Lonergan's thought and an acknowledged hermeneutical philosopher in his own right. He did his PhD on the 'unlikely topic' of the hermeneutical circle in the thought of Gadamer and Lonergan. The thesis had the unique distinction of being appreciated by both thinkers. His most recent work is The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good, ed. Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin M. Vander Schel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017).

Michele听Saracino

Michele听Saracino is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. Her research focuses on the intersections among theological anthropology, contemporary continental theory, psychologies of the self, and expressions of religiosity in everyday life.听She has recently coedited听Enfleshing Theology听(Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2018) with Robert Rivera. This volume is a collection of essays on the 蝌蚪直播 Catholic theologian, M. Shawn Copeland.听She is the author of various essays and four books, the latest entitled:听Christian Anthropology: An Introduction to the Human Person (Paulist Press, 2015). Her book,听Being about Borders: A Christian Anthropology of Difference听(Liturgical Press, 2011) won听1st Place Book Award in Theology from the Association of Catholic Publishers.听Currently she is working on a project on empathy.听

Karen Teel

Karen Teel, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego. Her research and teaching endeavors center around theological engagement with the problems of racism and white supremacy. She is the author of听Racism and the Image of God听and has published essays in edited volumes and journals including听Black Theology,听Journal of the American Academy of Religion,听Teaching Theology and Religion, and听Enfleshing Theology听(ed. Rivera and Saracino), the 2018 festschrift for M. Shawn Copeland.听

Dr. Pamela Lightsey

Dr. Pamela Lightsey has a stellar history as a senior administrator and scholar in higher education. She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Meadville Lombard Theological School. Before her appointment at Meadville, she was Associate Dean at Boston University School of Theology. She is also an ordained elder in the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church. Dr. Lightsey is a womanist theologian using the methodology of constructive theology. She has served as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group. She is currently a member of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology. Dr. Lightsey is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Army. She served as a member of the original executive committee for the Soul Repair Project, which studies the role of moral injury in military veterans. As an activist, Dr. Lightsey has worked within the LGBTQ community to end Don鈥檛 Ask, Don鈥檛 Tell military policy and to ensure marriage equality, and she is a leading听activist against the United Methodist Church's homophobic polity. Pamela was on the ground protesting against excessive police force during the first 21 days of unrest in Ferguson and was one of several livestreamers providing ongoing broadcasts across a one-year period. Dr. Lightsey has consistently collaborated with activist-colleagues in the movement for the liberation of Black lives, those addressing violence against Black transwomen, and institutional racism on college campuses. Pamela鈥檚 several publications include the full manuscript,听Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology听(Wipf and Stock), 鈥淗e Is Black and We are Queer鈥� in Albert Cleage Jr and the Black Madonna and Child (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 鈥淩econciliation,鈥� in Prophetic Evangelicals: Envisioning a Just and Peaceable Kingdom (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company), 鈥淚f There Should Come a Word鈥� in Black United Methodists Preach! (Abingdon Press) and a work in progress 鈥淏linking Red: The Escalation of a Militarized Police Force and Its Challenges to Black Communities.鈥� Pamela is the mother of two adult children, one adult goddaughter whom she helped raise and has two grandsons.

Bryan N. Massingale

Bryan N. Massingale is the James and Nancy Buckman Professor of Theological and Social Ethics, as well as the Senior Ethics Fellow in Fordham鈥檚 Center for Ethics Education. 听Prior to his appointment at Fordham, he was Professor of Theology at Marquette University.

Professor Massingale is a leader in the field of theological ethics. He is a past Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. 听He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics and serves on the editorial board of听Theological Studies, one of the premier Catholic journals of theology. 听He also served on the editorial boards of the听Journal of Moral Theology听and the听Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 听He is a current member and past coordinator of the North American Regional Committee of the 鈥淐atholic Theological Ethics in the World Church鈥� project. Dr. Massingale is the recipient of four honorary doctorates, and has held the Bernard J. Hanley Chair at Santa Clara University. 听 He is also the recipient of Marquette University鈥檚 highest award for teaching excellence (2009). He is the author of works such as Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010); 鈥淭he Erotics of Anti-Blackness: Police Sexual Violation of Black Bodies,鈥� in Vincent W. Lloyd and Andrew Prevot (eds.), Antiblackness in Christian Ethics (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017), 173-194; and 鈥淏eyond 鈥楢uthentically Black and Truly Catholic鈥�: Black Catholic Identity for a New Time,鈥� Journal of the Black Catholic听 Symposium 10 (2017), 41-61.

Mayra Rivera

Mayra Rivera is Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University. She is also chair of the standing听 and a faculty member in Harvard鈥檚 doctoral program in American Studies. Rivera works at the intersections between continental philosophy of religion, literature, and theories of coloniality, race and gender鈥攚ith particular attention to Caribbean postcolonial thought. Her research explores the relationship between discursive and material dimensions in shaping human embodiment.听 Her book, 听(2007), explores the relationship between models of divine otherness and ideas about interhuman difference. She is also co-editor, with Stephen Moore, of听听(2010) and, with Catherine Keller and Michael Nausner, of听听(2004). Her most recent book,听听(2015), analyzes theological, philosophical, and political descriptions of 鈥渇lesh鈥� as metaphors for understanding how social discourses materialize in human bodies. Rivera is currently developing a project that explores narratives of catastrophe and/as Genesis in twentieth century Caribbean writing.听 She is also at work on a book examining the role of religion in the constitution of the human in the works of Caribbean writer and theorist Sylvia Wynter.

Andrew听Prevot

Andrew听Prevot听is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College. His research spans the areas of spiritual and mystical theology; philosophical theology and continental philosophy of religion; and various forms of political, liberation, black, and womanist theology. He is the author of two monographs,听Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States听(Brill, 2018) and听Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity听(Notre Dame, 2015), and coeditor of a collection of essays called听Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics听(Orbis, 2017). His articles dealing with racial questions in theology include "Not Nothing: A Mystical Theological Reading of Cornel West's 'Nihilism in Black America'" (forthcoming), "The Hope of Exodus: Black and Womanist Receptions of Christian Theology" (forthcoming), "Sources of a Black Self: Ethics of Authenticity in an Era of Anti-Blackness" (2017), "Divine Opacity: Mystical Theology, Black Theology, and the Problem of Light-Dark Aesthetics" (2016), "Hearing the Cries of Crucified Peoples: The Prayerful Witness of Ignacio Ellacuria and James Cone" (2014), and "The Aporia of Race and Identity: J. Kameron Carter and the Future of Black Liberation Theology" (2011). He is currently working on a book-length study of the grace of divine union in contemporary mystical theology, including in various womanist sources.听

Shawnee Marie Daniels-Sykes

Shawnee Marie Daniels-Sykes completed PhD studies in Religious Studies at Marquette University. A Professor in the Department of Theology at Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Shawnee specializes in Theological Ethics and subspecializes in Bioethics. Shawnee has undergraduate degrees in biology and biochemistry from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia and nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During the summers one might find her facilitating graduate seminars at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. As the only African American Catholic female ethicist in the United States, she employs Catholic Social Teaching and insights from the work of the late Bernard Lonergan to examine beginning, middle, and end of life concerns from the perspective of social bioethics. Selected to address the 2018 international gathering of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, where 500 Catholic Moral Theologians gathered in Sarajevo, she addressed the topic听Networking for Social Impact,听emphasizing the collaborations between the Black Catholic Theological Symposium (蝌蚪直播TS) and the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS)听.听Shawnee's case studies, reflections, essays, keynote addresses, book chapters, and book reviews are included in a variety of books, e-journals, journals, forums, and e-newsletters. She is "google-able."

Mary Ann Hinsdale

Mary Ann Hinsdale is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College. She holds a doctorate in systematic theology from University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, and is known for her research and teaching on ecclesiology, theological anthropology, and feminist theologies. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and the author/editor of several books, including Women Shaping Theology and the award-winning Faith That Transforms: Essays in Honor of Gregory Baum. She is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and recipient of the CTSA's Ann O'Hara Graff Award. She is also a recipient of the Elizabeth Seton Medal (2017).听

Nancy Pineda-Madrid

Nancy Pineda-Madrid is Associate Professor of Theology and Latino/Latina Ministry at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. She holds a doctorate in systematic and philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union. Her areas of research and teaching interest include systematic and practical theology, Latino/a theologies, salvation, and feminist theologies. She is the past president of Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United听States and former vice president of International Network of Societies of Catholic听Theology. She is the author of the book听Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Ju谩rez听and co-editor of the STM faculty-authored books,听Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment听and听The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire.

Christine Firer Hinze

Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theology and Director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University. She holds a B.A. in religion and an M.A. in theology from the Catholic University of America, and a Ph.D. in Christian social ethics from the University of Chicago. 听Her teaching and research focus on foundational and applied issues in Christian social ethics with special emphasis on dynamics of social transformation, Catholic social thought, and economic and work justice for vulnerable women and families. She is the author of Comprehending Power in Christian Social Ethics (Oxford, 1995), co-editor (with J. Patrick Hornbeck) of More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, vol 1 (Fordham University Press, 2014), Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors: Women, Work, and the Global Economy (Paulist, 2015), and a forthcoming volume, Radical Sufficiency: The Legacy and Future of the Catholic Living Wage Agenda. Her scholarly essays appear in, e.g., Theological Studies, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, The Journal of Catholic Social Thought, and Studies in Christian Ethics. Christine engaged in inner-city ministry and taught high school in her hometown of Detroit prior to doctoral studies. She taught---with Prof. Copeland--at St. Norbert College and Marquette University prior to her 2006 appointment at Fordham. Christine and her husband Brad, also a theologian, are the parents of two sons, and members of Our Lady of Angels parish, Bronx, NY.

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones is Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Her scholarship specializes in Mariology and black feminist thought. She earned her BA at the University of Virginia and her MDiv from Duke Divinity School, before receiving her Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 2016 with a Certificate in Feminist Theory. She is the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from the school in the field of theology and ethics.听Dr. Adkins-Jones is currently finishing her first book, (M)other of God: Race and the Christian Tradition of Trafficking Sex, which ties Christian narratives of colonialism, whiteness, rape and virginity to the rise of the global sex trade. She is also at work on a second book project titled听See No Evil: Iconic Resistance and a Theology of Black Being, which considers how technology teaches us to see race, perpetuating injustice and black death.

Sr. Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., B.A, MSW, MA, PhD

Currently Sr. Jamie is a freelance Theologian and lecturer; facilitator for bible study at St. Ambrose and St. Thomas the Apostle parishes in Chicago and a lecturer for Pax Christi鈥檚 鈥淐ommunities of Color Mobilizing for Peace鈥� Weekends; and an editor for New York鈥檚 听Haitian Catholic Newsletter Solidarit茅

Prior to this, Sr. Jamie T. Phelps, OP was a Founding Member of National Black Sisters Conference (NBSC-1968ff). Ministerially, Sr. Jamie has been an educator (teaching from first grade to the PhD levels), social worker theologian and program developer) She served as a consultant to Fr. Thaddeus Posey, OFM Conv. For 听the founding of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and the Institute for Black Catholic Studies (I蝌蚪直播S) of Xavier Univeristy of Louisiana where she served as the Director and 听Katherine Drexall professor of Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana from 2003-2011. She also served on the 听theological/or religious studies faculties of The Catholic Theological Union (1986 -1998 where she 听was the Founding Director of CTU鈥檚 Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program); Loyola University Chicago (1998- 2003); and 听visiting Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio (January-May, 2003) and the University of Notre Dame (2005-2006 & 2012-2013).