Research Grant Recipients

“N.H.I.: Three-Fifths Justice in the Twenty-First Century”

"The Last Jesuit"

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“Challenges to Thriving for the Marshallese Community in Washington State”

"Laudato Si', Technologies of Power, and Contemplation: A Search for Liberty, Equity, and Justice"

"From Somalia to Seattle: Theological Reflections on the Pacific Northwest's Muslim Refugees"

"Listening with One's Heart: Towards a Benedictine Model of Leadership in Turbulent Times" 

"Bhutan's Gross National Happiness in Dialogue with Laudato Si"

"Tax Policy Reforms and Income Inequality from a Catholic Social Thought Lens"

"Effective Pedagogy: Responses to Laudato Si’and Pope Francis’ Call for Ecological Education"

"Calling to Social Justice Work: Exploring the Contribution of Catholic Social Thought to Social Work Education"

"Occupy this Body: Mindfulness as Political and Recuperative Strategy"

"Laudato Si': Ecological Debt and Carbon: An Empirical Exploration"

"Mercy Within Mercy: The Heart of Pope Francis' Spiritual Leadership in a Broken World"

"Social Anger and the Struggle for Justice: Emotion, Grassroots Protest and Catholic Social Ethics"

"How Practicing Catholics Practice Teachings on Marriage, Family and Sexuality"

"The Wounds of Chirst"

"Eternal Being, Personhood, and Human Action in the Philosophy of Edith Stein"

"Subsidiarity and Corporate Governance: Working Toward a Common Good"

"Energia, the Stirring or Ardor, and the Poetic Mind of Robert Southwell, S.J."

"Demonic Mind Readers and Deceivers: What De Malo 16 Can Tell Us About OIntellectual Attention in Aquinas"

"Abraham Heschel's Personal papers Relating to Vatican II"

"Catholic Opinion and Fenian Raids into Canada, 1866-1871"

For her work on spirituality and religion in Latina/o and Chicana/o literature. 

For her project on the experiences of first-generation college students at Jesuit universities. 

“As a result of the grant I received from the Catholic Thought and Culture program, I was able to complete a book titled Rawlsian Reflections in Religion and Applied Philosophy (Penn State University Press). I was also able to complete some articles, all of which explored the implications of neoclassical or process theism. All of these works are attempts to drive a wedge between traditional theism, on the one hand, and religious skepticism, on the other.”

“The Catholic Thought and Culture Research Grant I received in 2011 enabled me to conduct research that resulted in conference presentations and publications. In England in the 1640s, after religious and political tensions turned into armed conflict between the High Church Anglican King Charles I and his Puritan Parliament, poet and Anglican priest Richard Crashaw converted to Catholicism and escaped Cambridge just before the Puritan army descended upon the city. My work examines the effects of Crashaw’s conversion on his representations of emotional states in his last, posthumous collection, Carmen Deo Nostro (1652). Without the generosity of the Catholic Thought and Culture Research Grant, neither my research on Crashaw’s Catholicism nor my ability to share it with colleagues in literary studies would have been possible.”