My research focuses on Catholic sisters and others in full-time religious life (priests, oblates) who are nonviolent peace activists and who change the media discourse. I also write about Catholic sisters globally. I also run an interfaith faculty beehive house next to Georgetown University's campus in the spirit of the Catholic Worker. www.publishingadvising.com/house On the more purely historical academic side I'm a scholar of women who lived from 1680-1720 who wrote about war, politics, foreign affairs, and other topics traditionally addressed by men.
MEDIA/BOOKS: With Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ (former editor-in-chief of the Jesuits' America magazine), I had the privilege of co-editing two books on nuclear disarmament with the Vatican for Georgetown University Press. The first one took second place for theology/ethics from the Catholic Media Association. http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/world-free-nuclear-weapons In February 2022 I published a book titled "Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli, for Liturgical Press (https://litpress.org/Products/3722/Transform-Now-Plowshares). I spent three years developing a book with Sr. Jeanne Clark OP, "All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming" for Robert Ellsberg at Orbis (https://orbisbooks.com/products/all-the-way-in-a-story-of-activism-incarceration-and-organic-farming). My previous books were with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and I have been on NPR, the BBC, in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, on CNN, 60 Minutes, and in many other national publications. I'm an Associate of the Society of the Sacred Heart, and I helped the RSCJ sister open Anne Montgomery House in Washington, DC.
Experience
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2006–presentDirector, Office of Scholarly Publications, Georgetown University
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1997–2006English Department faculty member, Georgetown University
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1994–1997Visiting scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill
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1992–1994Graduate Student Instructor, University of Virginia
Education
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1994The University of Virginia, PhD
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1992The University of Virginia, MA
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1990George Mason University, BA
Publications
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2023Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (co-edited with Drew Christiansen SJ, PhD), Georgetown University Pres
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2022Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli, Liturgical Press
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2020A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (co-edited with Drew Christiansen SJ, PhD), Georgetown University Press
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2018Why Ovid's Atalanta (and not Bacon's New Atlantis) was the Source of Delarivier Manley's Title "The New Atalantis", Notes & Queries
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2013Military Scandal and National Debt in Manley's New Atalantis, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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2011How a Pie Fight Satirizes Whig-Tory Conflict in Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis , Eighteenth-Century Studies
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2006Persistent Publishing Myths Among Scholarly Authors With Big-Bookstore Dreams, Change
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2000Traditional Degrees for Nontraditional Students, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Grants and Contracts
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2013Engaging India Grant
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- PI
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- Georgetown University
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1993Poe Travel Grant
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- University of Virginia
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1990Dupont Fellow
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- University of Virginia
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Society of Early Americanists
- National Press Club
- American Historical Association
- Associates of the Sacred Heart
- Frome Society for Local Study
Research Areas
- North American History (210312)
- Biography (210304)
- Archival, Repository And Related Studies (210201)
- History And Philosophy Of The Humanities (220207)
- History Of Ideas (220209)
- Religion And Society (220405)
- British History (210305)
- Creative Writing (Incl. Playwriting) (190402)
- Journalism And Professional Writing (1903)
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