Research and Scholarship

Fr. Richard V. Paluse Mission-Related Research Grantees

2011-2012
  • Mark L. Haas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy
    “Catholic Strategies of International Conflict Resolution: Will the Rise of ‘Islamo-Liberals’ Reduce Western-Islamic Hostilities?”
  • Anne Marie Hansen, EdD, OTR/L, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy
    “Listen to Our Voices: Challenges & Barriers to Participation and Engagement in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities in Zambia”
  • William M. Wright, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
    “Echoes of Apocalyptic in Benedict XVI’s Social Doctrine”

We thank the members of the Committee for their distinguished work and we congratulate our three grantees. We look forward to their presentations in the Paluse Lecture Series and to the future publication of their work.  

From an endowment funded by a gift from the late Fr. Richard V. Paluse, the Paluse Research Grant is given in support of the mission of the Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought in fostering research in social justice issues through the critical lens of various academic disciplines, and interfaced/integrated with a study of Catholic Social Thought as a religio-ethical resource.  Up to four grants of five thousand dollars each will be given annually.

While it claims a vision of the world informed by its specific ethos, Catholic Social Thought evokes a moral resonance in all earnest inquirers of the truth and seekers of justice.  The principles of Catholic Social Thought premised on natural law are addressed to all men and women of good will.

Past Award Winners:
2010-2011
  • Daniel Lieberfeld, Ph.D., Center for Social and Public Policy
    “Reconciliation Oriented Leadership:  The Case of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet”
  • Jaime Phillip Munoz, Ph.D., Department of Occupational Therapy 
    “What Helps Me Engage and What Gets in the Way:  Using Photovoice to Understand and Address Barriers to Social Participation”
  • Jotham Parsons, Ph.D., Department of History
    “Poverty, Class, and Spirituality in the Century of Saints”
2009-2010
  • William E. Adams, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
    “The Coalesence of Christian Contemplative Prayer and Ecological Justice Work”
  • Rev. Jocelyn Gregoire, C.S.Sp., Ed.D., School of Education
    “Examination of the Impact of the Roman Catholic Church on the Individual and Collective Racial-Cultural Identity Development of Mauritian Code”
  • Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Ph.D., Department of Communications and Rhetorical Studies
    “Cosmopolitical Alternatives in Catholic Social Thought”
  • Daniel P. Scheid, Ph.D., Department of Theology
    “Care of Creation as our Cosmic Common Good“
2008-2009 Inaugural Year
  •  Dr. Jim Bailey, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
    “Asset Building for the Poor, Capabilities, and Catholic Social Thought”
  •  Dr. Norman Conti, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
    “This Kind of Learning Changes Lives”: Conversion Narratives in Teacher-Activist Recruitment”
  • Dr. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology    “Love, Justice, and Solidarity: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Principle of Subsidiarity”
  • Dr. Linda Kinnahan, Professor, Department of English
    “The Poetry of Mina Loy and Radical Representations of Poverty”