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3034 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

O'Connor, June E

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Religious Studies


Biography

June 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.

Member, Editorial Board, RELIGION (Academic Press), 1989-2004
Member, Editorial Board, SCE ANNUAL, 1996-1999
Editor of Review Essays in Religious Ethics, Religious Studies Review: A Quarterly Review of Publications in the Field of Religion and Related Disciplines (Council of Societies for the Study of Religion), 1991-1995
Associate Editor, Journal of Religious Ethics, 1978-1982, and Member of the Editorial Board, 1982-1985

MEMBERSHIPS IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

American Academy of Religion (AAR)Member, Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion, 1999-2000
Member, Steering Committee, Religion and Human Rights Consultation, 1996-2003
Member, National Committee on Education and the Study of Religion, 1985, 1986
Member, Task Force on Depth and Breadth in the Undergraduate Major [cosponsored with American Association of Colleges], 1989, 1990
President, Western Region, 1984-85
Vice President and Program Chair, Western Region, 1983-84

Society of Christian Ethics (SCE) [scholarly society addressing Christian and Comparative Ethics]
President, 2003-2004
Vice President, 2002-2003
Chair, Committee for the 21st Century, 1999-2001
Member, Editorial Board, SCE ANNUAL, 1996-1999
Member, Board of Directors, 1979-1983, 1990-1994

Former Institution

None

Degrees

Ph.D. Religious Ethics 1973

Temple University

M.A. Religion 1972

Temple University

M.A. Theology 1966

Marquette University

B.A. English Literature 1964

Mundelein College

Awards

Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Riverside, 1979
Faculty Public Service Award Recipient, Citizens University Committee, UC Riverside, 1993
Professor of the Year Award, University Honors Program, UC Riverside, 2000-2001
Faculty Distinguished Service Award, UC Riverside, 2006


Research Area

Comparative Religious Ethics; Contemporary Western Religious Thought; Religion and Human Rights, Violence and Nonviolence as Means of Social Change

Publications

Selected Publications


The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day: A Feminist Perspective (Crossroad, 1991).


The Quest for Political and Spiritual Liberation: A Study in the Thought of Sri Aurobindo Ghose (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977).


“On Doing Religious Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics 7.1, Spring 1979. Reprinted (with a new prefatory note) in Barbara Andolsen, Christine Gudorf, and Mary Pellauer, eds., Women’s Consciousness, Women’s Conscience: A Reader in Feminist Ethics. New York: Seabury, 1985.

“Dorothy Day and Gender Identity: The Rhetoric and the Reality,” Horizons: Journal of the College Theology Society 15.1, Spring 1988. Reprinted in JoAnnWolski Conn, ed., Horizons on Catholic Feminist Theology. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1992.

“Rereading, Reconceiving, and Reconstructing Traditions: Feminist Research in Religion,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17.1-2, 1989. Published simultaneously in Emily K. Abel and Marjorie L. Pearson, eds., Across Cultures: The Spectrum of Women’s Lives. Vol. IV, Studies in Gender and Culture. London: Gordon and Breach, 1989.

“Dorothy Day’s Christian Conversion,” Journal of Religious Ethics 18.1, Spring 1990.

“Dorothy Day as Autobiographer,” RELIGION 20, July 1990.

“The Summer of Our Discontent,” in “The Fate of Roe v. Wade,” Hastings Center Report 22.5, 1992.

“The Epistemological Significance of Feminist Research in Religion.” In Ursula King, ed., Perspectives on Religion and Gender. London: Athlone Press, 1995.

“Comforting the Sorrowful: From Charity to Solidarity.” In Francis Eigo, ed., Rethinking the Works of Mercy. Villanova, PA: Villanova University Press, 1993.

“All-Inclusive Ritual for Public Events,” The Press-Enterprise, April 1993.

“Does a Global Village Warrant a Global Ethic? [An Analysis of A Global Ethic, the Declaration of the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions],” RELIGION 24,1994. Reprinted in Steven Scholl, ed., Common Era: Best New Writing on Religion. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1995.

“Ritual Recognition of Abortion: Japanese Buddhist Practices and U.S. Jewish and Christian Proposals.” In Lisa Sowle Cahill and Margaret Farley, eds., Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

“Ritual Recognition of Diversity: A Proposal,” Religion and Education 22, Fall 1995.

“Guiding Questions and Changing Directions: How My Mind Has and Has Not Changed,” Journal of Religious Ethics 25.2, Fall 1997.

Expanding Critical Intelligence: The Scholar of Religions as Public Intellectual,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66.4, Winter 1998.

“Making a Case for the Common Good in a Global Economy: The United Nations Human Development Reports (1990-2001),” Journal of Religious Ethics 30/1 (Spring 2002), 157-173.

“Fostering Forgiveness in the Public Square: How Realistic a Goal?”, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 22 (Fall 2002): 165-182.

“Ethics in Popular Culture,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 24.2 (Fall/Winter 2004): 3-23.