DIANA FRITZ CATES
Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa 314 Gilmore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: 319-335-2172; FAX: 319-335-3716 E-mail: [email protected] March 2012
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Higher Education
1983-1990 Ph.D., Religious Studies, Brown University.
1979-1983 B.A., Philosophy, St. Olaf College.
Academic Positions
2010-present Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa.
2008-2009 Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa (interim).
1996-2010 Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa.
990-1996 Assistant Professor, School of Religion, University of Iowa.
1984-1989 Teaching Assistant, Brown University.
Honors and Awards
2011 Certificate of Nomination, University of Iowa Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award.
2011 University of Iowa Career Development Award.
2007-2008 University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant.
2007, 2005 Obermann Center Scholar.
2005 University of Iowa Career Development Award.
2004-2005 International Programs Major Research Project Award, “Human Rights Reading Group.” With Kenneth Cmiel (history) and Rex Honey (geography).
2003 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship for tenured faculty.
2002 New course, Ethics and the New Genetics, featured in Iowa Alumni Magazine, “It’s All in the Genes” by Leah Klevar.
2001-2002 University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant.
2001 Research featured in UI Arts and Sciences, “To Know, or Not?” by Lori Erickson. Cates 2
2001 nTITLE seminar and grant for purchase of technologies supporting classroom teaching.
2000 Dartmouth Summer Faculty Institute on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.
1999-2000 University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant.
1999 University of Iowa Semester Assignment Award.
1995 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Award.
1993 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Iowa Council on Teaching.
1993 University of Iowa Semester Assignment Award.
1993 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant.
1991 University of Iowa Old Gold Summer Fellowship.
1989 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
1989 Brown University Award for Excellence in Teaching.
1989 Brown University Dissertation Fellowship.
Memberships
The American Academy of Religion
The Society of Christian Ethics
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Books
Cates, Diana Fritz (2009). Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious-Ethical Inquiry. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), 288 pp.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1997). Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 298 pp.
Edited Books
Cates, Diana Fritz, and Paul Lauritzen, eds. (2001). Medicine and the Ethics of Care. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), 268 pp.
Journal Articles
Cates, Diana Fritz (2012). Love: A Thomistic Analysis. Journal of Moral Theology, ed. David McCarthy Cates 3 1/2, 1-30.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2010). Experiential Narratives of Rape and Torture. Journal of Religious Ethics, Sumner B. Twiss and John Kelsay, eds., 38/1, 43-66.
Joel Gereboff, Keith Green, Diana Fritz Cates, and Maria Heim (2009). The Nature of the Beast: Hatred in Cross-Traditional Religious and Philosophical Perspective. Essays integrated and edited by Cates. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 29/2, 175-205.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2006). Thomas Aquinas on Intimacy and Emotional Integrity. Studies in Spirituality, Kees Waaijman, Hein Blommestijn, Wendy Litjens, eds., 16, 111-130.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2005). The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Christine Gudorf and Paul Lauritzen, eds., 25/1, 35-53.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2004). Honoring the Religious Impulse within the Arena of Genetic Counseling. Update, ed. Mark Carr, 19/1, 8-16.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2003). Conceiving Emotions: Martha Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought. Journal of Religious Ethics, Sumner B. Twiss and John Kelsay, eds., 31/2, 325-341.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1998). Ethics, Literature, and the Emotional Dimension of Moral Understanding. Journal of Religious Ethics, Sumner B. Twiss and John Kelsay, eds., 26/2, 409-431.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1992). Wickedness. Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, ed. Diane Yeager, 251- 62.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1991). Toward an Ethic of Shared Selfhood. Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, ed. Harlan Beckley, 249-57.
Chapters in Edited Books
Cates, Diana Fritz and Jordan Smith (2011). Vice. Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel B. Green (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic), 806-808.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2005). Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral Character, and the Religious Imagination. Seeking Goodness and Beauty: The Use of Arts in Theological Ethics, Patricia Lamoureux and Kevin O’Neil, eds. Lanham, Md.: Roman and Littlefield (Communication, Culture, and Theology Series), 33-54.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2002). The Virtue of Temperance. The Ethics of Aquinas, ed. Stephen J. Pope. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), 321-339.
Cates, Diana Fritz, and Paul Lauritzen (2001). Introduction. Medicine and the Ethics of Care, Cates and Lauritzen, eds. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), xiii-xxxiv.
Cates, Diana Fritz (2001). Caring for Girls and Women Who are Considering Abortion: Rethinking Informed Consent. Medicine and the Ethics of Care, Cates and Lauritzen, eds. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), 162-203.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1999). Imaging and Speaking of God. Practice What You Preach: Virtue Ethics and Power in the Lives of Church Ministers and Their Congregations, James Keenan and Joseph Kotva, eds. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed and Ward, 171-185. Cates 4
Cates, Diana Fritz (1996). Taking Women's Experience Seriously: Thomas Aquinas and Audre Lorde on Anger. Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives, ed. G. Simon Harak, S.J. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Moral Traditions Series), 47-88.
Cates, Diana Fritz (1994). Commentary on Genetic Knowledge and Self-Understanding. Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics, Robert F. Weir, Susan C. Lawrence, and Evan Fales, eds. Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa Press, 59-62.
Scholarly Forums
Cates, Diana Fritz. Jonathan Wyn Schofer’s “Drought.” Religion and Culture Web Forum. Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago (http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/webforum/012012/Cates%20response%20to%20S chofer%20Final.pdf), 1-3.
Book Reviews
The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion. By Nicholar E. Lombardo, O.P. Modern Theology 28/2 (2012), 339-341.
Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization. By Maureen H. O’Connell. Theological Studies 71/3 (2010), 760-1.
Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions. Edited by Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green, and John Witte. Religious Studies Review 32/4 (2006), 243.
Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good. By Susanne M. Decrane. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 28/2 (2006), 221-223.
Dismantling Privilege: An Ethics of Accountability. By Mary Elizabeth Hobgood. Religious Studies Review 27/2 (2001), 156-7.
A New Paradigm for Informed Consent. By Irene S. Switankowsky. Religious Studies Review 26/1 (2000), 63.
In the Path of Virtue: The African American Moral Tradition. By Samuel K. Roberts. Religious Studies Review 26/1 (2000), 64.
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas’s Ethics. By John Bowlin. Religious Studies Review 26/1 (2000), 64-5.
Ruling Passions. By Simon Blackburn. Religious Studies Review 25/4 (1999), 394.
Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified. By Stanley Hauerwas. Religious Studies Review 25/4 (1999), 395.
Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven “Deadly” Sins. Edited by Robert C. Solomon. Religious Studies Review 25/4 (1999), 395.
Aristotle’s Ethics: Critical Essays. Edited by Nancy Sherman. Religious Studies Review 25/4 (1999), 393.
Formation of the Moral Self. By Johannes A. van der Ven. Reviews in Religion and Theology 6/2 (1999), Cates 5 195-8.
The Risk of Being: What it Means to be Good and Bad. By Michael Gelven. Religious Studies Review 24/4 (1998), 395-6.
Virtue Ethics: A Critical Reader. Edited by Daniel Statman. Religious Studies Review 24/4 (1998), 396.
Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics. By Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches. Ethics 108/4 (1998), 851.
Religion and Morality: An Introduction. By Paul W. Diener. Religious Studies Review 24/2 (1998), 182.
Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War. By John P. Reeder, Jr. Religious Studies Review 23/4 (1997), 382.
Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition. Edited by Charles E. Curran, Margaret A. Farley, and Richard A. McCormick. Religious Studies Review 23/4 (1997), 379.
The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice. By Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma. Religious Studies Review 23/2 (1997), 160.
Moral Issues: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives. Edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez. Religious Studies Review 23/1 (1997), 50.
Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by Robert L. Brawley. Religious Studies Review 23/1 (1997), 51-2.
Ethical Dilemmas: Crises in Faith and Modern Medicine. Edited by John T. Chirban. Religious Studies Review 22/4 (1996), 341.
Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads. By Gil Bailie. Religious Studies Review 22/4 (1996), 341.
Virtuous Passions: The Formation of Christian Character. By G. Simon Harak, S.J. Soundings 77:3/4, 487-9.
The Church with AIDS. Edited by Letty Russell. Religious Studies Review 18/2 (1992), 221.
Despair: Sickness or Sin? Hopelessness and Healing in the Christian Life. By Mary Louise Bringle. Journal of Religion (1992), 323-4.
Professional Ethics in Context: Institutions, Images, and Empathy. By Eric Mount, Jr. Religious Studies Review 18/1 (1992), 47.
Papers and Presentations
Professional Meetings, Conferences, and Invited Addresses
2012 “Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing.” Plenary address. Eighth Annual Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference at Iowa, “Futures and Illusions: Hope and the Longing for Utopia.”
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2011 “Hatred and the Problem of Violence.” Invited address. Stanford University.
2011 Breakfast with an Author. Discussion of Cates, Aquinas on the Emotions. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2010 “Ethos and Ethics of Care in Healthcare Settings.” Plenary address. The Ethics of Care: Relationship-Based Models, Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa.
2010 “Aquinas on the Emotions: An Interview with Diana Cates” (2010). Podcast for Commonweal with Paul Lauritzen http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=6569.
2010 “Love and Compassion Across Traditions.” Respondent to Geoffrey Claussen on the ethics of Rabbi Simchah Zissel Ziv. Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics.
2009 Aquinas on the Emotions. Invited seminar leader. Amherst College, Massachusetts.
2009 “Appetites and Emotions in Aquinas.” Invited address. Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich (der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich).
2009 “Aquinas on Love and Hatred.” Invited address. Yale University Divinity School.
2009 “The Nature of the Beast: Hatred in Cross-Traditional Religious and Philosophical Perspective.” Panel organizer and presenter, with Joel Gereboff (Arizona State University), Keith Green (East Tennessee State University), and Maria Heim (Amherst College). Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2008 “Strengths of Character: A Thomistic Perspective.” Respondent to James Gubbins on religious ethics and positive psychology. The Moral and Religious Psychology Interest Group. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2006 Invited participant. The New Symposium: The Commons. Convened in Paros, Greece. Sponsored by The University of Iowa International Writing Program.
2006 “Thomas Aquinas on Friendship: Cultivating Intimacy and Emotional Integrity.” Invited address. Ninth Annual Thomas Aquinas Symposium, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.
2005-2006 Invited participant. Humanities and Human Rights Education Project, sponsored by John Carroll and Florida State Universities.
2005 “The Religious Ethical Study of Emotion.” Keynote address. Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium in Religious Studies, Florida State University.
2005 “The Ethics of Aquinas.” Invited graduate seminar. Florida State University.
2004 “The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions.” Paper presentation. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2003 “Honoring the Religious Impulse within the Arena of Genetic Counseling.” Plenary address. Loma Linda University Center for Christian Bioethics conference, “Promise and Peril of the New Genetics.”
Cates 7 2001-2003 Funded participant. Bonfils Seminar Project on Theological Ethics and the Arts.
2002 Breakfast with an Author. Discussion of Cates and Lauritzen, Medicine and the Ethics of Care. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2001 “Natural Law, Virtue, and the Determination of Appetitive Rightness.” Invited presentation. Ethics and Sexuality Interest Group. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2001 “Educating for Life or Moralizing? Shaping Moral Character in the Classroom.” Invited presentation. Pedagogy Interest Group. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2000 Discussion Leader. Breakfast with an Author. Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas. By Cristina Traina. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1998 Breakfast with an Author. Discussion of Cates, Choosing to Feel. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1997 “Feeling the Same Pain as Another: The Possibility of Compassion.” Roberts Lecture. Grinnell College.
1995 “Anger and Oppression.” Paper presentation. Ethics Section of The American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Upper Midwest Regional Meeting.
1994 “The Structure of Emotion.” Invited paper presentation. Brock Philosophical Society Symposium on Eros, Philia, and Agape in the Writings of Martha Nussbaum. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
1989 Respondent to Arthur Waskow. Annual Consultation of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.
University of Iowa
2013 “Remaking the Body: Identity and Body Modification.” Guest on WorldCanvass, hosted by Joan Kjaer of International Programs. The University of Iowa.
2012 “Understanding the World through Genetics and New Technologies.” Guest on WorldCanvass, hosted by Joan Kjaer of International Programs, The University of Iowa.
2012 “Biopolitics and Bioethics.” Invited respondent and moderator. Visions of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema Conference, The University of Iowa.
2012 “Faith and Feminism.” Invited panelist. UI Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and Hillel.
2010 “Evil and the Ethics of Hatred.” Coffee Talk, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.
2009 Session Chair. Fifth Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts. “Reading the Book of Nature.”
2008 “Thomas Aquinas on Love and Other Appetitive Motions.” Religion Graduate Student Organization Faculty Lecture Series. Cates 8
2007 Panel presentation on diversity and affirmative action, representing the UI Center for Human Rights. Annual Faculty Governance Meeting of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC).
2005 Moderator. Geneva Lecture Series presentation and panel featuring bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino, MD.
2004 “Investigating Worries and Fears about Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” Invited panelist. “Creating Life? Examining the Legal, Ethical and Medical Issues of Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” 9th Annual Symposium of The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, University of Iowa College of Law.
2004 “Religious Moralities of Sexuality.” Invited presentation for 154:110, Introduction to Sexuality Studies.
2003 “Religion, Narrative, and Healing.” Invited presentation for 143:050, Illness and Healing Honors Seminar.
2002 “The Power of Perception.” Invited panelist. Kick-off event for the “Good, Better, Best, Iowa” fundraising campaign.
2001 “Embryo Research and the Status of the Early Embryo.” Invited paper. University of Iowa Bioethics Journal Club.
2001 Global Assembly: Advancing the Human Right to Health. Invited workshop leader. University of Iowa Global Health Conference.
2000 “Where are We Going? What are We Waiting For?” Invited panelist. Community discussion of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
2000 “The Human Genome Project and the Ethics of Nursing.” Invited paper presentation. 2000 Women’s Health Conference, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
2000 “Tartuffe and the Appeal of the Religious Con-Man: A Conversation between Miriam Gilbert, Department of English, and Diana Cates, School of Religion.” Thursday Theatre Talk, Riverside Theatre.
2000 “Religion and Human Rights.” Invited presentation for 152:120, Health and Human Rights.
2000 “Caring for Girls and Women who are Considering Abortion.” Invited paper presentation. University of Iowa Bioethics Forum.
1998 “The Moral Dimensions of Good Citizenship.” Invited panelist. University of Iowa Humanities Symposium, “Civic Education in Classical Athens and Humanities Education Today: Isocrates Between Sophists and Philosophers.”
1998 University of Iowa Presidential Seminar. Invited presentation.
1996 “Five on Feminism.” Invited panelist. Women's Resource and Action Center.
1995 “Jews and Christians in Dialogue: The Challenge in the ‘Love Your Neighbor’ Cates 9 Traditions.” Invited panelist.
1995 “The Ethics of Anger.” Invited paper presenation. The Ethics Seminar, co-sponsored by the College of Business Administration and the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry.
1995 “Aristotle and Feminist Ethics.” Invited presentation for 33:050, Making Choices: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
1995 Funded participant. R.I.S.K. Project, the Interdisciplinary Program in Literature, Science, and the Arts.
1995 “The Writings of Martha Nussbaum.” Invited paper. Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry.
1995 Respondent to Michael Harris. Honors Program presentation on the meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
1994 “Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love.” Invited paper. Eliatic Society Great Books Seminar.
1992 “Genetic Knowledge and Self-Understanding”. Invited panelist. University of Iowa Humanities Symposium, "Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics."
1992 “Sharing Selves: Friendship as Context for Moral Deliberation.” Women's Studies Brownbag.
1991 “Educating the Emotions.” University of Iowa School of Religion Adler Luncheon Address.
1990 Respondent to C. Stephen Evans: “Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion.” Geneva Lecture Series Colloquium, University of Iowa.
Other Settings
2012 “Religion/Spirituality and its Impacts on Physical Health.” Radio guest on “Talk of Iowa,” hosted by Charity Nebbe (Iowa Public Television podcast).
2011 “Forgiveness.” Television guest on “Ethical Perspectives on the News,” hosted by Mary Ducey (KCRG TV-9).
2011 “Restoring Well-Being in Persons who Suffer.” Invited presentation. Forum on Saving Lives, First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010 “Kierkegaard and the Love Command.” Invited presentation. St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa.
2010 “Why Species Matter Theologically.” Invited presentation. Symposium on The Sixth Extinction, Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City.
2009 “Love, Justice, and the Advance of Genetic Science and Technology.” Invited presentation. Forum on Human Health, First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cates 10 2009 “The UI Department of Religious Studies.” Invited presentation. Consultation of Religious Communities, Iowa City.
2006 “Spiritual Friendship: Aristotle for the 21st Century.” Invited presentation. Iowa City Earth Spirit.
2003 “Being Good and Choosing Well: Exploring the Process of Ethical Decision Making.” Invited presentation. Cedar River Theological Forum, Cedar Rapids.
2003 “Ethics in a Pluralistic World.” Invited presentation. Interdenominational Dimensions of Faith Forum, Iowa City, IA.
2002 “Sexual Ethics.” Invited presentation. Central Iowa Continuing Education Forum of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Ankeny, IA.
2002 Invited discussion facilitator. Impact of recent terrorist events on interfaith dialogue. Conference 7 pastors of the ELCA.
1999 “Doing Justice.” Invited presentation. Southeastern Iowa Synod of ELCA Spring Cluster Meeting.
1997 “Jewish and Christian Ethical Perspectives on Capital Punishment.” Invited presentation. Iowans Against the Death Penalty.
1993 “Woman as Suffering Servant.” Presenter and Retreat Facilitator. Southeastern Iowa Synod Women of the ELCA Annual Retreat.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at The University of Iowa
Undergraduate: Religion and Liberation, Sexual Ethics, Religious Ethics, History of Religious Ethics, Genes and the Human Condition, Senior Seminar, Independent Studies, Reading Courses, Honors Tutorials.
Graduate: 20th Century Christian Ethics, Teaching Religious Studies, Ethics of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, Ethics of Kierkegaard, Passions and Religious Affections, Proseminar in Theology, Ethics, and Culture, Feminist Ethics, Independent Studies, Readings in Religious Ethics (including Liberation Theology and Ethics, Social Ethics, The History of Ethics, Black and Womanist Ethics, Psychoanalysis and Ethics, Comparative Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Bioethics).
Courses Taught for The University of Iowa Senior College
The Ethics of Love (spring 2010).
Membership on M.A. Exam and PhD. Thesis Defense Committees in Religious Studies
Christopher Meyers (Ph.D., 2009); Daniel Boscaljon (Ph.D., 2009); Matthew Creswell (M.A. 2008); Emily Ley (M.A. 2008); Verna Ehret (Ph.D., 2007); Patrick McCauley (Ph.D., 2006); Rebecca Huskey (Ph.D., 2006); Forrest Clingerman (Ph.D., 2005); Katherine Donahue (M.A., 2004); Jessica Decou (M.A., 2004); Miki Walsh (M.A., 2004); Helen Burns (Ph.D., 2001); Peter Gerhard (Ph.D., 2000); Mark Davis (Ph.D., 1999); Glenn Whitehouse (Ph.D., 1998); Kathy Freilinger (M.A. with Thesis, 1998); Duane Olson Cates 11 (Ph.D., 1997); Peter Jauhiainen (Ph.D., 1997); Heather Ohrt (M.A. with Thesis, 1993); Kenneth Cuthbertson (Ph.D., 1992); Stanley Friesen (Ph.D., 1992); Kelton Cobb (Ph.D., 1992); Rick Severson (Ph.D, 1990).
Committee Membership on Behalf of Students in Other Fields
Rebecca Porter (Ph.D., Nursing, 2010); Patricia Brogan (Ph.D., English Literature, 2009); Shelley-Rae Pehler (Ph.D., Nursing, 2006); Rachel Bohlmann (Ph.D., History, 2001); Markha Valenta (Ph.D., American Studies, 1999); Michael Burk (Ph.D., American Studies, 1998); Kimberly Smoron (Honors Thesis, Philosophy, 1993); Robert Cline (Honors Thesis, English, 1992).
Teaching Innovations
New Senior Seminar developed on the topic of Ethics and World Religions (2010).
New Senior Seminar developed on the topic of Religion and Human Rights (2007).
New core course developed for the graduate program, Teaching Religious Studies (2003).
New version of Ethics and the New Genetics taught independently (2002).
Ethics and the New Genetics team-taught fall of 2001 with Jack Lilien (Chair, Biological Sciences). nTITLE Workshop participant (2001).
Doctoral Dissertations Directed
Abbylynn H. Helgevold (2013). Humility, Oppression, and Human Flourishing: A Critical Appropriation of Aquinas on Humility. Adjunct Instructor, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
Christine Theresa Darr (2013). The Social Practices of Consumption and the Formation of Desire. Adjunct Instructor, Loras College, Dubuque, IA.
Daniel A. Morris (2012). John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Democratic Virtue. Conrad J. Bergendoff Teaching Fellow at Augustana College, IL.
Nancy Menning (2010). Reading Nature Religiously: Lectio Divina, Environmental Ethics, and the Literary Nonfiction of Terry Tempest Williams.
Richard McCarty (2008). An Ethical Analysis of Thomas Aquinas and the Virtue of Temperance: Revisiting Sexual Virtue.
Jordan Copeland (2007). Rehearsals for Engagement: The Moral Practice of Friendship and the Cultivation of Social Concern.
Joan Henriksen Hellyer (2007). The Good Nurse: Recovering the Virtue of Obedience for the Work of Health Care Teams.
Mary Nona Pugh (2005). The Neglected Dimension of Love: Sacrificial Love and its Role in Christian Ethics.
Sandra Faye Gines (2002). Quiet Courage: Fortifying the Self to be Vulnerable from within an Aristotelian-Thomistic Conception of Virtue and a Good Human Life. Cates 12
Don L. Davis (2000). Black and Human: Rediscovering King as a Resource for Black Theology and Ethics.
Robert L. Grant (1999). What Earth has Given, and Human Hands Have Made: Applying Thomas’ Theory of the Good to Environmental Ethics.
Shelly Hall (1997). Faith, Compassion and Religious Understanding in Julian of Norwich's Showings.
Christopher Johnson (1996). Envisioning Forgiveness: Frameworks of Justice and Forgiveness in the Moral Life.
Master Theses Directed
Susan Woolever (2013). The Process of Self-Becoming in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Carl Rogers.
Angela Annette Chipman (2011). Discussing the Underlying Concerns in the Abortion Debate: Searching for an Effective Model of Discourse.
John Haman (2011). The Sanctification of Friendship: Reconciling Preferential and Non-Preferential Love in Søren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love.
Mitchell Coleman (2007). Contributions of Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Temperance to the Contemporary Effort to Understand and Treat Addiction.
Sara Dohrman (2007). Living a Poetic Life: Womanist Ethics and Spirituals in the Autobiographies of Maya Angelou.
Masters Degrees Directed (Without Thesis)
Debra Savage (2004); Beth Shields (2001).
Undergraduate Honors Theses Directed
Hanna Henscheid (2011). The Holocaust and Zionism: Implications for Israel.
Abi Struck-Marcell (2008). Justifying Gene Therapy: A Case Study of the French X-SCID Trial.
Jennifer Seydlitz (2007). The Ethical Treatment of Dental Patients: Upholding Benevolence through Agape-Love.
Sara Dohrman (2003). What Came First, the Catholic or the Egg? Diverse Catholic Voices on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
Nathan Kron (2001). The Integrating Theocentric Perspective: A Framework for Christian Environmental Ethics.
Tanya Besler (1999). Liberating Partnership Found in Submission to God.
M. J. Gravel (1995). Soren Kierkegaard's Ethic of Freedom and Human Dignity.
Lori Rath (1993). The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas. Cates 13
SERVICE
National
2010-2016 Trustee of Religious Ethics, Inc., and Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Religious Ethics.
2011 Nominating Committee. Journal of Religious Ethics.
2011 Book Proposal Reviewer. Roman and Littlefield Press.
2010 Series Reviewer (Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology). Fordham University Press.
2010 Manuscript Reviewer. The Thomist.
2010 Recording Secretary. The Society of Christian Ethics.
2003-2010 Member. Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious Ethics.
2009-2010 Member. Executive Committee. The Society of Christian Ethics.
2009 Member. Program Committee for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2006-2010 Member. Board of Directors. The Society of Christian Ethics.
2006-2010 Member. Finance Committee. The Society of Christian Ethics.
2009 Member. IRB Policy Committee. The Society of Christian Ethics.
2009 Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Philosophical Research.
2008 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Final Selection Committee.
2008 Recording Secretary. Annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2007 Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
2006 Referee. The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2006 Manuscript Reviewer. Georgetown University Press.
2003-2006 Ethics Representative. Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders Advisory Committee, Iowa Department of Public Health.
2005 Session Moderator. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2004-2005 Member. Executive Director’s Office Task Force, appointed by the President of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2003 Manuscript Reviewer. American Philosophical Quarterly.
Cates 14 2003 Manuscript Reviewer. Blackwell Press.
2002-2003 Referee. Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2002 Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Religious Ethics.
2002 Convener. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
2001-2002 Member. Nominating Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1998-2001 Member. Editorial Board, Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1998-2000 Referee. Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1996-1999 Editor. Ethics Booknotes, Religious Studies Review.
1996-1997 Member. Nominating Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1996 Convener. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics.
1994 Referee. Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics.
University
2002-2013 Member. University of Iowa Center for Human Rights Executive Board.
2013 Presenter/discussion leader. “Sexual Ethics.” University of Iowa Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allied Union.
2012 Respondent. Visions of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema Conference. Biopolitics and Bioethics panel. University of Iowa.
2012 Session chair. Eighth Annual Conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts at Iowa: “Futures and Illusions: Hope and the Longing for Utopia.”
2011 Member. Arts and Humanities Initiative Review Committee.
2010 Interim Associate Director for University Affairs. University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
2005-2010 Member. Arts and Humanities Initiative Advisory Board.
2007-2009 Member. Admissions Committee. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
2006 Radio Show Guest. KSUI’s Know the Score LIVE! On the theme of “Pilgrimage.”
2006 Member. Selection Committee for the Kenneth J. Cmiel Human Rights Internship Program. University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
2006 Co-Facilitator (with Gina Crosheck). Fall retreat for the Executive Board of the UI Center for Human Rights.
2003-2004 Member. Year of the Arts and Humanities Steering Committee. Cates 15
2002 Moderator. “The Soul of the University: A Conversation with Thomas Moore and David Skorton.”
2000-2002 Member. Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Advisory Committee.
2001-2002 Member. Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Arts & Humanities.
2001 Reviewer and Review Committee Convener. College of Liberal Arts review of the UI Psychology Department.
2000, 1998 Member. Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Arts & Humanities.
1996 Session Chair. “Women, Religion and Politics.” University of Iowa Humanities Symposium, “Uses of Suffrage: Women, Politics and Social Change Since 1920.”
1995 Ethics Consultant. University of Iowa research group directed by Dr. Remi Cadoret, “Genes, Families, and Reducing Substance Abuse Risk.”
1993-1995 Member. Advisory Board of the University of Iowa Women's Resource and Action Center.
1995 Member. Commencement Speaker Selection Committee.
Administrative Professional Development Conferences and Seminars
2012 Wabash Center Graduate Program Directors and Deans Conference. Wabash College, Indianapolis.
2012 CIC DEO Program. Chicago, Illinois.
Departmental
2012-present Chair. Department of Religious Studies.
2010-2012 Member. Search Committee for Figge Chair in Catholic Studies.
2010-present Honors Program Coordinator.
2009-2010 Programming Coordinator.
2008-2009 Departmental Chair (interim).
2009 Chair. Website Committee.
2008 Member. Search Committee for position in Japanese Religions and Society
2008 Chair. Search Committee for position in Biblical Studies.
2006-2007 Chair. Search Committee for position in Biblical Studies.
2000-2007 Convener. Modern Religious Thought graduate studies area.
Cates 16 2004 Member. Search committee for position in Religion, Politics, and Social Justice.
2004, fall Director of Graduate Studies.
2003-2004 Chair. Search Committee for position in Islam.
1996-2003 Chair. Programs Committee.
2002-2003 Member. Search committee for position in Chinese Religions.
1999, 2002 Editor. James C. Spalding Lecture.
2000-2001 Member. Search Committee for Krumm Family Chair position.
1999-2000 Member. Planning Committee.
1998-1999 Member. Search Committee for Modern Religious Thought position.
1997-1998 Member. Search Committee for one year Catholic Studies position.
1997 Member. Search Committee for Program Assistant.
1992-1993 Member. Search Committee for Theology position.
1991-1992 Member. Search Committee for Reformation position.
1990-1992 Member. Undergraduate Committee.
Local
2003 Moderator. Call to Common Mission Forum (featuring Dr. George Forell and Bishop Philip Hougen), Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.