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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
Bernadette J. Brooten
brooten@brandeis.edu
Bernadette J. Brooten, a MacArthur Fellow, is the Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. Her latest book, Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, won three book awards. Her other publications include: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues and articles on such topics as women's power to initiate divorce in ancient Judaism; Junia, a female apostle praised by the apostle Paul in his Letter to the Romans 16:7; and Jewish women's history in the Roman Period. She is currently writing a book on female slaves and female slave-owners in Early Christianity.
Brooten previously taught at the School of Theology at Claremont, the Claremont Graduate University, the University of Tübingen, Harvard University, and the University of Oslo. Previous awards include: fellowships from Harvard Law School, the Fulbright Foundation, the Naruth Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the Risq G. Haddad Foundation (for persons of Lebanese and Syrian origin). She has spent over ten years abroad, namely, in Germany, Israel, Austria, France, and Norway.
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RESEARCH ANALYST, Musicology
Melissa J. de Graaf
fse_project@brandeis.edu
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RESEARCH ANALYST, LAW
Elizabeth Kennedy
fse_project@brandeis.edu
Elizabeth Kennedy received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Iowa and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her third-year paper at Harvard explored the legal and scientific implications of the Supreme Court’s recent ban on the execution of the mentally retarded. She is also interested in employment discrimination and constitutional law.
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RESEARCH ANALYST, SLAVERY:
Monique Moultrie
mmoultrie@post.harvard.edu
Monique Moultrie received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Sociology from Duke University and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where her concentration was in the sexual ethics of Christianity and Islam. She is particularly interested in addressing African-American women's expressions of sexuality and the interconnection of religious communities and HIV/AIDS outreach programs.
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RESEARCH ANALYST, EARLY CHRISTIANITY:
Elizabeth Penland
fse_project@brandeis.edu
Elizabeth Penland is a Yale Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies, with specialization in the History of Ancient Christianity. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1994 cum laude, with High Honors in the Major of Religion (at Haverford College). She completed a concentration in Feminist and Gender Studies and minors in Latin and German. As an undergraduate, she was a Bryn Mawr Alumnae Scholar and she shared the Haverford Department of Religion Thesis Prize for 1994. Upon graduation, she received a DAAD Deutschlandjahr fellowship for 1994–95 to study Coptic at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Between 1990 and 1998, Elizabeth spent a total of 5 years in Germany, pursing studies in German, Coptic, and Egyptology at the Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin. In 1998, she was awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies to begin her graduate work at Yale University in the department of Religious Studies. At Yale, she was a Richard J. Franke Fellow from 1999–2001. In 2001, she received her M.A. and M.Phil. in Religious Studies. In 2002, she was awarded a John F. Enders Research Grant to work on Syriac manuscripts relating to her dissertation in the British Library. Her dissertation topic is martyrdom and the conception of history in the Fourth Century CE church historian Eusebius.
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PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR/EDITOR:
Elizabeth Stevens
estevens@brandeis.edu
Elizabeth Stevens received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Dartmouth College. She has worked as a writer and editor for non-profit organizations and for Encyclopaedia Britannica/Merriam-Webster. Elizabeth joined the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project in November, 2003. As Project Administrator/Editor, she provides managerial and research support while serving as editor for articles, Web content, and other Project publications.
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RESEARCH ANALYST, EARLY CHRISTIANITY:
Emma Wasserman
fse_project@brandeis.edu
Emma Wasserman is a Ph.D. candidate in New Testament at Yale University. She is currently working on a dissertation which explores ancient conceptions of the self and moral responsibility in Paul's letter to the Romans. Her interests center on Pauline exegesis, Hellenistic moral philosophy, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion. Her undergraduate thesis on gender and kinship relations in ancient Greek funerals was published as part of the Brown University Senior Honor Theses Series.
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