Four students from the Religious Studies department presented papers at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., March 12-13. The students are, left to right, Ann Marie Leonard, Emily Shore, John Penniman and Erin Keys.
Leonard won the award for the best undergraduate paper at the confernece. Her paper is titled “The Lives of Catholic Workers: Finding Refreshment in a Life Filled with Serving Others.”
Other paper titles included:
- Shore-“Finding a Home: Lesbian Women Reconciling Their Sexual Identity with the Church”
- Penniman-“The Politics of Reconciliation: A Reassessment of Political Theology”
- Keys-“The Practical Implications of Feminist Theology on the Life and Thought of the Christian Church.”
Keys, Leonard and Shore are Arts and Humanities Scholars and presented results from two years of research under the mentorship of Toddie Peters, assistant professor of religious studies and Distinguished Emerging Scholar.
Penniman’s research is the result of a SURE summer project and independent research under the mentorship of Juliane Hammer, assistant professor of religious studies, and Jeffrey Pugh, professor of religious studies.