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Book Panel: Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education (2021)

Book Panel: Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education (2021)

Panel Description

This panel will be a roundtable review of the newly published book by Villanova University Christian Ethics Associate Professor Gerald Beyer. The panelists, drawing from their respective experiences as administrators, educators, and students, will discuss how Catholic social teaching has the potential to combat the deleterious effects of the corporatization of U.S. higher education.

Panelists Bios

Gerald J. Beyer is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University and author of Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education. His other publications include a prior book Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution and numerous articles in outlets such as Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Heythrop Journal, Journal of Religious Ethics, Notre Dame Journal of Ethics and Public Policy, Ethos, Political Theology, America, Commonweal, and National Catholic Reporter.

Patricia McGuire has been president of Trinity since 1989.  Previously, she was the assistant dean for development and external affairs at Georgetown University Law Center where she was also an adjunct professor of law.  She began her career after law school as the project director for the Street Law clinical program at Georgetown.  President McGuire serves on a number of boards including the Consortium of Universities, Cafritz Foundation, College Catholic Charities DC, Faith in the Future Foundation and the Ameritas Holding Company.  Her prior board service includes United Educators, the American Council on Education, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the Meyer Foundation, the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, and numerous other organizations.  In 2019 she received the Visionary Award from the Washington Area Women’s Foundation.  In 2018 she received the Association of Catholic Colleges Distinguished Service Award.  In 2016, the TIAA Institute honored President McGuire with the Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence.  In 2015 President McGuire received the Carnegie Award for Academic Leadership from the Carnegie Corporation.  In 2012 she received the Henry Paley Award from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. In 2010 she received the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom from the American Association of University Professors. She holds honorary degrees from several universities including Georgetown, Howard, Chatham, Emmanuel, Saint Michael’s, Liverpool Hope and others.  In 2007 she was named “Leader of the Years” by the Greater Washington Board of Trade.  She earned her law degree at Georgetown and her baccalaureate degree cum laude at Trinity.

Mary-Antoinette Smith, Professor, Seattle University. Her areas of specialization are 18th and 19th Century British Literature, and she also teaches courses in African-American Literature, Intercultural/Intersectional Literature, and Engaged Gazing for Social Justice (Locally, Nationally, Globally). Dr Smith’s pedagogy and scholarship promote praxis-centered race, class, gender/sexuality theory, and among her publications are a book titled Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species; and articles titled “It Takes a Village to Rear a Word Weaver: Memoir of a Black Catholic Girlhood in Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism” and “Brontë’s Inferno: An Intertextual Structural Analysis of Edward Rochester’s Redemptive Fire Baptism in Jane Eyre.” Her current scholarly book project is titled Her Fierce Faith: Introducing Ellen Tarry (African-American Catholic Convert and: Trailblazer of Pre-Civil Rights Interracial Justice in the Tradition of Catholic Social Action). Dr Smith also serves as Executive Director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. She took the helm of NAWCHE in 2009 with humble and deep admiration for its founder, Sharlene Hesse-Biber, who launched the organization at Boston College in 1992. Seattle University has sponsored two NAWCHE “Making Connections” Conferences on the themes Sustaining the Earth, the Self, and Women in Catholic Higher Education (2011) and The Welcome Table—Interfaith Women in Dialogue in Catholic Higher Education (2014), with plans for a forthcoming conference on the theme Discerning Women in Catholic Higher Education (2023).

Lily Ryan coordinates communications and programming at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and with the Bargaining for the Common Good network. Her interest in labor began as a student activist with the Georgetown Solidarity Committee where she organized locally with campus workers and campus unions and on international campaigns with the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) network. Lily is a proud New Orleanian and Former Jesuit Volunteer.

Donna T. Haverty-Stacke is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches courses in U.S. cultural, urban, labor, and legal history. Haverty-Stacke is the author of The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist (NYU Press, 2020), Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (NYU Press, 2015), America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867 – 1960 (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor with Daniel J.  Walkowitz of Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 – 2009 (Continuum, 2010). She received her PhD in History from Cornell University in 2003.