{"id":2176,"date":"2026-08-12T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2176"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:17:53","slug":"women-in-the-american-church-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/event\/women-in-the-american-church-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the American Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College)<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Sowle Cahill is J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College. In addition, she has been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, and a visiting professor of Catholic theology at Yale University. She earned her BA from Santa Clara University and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Cahill has written or edited 24 books and over 200 articles. Some of her books include: <em>Between the Sexes: Toward a Christian Ethics of Sexuality<\/em> (1985; seventh printing, l997); <em>Religion and Artificial Reproduction: Inquiry into the Vatican Instruction on Human Life<\/em> (1988); <em>Women and Sexuality<\/em> (1992);<em> \u2018Love Your Enemies\u2019: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory <\/em>(1994); <em>Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics<\/em> (1996); <em>Family: A Christian Social Perspective<\/em> (2000); <em>Bioethics and the Common Good<\/em> (2004); <em>Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change<\/em> (2005); <em>Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal<\/em>, ed. with John Garvey and T. Frank Kennedy (2006); <em>Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics<\/em> (2013); <em>Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding<\/em> (2019); and <em>Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today<\/em>, co-edited with Nicolete Burbach (2024). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1992-1993). In 2008, she was awarded the John Courtney Murray Award by the Catholic Theological Society of America, and in 2024, she was awarded the Ann O&#8217;Hara Graff award. In 2020, seventeen of her doctoral students contributed to the festschrift published in her honor\u2014<em>Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill\u2019s Contributions to Christian Ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Marla Frederick (Harvard Divinity) <\/u><\/p>\n<p>Marla Frederick is Dean of Harvard Divinity School. Before assuming her role in 2024, Dean Frederick served as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University\u2019s Candler School of Theology. She served on the Harvard faculty from 2003 to 2019, including as an assistant professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, with a joint appointment on the Committee on the Study of Religion. In 2008, she was named the Morris Kahn Associate Professor and then as a tenured Harvard professor in 2010. Frederick is the author or co-author of four books, including <em>Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global <\/em>(2015) and<em> Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith <\/em>(2003). As general editor, she is currently curating, alongside five co-editors, an encyclopedia of the histories of historically Black colleges and universities. Dean Frederick was the 2008-09 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2016, she received a Harvard College Professor Distinguished Teaching Award. She also served as president of the American Academy of Religion (2021) and has been president of the Association of Black Anthropologists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Catherine Pakaluk (The Catholic University of America)<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is Associate Professor of Economics at The Catholic University of America and Executive Director of The Institute for Human Ecology. She earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her AM and PhD from Harvard University. Pakaluk is the author of the ethnography <em>Hannah\u2019s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth <\/em>(2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility, and <em>Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? The Answer is No\u2014Here\u2019s Why<\/em>, with Trent Horn (2020). Her work has been reviewed or covered in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>Slate<\/em>, <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, <em>The Times (of London)<\/em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, <em>Freakonomics Radio<\/em>, <em>NPR<\/em>, <em>Fox News<\/em>, and more. She is also the 2015 recipient of the Acton Institute\u2019s Novak Award for \u201csignificant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.\u201d Beyond her formal training in economics, Pakaluk studied Catholic social thought under the mentorship of F. Russell Hittinger, and various aspects of Thomistic thought with Steven A. Long. She lives in Maryland with her husband Michael Pakaluk and eight children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College) Lisa Sowle Cahill is J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College. 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