The Center's Staff

Pilar Aquino, S.T.D., Associate Director
Alberto Pulido, Ph.D., Associate Director
Michelle Morris, Administrative Assistant

(N.B.- The following information does not include complete listings of past academic positions, the full list of publications, services to the profession, or honors and awards. For complete curricula vitarum , please address the individuals concerned directly.)

Prof. Dr. María Pilar Aquino (aquino@sandiego.edu)

- Center's Associate Director, and USD Professor of Theology and Religious Studies.

- S.T.D., Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain), 1990.

- Professional Honors and Awards:

Honorary Doctorate in Theology. University of Helsinki (Finland), 1999.

Recipient of the 1997 "Virgil Elizondo Award." Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the U.S.

Recipient of the 1999-2000 "Christian Faith & Life Sabbatical Grant." The Louisville Institute.
 
First "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" Professor of Latina Feminist Theology (2000). Hispanic Summer Program.

USD University Professor (2002-2003).

Recipient of the 2006 "Ann O’Hara Graff Memorial Award." Women’s Seminar in Constructive Theology of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

- Service to the Profession:

Founding member and past president. Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States.

Board of Directors (past), Concilium, Revue Internationale de Théologie.

Board of Directors (past), Catholic Theological Society of America.

Coordinator (past), Hispanic Pastoral Ministry Program. Graduate Religious Studies, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles.

Chair (past), Best Article Award Committee. Catholic Theological Society of America.

Board of Editors. Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology.

Board of Editors. Journal of the American Academy of Religion .

Board of Editors. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Board of Editors. Journal Reflexión y Liberación.

Scientific Committee. Journal Theologica Xaveriana.

Advisory Board. Sheed & Ward Board for Catholic Publishing.

Advisory Board. Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual.

Board of Directors. Tepeyac Institute. Diocese of El Paso, TX.

Member of the jury for the International Prize for Contextual Theology and Philosophy. Missio Institute of Missiology (Germany).

Mentor of Doctoral Students. Hispanic Theological Initiative.

- Among Aquino's publications:

Aportes para una Teología Desde la Mujer (Madrid: Biblia y Fe, 1988).

Our Cry for Life (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993).

Teología, Iglesia y Mujer en América Latina (Bogotá: IndoAmerican Press, 1994).

Teología Feminista Latinoamericana, with Elsa Tamez (Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1998). 

Entre la Indignación y la Esperanza: Teología Feminista Latinoamericana, ed. with Ana María Tepedino (Bogotá: Indo-American Press & EATWOT, 1998).

Theology: Expanding the Borders, ed. with Roberto Goizueta (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998).

In the Power of Wisdom: Feminist Spiritualities of Struggle, ed. with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (London: SCM Press, 2000).

The Return of the Just War, ed. with Dietmar Mieth (London: SCM Press, 2001).

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice, ed. with Daisy L. Machado and Jeanette Rodríguez (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).

Reconciliation in a World of Conflicts, ed. with Luis Carlos Susin (London: SCM Press, 2003).

Feminist Intercultural Theology: Latina Explorations for a Just World, ed. with Maria José Rosado-Nunes (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books 2007).

- Research interests:

Socio-ethical dimensions of Christianity in the contemporary world, Global studies and democratic movements, Feminist critical theories and theologies, Intercultural theologies and philosophies, Women and migration; Conflict prevention, processes of reconciliation and peacemaking.

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Prof. Dr. Alberto López Pulido (apulido@sandiego.edu)

 - Center Associate Director, and USD Professor of Ethnic Studies and Sociology.

- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (1989)

- Professional Honors and Awards:

First Prize for Best Article on Religious History, San Diego Historical Society (1991). Awarded by Ecumenical Conference.

Semi-Finalist: Superior Teaching Award, College of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Utah (1992)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Chicano Studies and Department of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara (1995)

NEH Summer Institute Scholar, "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and Mexico City " (1998)

Charles C. Irby Distinguished Service Award. National Association for Ethnic Studies (1999)

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Fellow. Office of Minority Health, and Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Faculty Development Program. Washington DC . (1999)

Dr. Manuel Servin Faculty Award. Chicano Faculty and Staff Association, Arizona State University . (2000)

Erasmus Institute Summer Faculty Seminar, “Religion, Race, and Social Justice.” St. John's University (2002)

Collegium: Summer Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Life (2004)

- Service to the Profession:

Founding Member. Religion and American Culture: A Caucus of the American Studies Association.

Committee Member. Committee on American Studies Programs. American Studies Association.

Advisory Board Member. Hispanic Institute of Theology, Drew University Theological School.

Advisory Board. Human Pursuits: The Western Humanities Concern.

Executive Council Member. National Association for Ethnic Studies.

Board of Editors. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Journal.

Board of Editors. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology Journal.

Board of Editors. Ethnic Studies Review: Journal for the National Association for Ethnic Studies.

- Among López Pulido's Publications:

"Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe: The Mexican Catholic Experience in San Diego ," in: The Journal of San Diego History , 38:1 (Winter 1992). Awarded "First Prize for Best Article on Religious History."

"Mexican American Catholicism in the Southwest: The Transformation of a Popular Religion," in: Perspectives in Mexican American Studies: Emerging Themes in Mexican American Research , vol. 4 (1993).

"Presbiterianos mexicanos: Una perspectiva materialista de la religión y del trabajo en el Sur de Tejas," in: Cristianismo y Sociedad , nn. 118-19 (Winter 1994).

Latino Studies Journal . Special issue editor: "The Religious Experience in the Latino Community." Edited with David Abalos, vol. 5, n. 3 (September 1994).

"Relazioni etniche nella chiesa cattolica americana . L'experienza messicano-cattolica," in: Religioni e Società , X:21 (January-April,1995).

"Lyrics of the Penitentes: The Contributions of the Hermanos Penitentes to Roman Catholicism in New Mexico ," in: Seeds of Struggle - Harvest of Faith , Thomas J. Steele, ed. (Albuquerque: LPD Press, 1998).

"Sacred Expressions of the Popular: An Examination of Los Hermanos Penitentes of New Mexico and Los Hermanos Cheos of Puerto Rico ," in: Centro : Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies , XI:2 (Spring 2000).

The Sacred World of the Penitentes. ( Washington DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000).

Pulido, Alberto López, "To Arrive is to Begin: Benjamin Sánez's Carry Me Like Water and the Pilgrimage of Origins in the Borderlands," in: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 25:1 (Winter 2001:special issue on "The Literature and Popular Culture of the U.S.-Mexican Border").

“Chicano Religions through Chicano Literature: Reinscribing Chicano Religions as a Hermeneutics of Movement,” in: Religion and Literature , 35: 2 (Summer 2003).

“Engraving Emotions: Memory and Identity in the Quest for Emotive Scholarship,” in: Cross Currents , 54:2 (Summer 2004).

Chicano Religions: Understanding the Sacred in Chicana/o History. ( University of Arizona Press , forthcoming).

“The Lord Requires Justice: Lessons on Leadership from the African American Church for Mexican American Catholics”, with Santos Vega, in: Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States , Gastón Espinoza,Virgil Elizondo and Jesse Miranda, eds.. ( New York : Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

- Research interests :

The intersection of racial identity, religious expression and community formation in the history of the Americas . Latina and Latino Religions. Storytelling, identity, and the Sacred. Latina/o spirituality, art and performance. Lived religious expressions. Ethnic and Chicana/o studies. Borderland studies.

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Ms. Michelle Morris (michellemorris@sandiego.edu)

- Center's Administrative Assistant and Webmaster.

- B.A., University of California at Berkeley.

- Ms. Morris's areas of interest include performance art, contact improvisation, expressive art therapy, political/social history, religion/spirituality, poetry, and improvisational music.

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