academia
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Where Was Philosophia at the AAR Annual Meeting?
One of the things that I really appreciated about the sessions that I chose to attend at the AAR was the prevalence of women’s voices, but I was equally disturbed to hear about the shutting down of women’s voices occurring… Continue reading
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“Two Strikes”: Why I Write for “Women in Theology”
About twenty years ago, my then-husband landed a job at a decidedly modern prairie university. I was still working on my PhD and had one baby and another on the way. When I applied for sessional teaching, the Chair of Religion… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: Room to Breathe
I first came across WIT in 2010 at the recommendation of a professor during my MTS. The site caught my attention right away. It was in the earlier days of my academic theological study and the idea that we were… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: The Gender Disparity of Historical Theology
It is this space for women to develop, discuss, and share their ideas that I find so important in WIT. Continue reading
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Work-Life Balance and Parenting Styles: Bringing Up Bébé
A few days after I wrote my last post on work-life balance in academia, a dialogue broke out between the Catholic Moral Theology blog and Women in Theology about work-life balance in the context of motherhood in academia. My post… Continue reading
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Selfishness, Selflessness, and the Work-Life Balance in Academia
One of the things that I struggle with in graduate school is finding the work-life balance that allows me to be content with the amount of work that I put in and still take time for myself that allows me… Continue reading
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A Mother in Theology
There are some challenges present to dissertating mothers that don’t seem to be present to dissertating fathers. Continue reading
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Coping with Emotionally Difficult Material
Theologians urgently need to engage the realities of suffering and violence in the world in order for contemporary theology to remain authentic. Yet, this can be an exhausting and disturbing process. Theologians need to have strategies in place in order… Continue reading
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Is Affirmative Action ‘Reverse Racism’?
UC Berkeley’s College Republicans are putting on a “pay-by-race bake sale” in order to demonstrate what they consider to be the straightforwardly and obviously unjust nature of affirmative action, especially when used in the college admissions process. Their pricing menu… Continue reading