CURRICULUM VITAE Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J. Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and the Graduate Theological Union 1735 Le Roy Ave. Berkeley, California 94709-1193 Tel: (work) 510-549-5026 Fax: 510-841-8536 E-mail - [email protected] Education: Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy Department of Missiology S.T.D. - 1995 S.T.L. - 1992 Dissertation: "U.S. Hispanic Theology (1968-1993): Context and Praxis" Director: Arij Roest Crollius, S.J. Defended in December 1994. Summa Cum Laude The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley M.Div. - 1991 The University of Texas at Austin Department of Latin American Studies M.A. - 1986 Loyola University of the South, New Orleans Department of Sociology B.A. - 1980 Professional Status: Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry [Tenure granted in Spring 2003, Full Professor in 2012, Vatican Nihil Obstat granted in September, 2016]. Program Director of S.T.D. (ecclesiastical doctoral program) from Spring, 2008 to Spring, 2013. Currently has resumed post. Honors and Grants: Alpha Sigma Nu (1980); magna cum laude in Sociology; Louis J. Twomey, S.J. Award, Loyola University of the South; Phi Kappa Phi (1985) Honor Society at The University of Texas at Austin; Post-doctoral Research Grant awarded by the Hispanic Theological 1 | Page Initiative (1997). Louisville Institute Research Grant for writing Celebrating Sacraments in an Hispanic Context (1998-2000). Association for Theological Schools (ATS) Sabbatical Research Fellowship (2003-2004). Teaching Diversity in Theological Settings Seminar Grant awarded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2005-2006). US Jesuit Conference Grant for Social Pastoral Research Grant (2011-2012). Invited to be part of the leadership team for the Workshop for Pre- Tenure Latino/a Religion Faculty in Seminaries, Colleges, and Universities (2012-2013). Recipient of the 2011 Academy of Catholic U.S. Hispanic Theologians (ACHTUS) Virgilio Elizondo Award as well as the 2012 Servant Leadership Award given by the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey. Awarded a Bannan Institute Research Grant by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara University for project entitled "Contextual Theology Research" (2015-2016). On leadership team for the Wabash Center 2018-19 Early Career Theological Faculty. Invited to be part of the Wabash Center 2019 to 2020 Race Critical Consciousness Colloquy, which resulted in receiving a Grant, “Entertaining Angels: Faith Stories of Migrants and Refugees” ($5000). Together with four other scholars in that colloquy, was consequently awarded an $85,000 grant from Wabash for “Expanding the Latinx Vision of Borderlands at ATS Member Schools” for 2020-2023. In 2020, was elected to deliver the Graduate Theological Union’s Distinguished Professor Lecture in November. Languages (Reading, Speaking, and Writing Knowledge): English, Spanish, Italian Professional Experience: 1997 Came to the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley with a Post-doctoral Research Grant awarded by the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI), eventually becoming part of the fulltime faculty. 1999 Visiting Professor for the Hispanic Summer Program (GTU, Berkeley); Lecturer at the Summer Institute of the Multicultural Center (Franciscan School of Theology) 1999 (Summer) Visiting Professor, Permanent Deacon’s Spanish Training Program, Diocese of Sacramento [still teaching as of 2011] 1998 Visiting Professor at the Oblate School of Theology (January) 1997 Hispanic Theological Initiative Visiting Scholar at the Jesuit School of theology at Berkeley (Fall) 1995 to Fall, 1997 - Parochial Vicar, Sacred Heart Church, El Paso, Texas; part-time instructor at Instituto Tepeyac, diocesan lay formation program; campus ministry chaplain; visiting instructor at the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas 2 1996 (Spring) - Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies Program, University of Texas at El Paso 1996 (Summer) - Visiting Professor, Loyola Institute of Ministry, New Orleans 1993 adjunct faculty for Certificate Program in Pastoral Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles 1985-1987 - Theology Instructor at Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida Professional Affiliations: The Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the United States (ACHTUS), board member, vice-president 2000-2001, president 2001-2002 The Academy of American Religion (AAR) Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH) Jesuit Hispanic Ministry Conference(JHMC) (secretary 1995-1999) International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM) Publications: Books: La Cosecha: Harvesting Contemporary U.S. Hispanic Theology (1972-1998) (Collegeville: Michael Glazier, 2000). In Spanish translation: La Cosecha: Teología Contemporánea en Estados Unidos (1972-1998). Published by México: Buena Prensa, 2009. The Universidad Alberto Hurtado Press in Chile recently put out an updated Spanish version entitled La Cosecha: Teología hispana contemporánea en Estados Unidos (1972-2019). U.S. Catholic Hispanic Trends and Works (University of Scranton Press, 2002) with Kenneth Davis and Veronica Mendez. La Vida Sacra: A Contemporary Hispanic Sacramental Theology (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) co-authored with James Empereur, S.J. Mexican American Catholics (Paulist Press, 2007). Winner of Second Place, Pastoral Ministry Category, Catholic Press Association, 2008. Culture-Sensitive Ministry: Helpful Strategies for Pastoral Ministers (Paulist Press, 2010) with Kenneth McGuire and Anne Hansen. 3 Doing Theology as If People Mattered: Encounters in Contextual Theology (Herder and Herder, 2019) with Deborah Ross and Stephen Bevans, editors. Articles: Principal Scholarly Publications: "'Reading the Bible in Spanish': U.S. Catholic Hispanic Theologians' Contributions to Systematic Theology." Apuntes 14, no. 3 (Fall 1994):86-90. "U.S. Hispanic Catholics: Trends and Works, 1994" in collaboration with Kenneth Davis, OFM, Conv. Review for Religious 54, no. 2 (March-April 1995): 283-300. ['95 review of the same appeared in March-April 1996: 185-203; ‘96 review appeared in March-April 1997: 187-206; with Verónica Méndez, RCD; in March- April 1998: 186-201; 1999: 195-210; 2000: 193-208]. Annual article until 2000. Articles published as the major part of a book (see above). "Reflexiones Sobre la Realidad de los Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: Sombras y Luces," in Reflexiones Catequéticas: Encuentro de San Antonio, Texas, Julio de 1995. Editor, Roberto Viola, S.J. (Bogotá: Ediciones Paulinas, 1996):175-179. "Seven Tips on the Pastoral Care of Catholics of Mexican Descent in the United States," in Chicago Studies, Dec. '97, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 255-268. [Republished in Building Bridges: The Pastoral Care of U.S. Hispanics (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2000), edited by Kenneth G. Davis and Yolanda Tarango, pp. 81- 93]. “Educating for Inculturation: Reasons Why the Arts Cannot Be Ignored,” in The Future of the Arts in Worship and Religious Education, edited by Doug Adams and Michael E. Moynahan (San Jose: Resource Publications, Inc., 2002): 139- 144.. “The Contributions of the Jesuit Order in the New Mexico-Colorado-West Texas Mountain Mission, 1867-1919,” in Seeds of Struggle/Harvest of Faith (Albuquerque: LPD Press, 1998). Editors: Thomas J. Steele, S.J., Paul Rhetts, and Barbe Awalt, pp. 135-148. "'Reading the Bible in Spanish': U.S. Catholic Hispanic Theologians' Contributions to Systematic Theology." The Ecumenist 36, no. 1 (Jan-Feb. 1999), pp. 10-12; revision of earlier article by the same name in Apuntes 14, no. 3 (Fall 1994):86-90. “Teaching US Hispanic Popular Religiosity: Valuable Lessons for the Spirituality of our Times.” The Way Supplement 2001/100 (Spring 2001): 42-52. 4 “Latinos and Ecumenism: Compelling Servants in a New Era.” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 9, No. 2 (November 2001): 5-16. “La Creación: Fruto de una prodigiosa y fuente de vida para el ministerio” in Camino a Emaús: Compartiendo el ministerio de Jesús, edited by Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Timoteo Matovina, and Nina M. Torres-Vidal (Fortress Press, 2002): 83-87. “Three Visual Images of Jesus the Christ from the Latino Community: God the Vulnerable; God the Broken; God the Loving” in Jesus in the Hispanic Community: Images of Christ from Theology to Popular Religion , edited by Harold Recinos and Hugo Magallanes (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), 171-189. “The Missiology of Eusebio Francisco Kino and the Tools He Inherited” Southwestern Mission Research Center Revista (University of Arizona at Tucson) 44, number 164-165 (Fall-Winter 2010): 26-31. “‘Their Eyes Were Open’”: The Bible and Prayer, A Guided Meditation.” [in English and Spanish] in The Word of God and Latino Catholics: The Teachings of the Road to Emmaus and La Palabra de Dios y los católicos latinos: las lecciones del camino a Emaús (American Bible Society, 2012), edited by Jean-Pierre Ruiz and Mario J. Paredes. English version: 193-201; Spanish: 201-210. “Jesuits in the US Southwest during the 19th and 20th Centuries: Agents and Chroniclers of Cross-Cultural Ministry and History” in Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Others, edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). “A Litany for Alex: Remembering his Contributions to Pastoral Theology” Diálogo: A Bilingual Journal Published by the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University 16, number 2 (Fall 2013): 28-32. “Called to the Frontier: Contemporary