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Professor of the Year Award
Dr. June O'Connor
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Dr.
Fischer Awards Dr.
June O'Connor
This award recognizes outstanding faculty who participate in
the University Honors Program. Students
may nominate their favorite Honors professor to be the UHP Professor of
the Year. Official nomination
forms are available in the Honors office. |
Professor of Religious
Studies
Fields of interest:
comparative religious ethics, women and religion, liberation ethics, and
contemporary Christian theology and ethics.
Education:
Dr. O'Connor completed a B.A. in English from Mundelein College, Chicago, an
M.A. in Theology at Marquette University, and a Ph.D. in Religion at Temple
University. O'Connor's research in comparative religious ethics focuses on
selected issues such as violence and nonviolence, abortion, feminist
perspectives, third world theologies and testimonial writings, and methods of
ethical inquiry and analysis.
Publications:
The Quest for Political and Spiritual Liberation: A Study in the
Thought of Sri Aurobindo Ghose and The Moral Vision of Dorothy
Day: A Feminist Perspective. Her articles have appeared in Journal
of Religious Ethics, Religious Studies Review, Religion (An International
Journal), Horizons, Journal of the College Theology Society, Journal of
Ecumenical Studies, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Hastings Center Report, and
Religion and Education, among others.
Awards:
O'Connor has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Faculty Public
Service Award at the University of California, Riverside; she has also served as
a research fellow at the University of California Riverside Center for Ideas and
Society and was the principal organizer of the UCR scholarly conference on
"Religion and Ethnic Conflict," April 28-30, 1995.
 Dr.
O'Connor accepts the award and thanks the Honors students.
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