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Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation and Brandeis University Contact the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project:
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About the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project: Current Staff
DirectorBernadette J. Brooten
Project Administrator
Doe West, PhD
Publications Editor
J. L. Hazelton
Research
Jennifer Nash
Web Site
Xiaolu Xiong
Bernadette J. Brooten
Director, Principal Investigator
| Bernadette J. Brooten, director of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, is Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies and Professor of Women’s Studies at Brandeis University and a former MacArthur Fellow. She has also held fellowships from the Harvard Law School, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and many other granting agencies. Brooten is currently writing a book on early Christian women who were enslaved or who were slave-holding, and she is editing a volume on slavery’s long shadow over the lives of girls and women that will focus on the intersection of slavery, religion, women, and sexuality. She has written Women Leaders in The Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982) and Love Between Women:Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), for which she received three awards. In addition, she has published articles on Paul and the Jewish Law, Jewish epigraphy, papyrological and literary evidence for Jewish women's power to initiate divorce in antiquity, and on various topics of ancient Jewish and early Christian women's history. |  |
Brooten studied German at the University of Portland (B.A. 1971), Roman Catholic and Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen; Talmud and Jewish history at Hebrew University and the University of Tübingen; and New Testament, ancient post-Biblical Judaism, and early Christian literature at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1982). She previously taught at the School of Theology at Claremont, the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tübingen, Harvard Divinity School, and the Department of Theology of the University of Oslo in Norway.
Contact: brooten -at- brandeis.edu
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Doe West
Project Administrator
West has served as a social justice advocate for over 25 years, with a special emphasis on issues surrounding Native American Women (she is of the Lenni Lenpe Tribe) and women with disabilities and teaches and is published within the field of bioethics. West holds a PhD in Law, Policy and Society from Northeastern University, a MS in Counseling from Boston University and both a BA in Sacred Literature and n MDiv in Pasoral Counseling from Logos Bible College. She is ordained and serves as a Chaplain on a volunteer basis with hospice organizations. West currently serves as the Director of Student Disability Services part time at Regis College, teaches part time in Psychology at Boston University and at the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project she serves as the Project Administrator.
Contact: fse_project -at- brandeis
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J.L. Hazelton
Publications Editor
J.L. Hazelton is a doctoral candidate in the Politics Department at Brandeis University, where she is studying international security. Her interests include asymmetric warfare, insurgency, terrorism, and Islamic political thought. Hazelton holds a BA and an MA in English from the University of Chicago, and an MA in International Relations from Chicago as well. Hazelton came to Brandeis after a career as an international journalist, including a 12-year stint with The Associated Press as a reporter, editor and broadcaster. Reporting from the United Nations to Tokyo, her byline has appeared around the world. As an editor, she has helped shape coverage of major stories from the Mississippi River Flood of 1993 to the Iraq war. At the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, Hazelton is editing essays for a volume of the contributor s collected works.Back to Top
Jennifer Nash
Research
Jennifer Christine Nash is a fourth year doctoral student in African-American Studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation, "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography" examines Golden and Silver Age pornographic representations of black women. She received an A.B. in women' s studies from Harvard College in 2001, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004.
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Xiaolu Xiong
Web Editor, Web Layout and Maintenance
Xiaolu Xiong is a graduate student in Computer Science at Brandeis University. He has served as Web Master for FSE project.
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Contacts: xiong-at- brandeis.edu
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