Marianne Sawicki, Ph.D., Ph.D

Curriculum Vitae

2530 Blair Avenue, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA

EDUCATION
  • Loyola College in Maryland, B.A., summa cum laude, major in philosophy, 1971
  • The University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Communications,1974
  • The Catholic University of America, M.A., Religion, 1978, Ph.D., Religion, 1984
  • The University of Kentucky, Ph.D., Philosophy, 1996
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

In Philosophy, 1990-2007
  • Presidential Fellow / Graduate Teaching Assistant in Philosophy, Univ. of Kentucky, 1990-94, 95-96
  • Visiting Graduate Student Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Religion, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1994-95
  • Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Midway College, 1995-97
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Eastern Kentucky University, spring 1998
  • Research Associate, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1998-99
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Morgan State University, 2000-2003
  • Lecturer in Philosophy, Juniata College, fall 2004 – spring 2007
  • Lecturer in Philosophy, Penn State Altoona, fall 2006 – spring 2009
In Religious Studies, 1976-90
  • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Religion, Catholic University of America, 1976-78
  • General Editor, The Liturgical Conference, 1978-80
  • Director of Graduate Programs in Religious Education, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology, Loyola Marymount University, 1981-84
  • Director of M.A. Program and Associate Professor of Religious Education, Lexington Theological Seminary, 1985-89
  • Guest Professor of Christian Education, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1989-90
In Media and Communications, 1971-75
  • Editor, Baltimore Jewish Times, 1971-72
  • Copy Editor, Baltimore Sun, 1972-73
  • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-74
  • Copy Editor, Miami Herald, 1974-75
  • Copy Editor, New York Daily News, 1975-1979, intermittently
HONORS AND RESEARCH AWARDS
  • Society of Biblical Literature, jointly with Israeli National Parks Authority
    Funded project:
    “The Gender Landscape of a Greco-Roman City: Development of a Critical Methodology for the Interpretation of Gendered Space in the Archaeology of First-Century Sepphoris in the Galilee.” 1993 (Archaeological research in Israel, including excavation field work as area supervisor for Russian-Israeli crew, May 1 to June 4, Univ. of S. Florida Excavations at Sepphoris; with follow-up research at the W.F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem, June 5-20, 1993.)
  • Society of Biblical Literature
    Funded project:
    “The Architectures of Purity: Everyday Urban Religious Resistances to Empire in Roman Galilee.” 1996 (Archaeological research in Israel, expanding earlier work on gender in archaeology, including field consultations and observations in Galilee and the Golan: Sepphoris, Yodfat, Gamla, Qatsrin, Beit Tsaida, followed by further consultations at the W.F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem and at Trinity College, Dublin, July 6-25, 1996.)
  • University of Notre Dame, Erasmus Institute
    Funded project for junior faculty research fellowship, 1998-99:
    “The Politics of Empathy: Community and the Motivation of Personal Choice.”
  • Morgan State University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2002
    Funded project:
    “State Versus Race: Editing, Translation, and Critical Notes for an Anti-Fascist Treatise in Political and Racial Theory First Published in 1925 by Holocaust Victim Edith Stein.”
  • Fulbright Program Senior Faculty Associate
    Selected by Visiting Fulbright Research Scholar, Professor Oleg Karmadonov of Irkutsk State University, and by U.S. Department of State, for 2002-03. Funded project:
    “The Role of Religious Institutions in Social Change.”
BOARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Boards and community service:

Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, New York, since 1999

Fellow of Westar Institute, Santa Rosa, CA, since March 2004

Trustee of the Morgan Christian Interfaith Center, 2000-03

Advisory Council of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, 2001-04

Institutional Review Board, Morgan State University, 2002-03

Member, Advisory Board of The Ron Brown Memorial Center For Religious, Political and Social Dialogue, Baltimore, affiliated with the Interdenominational Theological Center of Atlanta, Georgia, 2002-04

Pennsylvania Prison Society, 2003-present; Huntingdon County Official Visitor 2004-06

Professional Societies:

American Philosophical Association
Catholic Biblical Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy


PUBLICATIONS

B O O K S

Catechesis, Realities and Visions: A Symposium on the Catechesis of Children and Youth. Ed. by Berard Marthaler and Marianne Sawicki. Washington: Dept. of Education, United States Catholic Conference, 1977.

Faith and Sexism: Guidelines for Religious Educators. New York: Seabury Press, 1979.

The Gospel in History: Portrait of a Teaching Church: The Origins of Christian Education. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.

Seeing the Lord: Resurrection and Early Christian Practices. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.

What Is “Contemporary” Worship? With Paul Westermeyer and Paul Bosch. Open Questions in Worship, volume 2. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995.

Body, Text, and Science: The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein. Phaenomenologica volume 144. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

Crossing Galilee: Architectures of Contact in the Occupied Land of Jesus. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000.

Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities, by Edith Stein. Ed. by Marianne Sawicki, with introduction and critical notes. Trans. by Mary Catharine Baseheart and Marianne Sawicki. The Collected Works of Edith Stein, volume 7. Washington, DC : ICS Publications, 2000. [Beiträge zur philosophischen Begrundung der Psychologie und der Geisteswissenschaften. 1922. 283 pp.]

An Investigation Concerning the State, by Edith Stein. Ed. and translated by Marianne Sawicki, with introduction and critical notes. The Collected Works of Edith Stein, volume 10. Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 2006. [Eine Untersuchung über den Staat. 1925. 123 pp.]

C H A P T E R S   I N   E D I T E D   V O L U M E S

“Tradition and Sacramental Education.” Theological Approaches to Christian Education, 43-62, 265-270. Edited by Jack Seymour and Donald Miller, Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.

“Spatial Management of Gender and Labor in Greco-Roman Galilee.” Archaeology and the World of Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Roman and Byzantine Periods, 7-27. University of South Florida Studies in Judaica. Edited by Douglas R. Edwards and Thomas McCollough. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

“Magdalenes and Tiberiennes: City Women and the Entourage of Jesus.” Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-Viewed, 181-202. Edited by Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

“Going to Church: A Parish Geography.” Changing Churches: The Local Church and the Structures of Change, 111-137. Edited by Michael Warren. Portland, OR: Pastoral Press, 2000.

“Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart Paleochurch.” The Church as Counterculture, 59-87. SUNY Series in Popular Culture and Political Change. Edited by Michael L. Budde and Robert W. Brimlow. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

“Making Jesus.” A Feminist Companion to Mark. Edited by A.J. Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

“Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities: The Jahrbuch Treatises of 1922.” The Philosophy of Edith Stein, 69-95. Eighteenth Annual Symposium Volume of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, 2001.

“Catechesis and Resurrection.” Die Wirklichkeit der Auferstehung: Biblische Zeugnisse und heutiges Erkennen, 77-91. Edited by Hans Joachim Eckstein and Michael Welker. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2002.

“Yes.” Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith, 105-119. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Marya Brower and Ruth Groenhout. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

“The Humane Community: Husserl Versus Stein.” Husserl and Stein, 141-54. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series I. Culture and Values, vol. 1. Edited by Richard Feist and William Sweet. Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2003.

“Edith Stein’s Critique of David Hume’s Association Theory.” Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 138-147. Edited by Mette Lebech. Maynooth: The Irish Philosophical Society, 2004.

“Personal Connections: The Phenomenology of Edith Stein” [reprint of 1999 online publication]. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 148-169. Edited by Mette Lebech. Maynooth: The Irish Philosophical Society, 2004.

“No Graven Thing: Renouncing Idolatry in Religious Education.” Hermeneutics and Religious Education, 269-88.

“Response to Paul Vermeer ‘Learning Religion in a Plural Society’,” Hermeneutics and Religious Education, 173-6. Biblioteca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. Edited by H. Lombaerts and D. Pollefeyt. Louvain: Peeters, 2004.

“Person or Practice: Judging in James and in Paul.” The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity, 385-408. Novum Testamentum Supplements, vol. 115. Edited by Bruce Chilton and Craig Evans. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

“Categorical Imperatives for Fugitive Slaves: Some Topographical Axioms of Deontology.” Lived Topographies and their Mediational Forces, 183-201. Edited by Gary Backhaus and John Murungi. Papers of the 2003 annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Geography, Towson, MD. Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2005.

“Making Up Husserl’s Mind About Constitution.” Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. Ed. William Desmond. Maynooth: Irish Philosophical Society, 2007.

“Who Wouldn’t Marry Jesus?” A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne. Edited by Zuleika Rodgers with Margaret Daly-Denton and Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley. Leiden: Brill, 2009. (Submitted August 2005)

S E L E C T E D   J O U R N A L  A R T I C L E S
(complete list available upon request)

“Religion, Symbol, and the Twenty-Year-Old Demythologizer.” Horizons 11 (1984) 320-343.

“Historical Methods and Religious Education.” Religious Education 82 (1987) 375-389.

“Recognizing the Risen Lord.” Theology Today 44 (1988) 441-449.

“Educational Policy and Christian Origins.” Religious Education 85 (1990) 455-477.

“Teaching as a Gift of Peace.” Theology Today 47 (1991) 377-387.

“Archaeology as Space Technology: Digging for Gender and Class in Holy Land.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 6/4 (1994) 319-348.

“Having Been Outed as a Crypto-Christian Anti-Semite, Can One Say 'Shalom'? Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 9 (1997) 283-293.

“Chronology of Writings of Edith Stein.” The Husserl Homepage, secondary sources. http://sac. uky.edu/~rsand1/ hus_r2st.html. Updated 1999, 2001.

“Empathy Before and After Husserl.” Philosophy Today 41 (1997) 123-127.

E N C Y C L O P E D I A   E N T R I E S

“Feminist Hermeneutic.” New Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw Hill, 1967 - . Supplement for 1988.

“Homiletics.” International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

“History of Christian Education, Early Period.” Harper's Encyclopedia of Religious Education, 294-296. Edited by Iris V. Cully and Kendig Brubaker Cully. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

“Prejudice.” Harper's Encyclopedia of Religious Education, 499-500. Edited by Iris V. Cully and Kendig Brubaker Cully. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

“Symbolism.” Harper's Encyclopedia of Religious Education, 629-631. Edited by Iris V. Cully and Kendig Brubaker Cully. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

“Edmund Husserl.” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1995. http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/ husserl.htm.

S E L E C T E D  R E V I E W S

“Booknotes,” regular review column in Commonweal, issues of 1981-82.

Review editor for titles in Religious Education and general works in Religion, Religious Studies Review, 1987-90.

Review essay comparing six works: The Catholic Sacraments, by Joseph Martos; Sacramental Realism: A General Theory of the Sacraments, by Colman E. O'Neill; Sacraments and Passages: Celebrating the Tensions of Modern Life, by Gerard Fourez; A New Look at the Sacraments, second edition, by William J. Bausch; Introduction to the Sacraments, by John P. Schanz; Sacraments and Sacramentality, by Bernard Cooke. The Living Light 20 (1984) 269-274.

Combined review of four works: Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present, by Harold O.J. Brown; Miracles and the Critical Mind, by Colin Brown; Women and Religion in America Vol. II: The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller; Let Me Hear Your Voice: Portraits of Aging Immigrant Jews, by Mimi E. Handlin and Marilyn Smith Layton. Los Angeles Times, April 22 (Easter Sunday), 1984.

Review of Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the “Feminine,” by Kelly Oliver. Colloquia Germanica 29/4 (1997) 371-373.

Review of Jesus of Nazareth, by Joseph Ratzinger (English translation and German original, comparatively), The Fourth R, November 2007.


INVITED LECTURES

“Christian Pedagogy and the Gift of Peace.” Annual Religious Heritage Lecture, McPherson College, Kansas, 1990.

“Education and Diversity.” Keynote address for a special two-day pre-meeting consultation of the College Theology Society, Chicago, 1991.

“Decision and Spontaneity in the Pre-Baptismal Philosophy of Edith Stein.” Public lecture sponsored by McKeever Chair of Moral Theology, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, October 14, 1998.

“Personal Connections: The Pre-Baptismal Philosophy of Edith Stein.” Public lecture, Carmelite Monastery, Baltimore, MD, November 13, 1998

Invited panelist for discussion of “Edith Stein: Jew, Catholic, Saint: A Jewish-Catholic Dialogue on Conversion, Religious Identity and Holocaust Interpretation.” College of Holy Cross, October 20, 1999.

“Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities: The Jahrbuch Treatises of 1922.” Eighteenth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, March 10-11, 2000. [Published in The Philosophy of Edith Stein, 69-95. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, 2001.]

“Edith Stein: Martyr or Victim at Auschwitz?” Lecture for annual Week of Remembrance of the Holocaust, Newman Center, Towson University, Baltimore, MD, April 2001.

“Gospel Currents.” The 2002 T.V. Moore Lectures at San Francisco Theological Seminary, April 3 to 5, 2002. Available on videotape from the Seminary.

“Church as Strategy” and “Caliphate or City of God? When Someone Else’s Medieval Metaphor Moves in Next Door,” invited lectures at Vancouver Theological Seminary and Green College of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 6 and 7, 2007.


SELECTED PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
(Complete list is available upon request.)

“The Persuasive Alabastron: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Woman's Pantomime in Mark 14:3-9.” Paper presented to the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Münster, Germany, 1993.

“Comments on Practices and Theories in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.” Response to papers on archaeology panel at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, 1993.

“Spatial Management of Gender and Labor in Late Roman Sepphoris.” Paper presented at the regional meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, 1994.

Presider for session on “Identity and Subjectivity,” for Theology and Continental Philosophy Group (for which I served on steering committee). American Academy of Religion, national meeting, Chicago, 1994.

“The 'Natural History' of Women in the Rhetoric and Practices of 'The New Archaeology' of the 1960's and 1970's.” Interdisciplinary conference on “The Women, Gender, and Science Question,” University of Minnesota, 1995.

“Making Up Husserl's Mind About Constitution.” Paper presented to the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, New York, 1995.

“Path, Not Place: A Critique of Standpoint and Boundary Theories With Reference to the Displacements of Archaeology.” Paper presented to the inaugural assembly of the Kentucky Social Theory Commonwealth, conference on “Identity As/At the Border,” University of Kentucky, 1995.

“Empathy Before and After Husserl.” Paper presented to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, 1995.

“Edith Stein on the State: A Critique of Race Theory from 1925.” Invitational research symposium on “Phenomenology of the Political,” Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University, 1996.

“Going to Church: A Parish Geography.” Paper for invitational conference on the Material Conditions of the Local Church, Saint John’s University, New York, May 17-19, 1996.

Discussion of my book Body, Text, and Science at “Current Research” Session, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, October 1998. Commentaries by Peter Schulz and by Amy Morgenstern.

“Gender Round the Kinneret: Doorsteps, Wharves, and Highways in the Archaeology of Galilean Mind.” Joint Section on Archaeology and the Ancient World, Society of Biblical Literature and American Schools of Oriental Research, Regional Meeting of SECSOR, March 20-22, 1998, Knoxville.

“Stein for Sinners: The Intellectual Legacy of the Woman Who Should Have Been Heidegger.” Interdisciplinary faculty colloquium, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, October 15, 1998.

“Canonization as Mixed Blessing: The Crediting and Discrediting of Edith Stein in the Academy.” Presentation to Gender Studies Forum, University of Notre Dame, October 29, 1998.

“Magdalenes and Tiberiennes: Herodian Ladies as Promoters of Jesus.” Paper for the Historical Jesus Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Orlando, November 23, 1998.

“Going After Virtue: Following MacIntyre (Halfway) into Babel.” Paper presented to the Kentucky Philosophical Association, April 18, Lexington, KY, 1999.

“Yeshua and the Water: How the Kinneret Became Mediterranean.” Paper invited and presented for a panel on “The Historical Jesus and Archaeology in the Year 2000" at a special session of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville, TN, November 2000.

“The Defeat of Hume’s Association Theory in Edith Stein’s Psychology.” Paper invited and presented for a panel on “Contemplating Edith Stein” for the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers, at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 2000.

“The Judge at the Doors: Law, Kinship, and Mobility in the Kingdom of God.” Paper for invitational research conference on Paul and James. Institute for Applied Theology, Bard College, Annandale, NY, November 2001.

“Energy: A Psychology of the Not Quite Individual Person.” Paper for a panel on The Phenomenological Psychology of Edith Stein, organized at my initiative, for the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Chicago, October 2002.

“No Graven Thing: Renouncing Idolatry in Religious Education.” Paper invited for international interdisciplinary seminar on Hermeneutics and Religious Education, Louvain, Belgium, January 2003.

Fugitives at Towson Town Center Mall: Spatializations of the Categorical Imperative by Young People of Color.” Paper presented in session on Social Topology at the Annual International Conference on Philosophy and Geography, Towson State University, April 2003.

“Gender and the Galilean Built Environment: What Can We Know, and How Can We Know It?” Invited presentation for Catholic Biblical Association, Task Force on Feminist Hermeneutics, San Francisco, August 2003.

“Parliamentary Democracy and the Choice to Choose.” Paper accepted for presentation to the Third World Congress of Phenomenology, University of Oxford, England, August 2004.

Comments and response for a session on my book Crossing Galilee, Historical Jesus Section, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 19, 2005.

“Postcolonial Issues Post-Calvary: Which Imperial Overlay Defined Galilee? (the Roman-Herodian, or the Judean-Hasmonean?), presented to the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins, March 2007 meeting.


PASTORAL & POPULAR ESSAYS, 1979 - 1995
Complete list is available upon request.


ADULT EDUCATION & PASTORAL COMMITMENTS, 1979 - 2005
Complete list is available upon request.

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