Curriculum Vitae

Barbara E. Wall, Ph.D.

Special Assistant to the President for Mission
Associate Professor of Philosophy: Marxism, Political Theory, Catholic Social Teaching, Feminism
Villanova University
Vasey Hall, Room 202
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
Phone: (610) 519-5431
Email : barbara.wall@villanova.edu

EARNED DEGREES

B.A.     Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, New York
M.A.    Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Thesis:    Love and Death in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel
Ph.D.   Political Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
             Dissertation:    Marx's Scientific Method in the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, 1979

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2000 -    Special Assistant to the President for Mission, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
             Founder and Co-Editor of the Journal for Catholic Social Thought
             Co-Editor of the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies,
             Member and Chair of Academic and Professional Affairs Committee,
                    Board of Trustees, King’s College, Wilkes Barre, PA.

1996 - 2000   Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
                   Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Women's
                   Studies Program, Director of the Ethics Program, Co-Editor of the
                   Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Member, Board of
                   Directors King's College, Wilkes Barre, PA (1996-2002), Board
                   Member of Lilly Fellows Program in the Arts and Humanities
                   (1996-2002).

1991 - 1996   Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for
                   Peace and Justice Education, Director of Women's Studies
                   Program.

1990 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for Peace
and Justice Education, Director of Women's Studies Program.

1989 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Founder and Director of Women's
Studies Program.

1984-1988     Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Associate Director of the Center
                   for Peace and Justice Program, Founding Co-Editor, Journal for
                   Peace and Justice Studies (1988), Villanova University.

1981-1984 Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Philosophy.

1982 Co-founder of Hospice of Lenawee County, Vice President of the
Board, President of the Board (1983-1984).

1980-1981 Vice President for Student Life, Dean of Students, Associate
Professor, and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy.

1979-1980 Associate Dean of Students, Associate Professor and Chairperson of
the Department of Philosophy.

1976-1979 Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Philosophy Department,
Siena Heights College, Adrian, MI.

1970-1976 Instructor of Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

GRANTS

1999 Committee member for USIA grant for a joint venture between
Villanova University and Lebanese American University.

1998 Connelly Foundation Grant for Conference on “Hildegard of
Bingen.”

1997 Lilly Fellows Summer Project Grant for four week seminar on
"The Mission of the Religiously-Affiliated University/College and
the Public Theology of Its Students.”

1992-1996 Grant Evaluator for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

1992 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant for Conference on "Voices
of the Americas."

1991 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant for Conference on "Women
and Work."

1987 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant for Fall Lecture Series on
"The American Constitution."

1987 Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant for Spring Lecture Series on
"Health Care Ethics."

1985 Sage Foundation Grant for Conference on "The Pastoral on the
Economy and Catholic Social Teaching."

1983-1984 Michigan Humanities Council Grant for year long activities honoring
the "International Holocaust Year."

1983 Member of Fact Finding Team for WZO in Israel, October 4-16.

1979 Carnegie-Mellon Grant, College Management Program.

1973 Recipient of a National Foundation in the Humanities Grant:
"Marx's Political Philosophy" Seminars at Delaware County
Community College, Concordville, Pennsylvania.

HONORS

1991 Lindback Award for Outstanding Teaching.

1985 Phi Sigma Tau Award from Siena Heights College.

1985 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: Women
in Antiquity, with Professor Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College.

1968-1970 Research Assistantship, Marquette University, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.

PUBLICATIONS

Experiencing God: A Postmodern Response, edited with Kevin Hart (forthcoming 2004), Fordham University Press, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series.

Co-editor, Journal of Catholic Social Thought, (forthcoming Winter, 2004)

Co-editor, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vols. 1 – 13.

"Mission and Ministry of American Catholic Colleges and Universities for the Next Century: Vocation and Dialogic Models for Social Justice," Women in Catholic Higher Edcuation, Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Denise Leckenby, New York: Lexington Books, 2003.

"Navajo Conceptions of Justice in the Peacemaker Court," Journal of Social Philosophy,
Vol. 32 No. 4, Winter 2001.

“Mission and Ministry of American Catholic Colleges and Universities for the Next Century,” Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2.

"Rerum Novarum and Its Critics on Social and Sexual Hierarchies," Four Revolutions: Catholic Social Teaching's Unfinished Agenda. University Press of America and St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, 1992.

"The Concept of Death in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel," Philosophical Aspects of Thanatology, Vol. 2, pp. 250-75.

"The Element of Protest in Bereavement, "Preventive Mental Health Services and Major Bereavements, New York: Charles Press, 1989.

"Marx's Analysis of the Relationship between Private Property and the State in His Early Writings," Philosophy Today, Winter 1987.

Love and Death in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1977

"Personalist Community," The Catholic Worker, Vol. XLI, No. 5.

BOOK REVIEWS

Essay of The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis and Our Lady of Guadalupe Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women by Jeanette Rodriquez for The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Christianity Today in the U.S.S.R. for the Radical Philosophy Association Book Review, 1991.

"The Religious as Prophet," Book review, Cross Currents, Spring 1987.

PRESENTATIONS

1. Cultural Film Series Speaker on “The Widow of St. Pierre,” Villanova University, Spring 2002.

2. Cultural Film Series Speaker on “Smoke Signals,” Villanova University, 2000.

3. “Crafting a Prophetic Voice and Spirituality for Citizenship within University Curriculum,” Lebanese American University, Beirut, November 1999.

4. “American Indian Spirituality,” Bryn Mawr College, November 1999.

5. “Navajo Conceptions of Justice,” Haverford College, April 1999.

6. “Peace and Justice Education for the Future,” American Catholic Colleges and Universities Association Conference, Iona College, 1998.

7. Cultural Film Series Speaker on “Dead Man Walking,” Villanova University, 1998

8. Cultural Film Series Speaker on “Entertaining Angels,” Villanova University, 1998.

9. “Navajo Conceptions of Justice,” Navajo Studies Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 1997.

10. Provided a two-week series of workshops for faculty at Lebanese American University on Peace and Justice Curriculum Development and the establishment of a Center for Peace and Justice Education, 1997.

11. Panelist on “Religion and Culture” for the Gratz College Centennial, April 1996.

12. “Catholic Social Teaching and the Evolution of Conceptions of Justice,” Bryn Mawr College, April 1996.

13. “Navajo Conceptions of Gender,” American Philosophical Conference, New York City, 1996.

14. Workshops on Sexual Harassment for Villanova School of Law (2) and Villanova University maintenance crews, 1996.

15. “Creating A Center for Peace and Justice Education,” Third Annual National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, West Hartford, CT, November 1995.

16. “Navajo Conceptions of Justice,” CPJE lecture, Villanova University, March 1995.

17. “Navajo Peacemaker Court,” Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference, 1995.

18. “Women’s Studies at Catholic Universities,” Providence College 75^th Anniversary Speaker, November 1992.

19. “Feminist Models of Leadership,” Future of the American Church Conference, Washington, DC, September 1992.

20. “Rerum Novarum and Its Critics on Social and Sexual Hierarchies,” Cambridge University, England, July 1991.

21. “A Reconstructed Image of God: The Feminist Critique of God,” Seventh International Conference on God: The Contemporary Discussion, Assisi, Italy, May 1990.

22. “Feminist Philosophical Foundations for Peace,” American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1990.

23. “Conceptions of Human Nature in Catholic Social Thought and Feminism,” ACPA, Toronto, Canada, March 1990.

24. “Meaning of Being Human from the Marxist and Christian Perspectives,” part of a Christian Marxist Dialog with four East Germans, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, October 1989.

25. “Economic Justice: Marx’s Critique and Catholic Social Teaching,” Daniel Sullivan Memorial Lecture, Fordham University, October 1988.

26. “Marx’s Notion of Class and Catholic Social Teaching,” International Peace Symposium, Sudzal, USSR, October 1988.

27. “Christian and Marxist Views about Being Human,” Conference in Grenada, Spain, August 1988.

28. “Feminist Philosophy: An Overview,” 7^th International Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, August 1988.

29. “Women in the Early Christian Community: A Revolutionary Alternative,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 1987.

30. “The Protest Element in Grief,” University of Western Ontario, Canada, June 1987.

31. “Women and Spirituality of Empowerment: Alternative Models,” Bryn Mawr College, April 1987.

32. “Silent Suffering: Unsanctioned and Unrecognized Grief in America,” Columbia University, Institute of Thanatology, March 1987.

33. “The Images of God in Elie Wiesel’s Writings,” Aquinas Forum Lecture Series, Siena Heights College, January 1987.

34. “The Protest Element of Grief,” Columbia University, Institute of Thanatology, March 1986.

35. “Women as Peacemakers: An American Catholic Response,” SWIP Conference, Mount Holyoke College, April 1985.

36. “Women as Peacemakers: An American Catholic Response,” Conference on Women, University of Pennsylvania, March 1985.

37. “Poverty: A Philosophical Response,” Aquinas Lecture, Siena Heights College, February 1985.

38. “Women in Community,” keynote address for Adrian Dominican Chapter Assembly, Chicago, IL, September 1984.

39. “Arms Race Debate,” Lansing College Newman Center, Lansing, MI, May 1984.

40. “The Arms Race: A Moral Question,” Physicians for Social Responsibility Chapter Meeting, Jackson, MI, April 1984.

41. “Bishops Pastoral on War and Peace,” St. Edmund’s Church, Warren, MI, March 1984.

42. “Can We Trust the Russians?” Lansing College Newman Center, Lansing, MI, February 1984.

43. “Catholic Institutions of Higher Education – Siena Heights College,” Adrian College Symposium on Church Related Institutions, Adrian, MI, January 1984.

44. “Women in the Church,” Chapter Assembly of Adrian Dominicans, Adrian, MI, October 1983.

45. “Bereavement,” United Methodist Church, Adrian, MI, October 1983.

CONFERENCE DIRECTOR

2003 "Catholic Social Thought and Globalization" (November)
"Pacem in Terris: 40 Years Later (March)

2002 “Modern Peacemakers: Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Ignacio Ellacuria”

2001 “The Experience of God”

1998 “Hildegard of Bingen” – Received Connelly Foundation Grant

1994 “Women and Poverty”

1992 “Voices of the Americas” – Received Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Grant

1991 “Women and Work” – Received Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant

1985 “The Pastoral on the Economy and Catholic Social Teaching”

SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2000 – 2003

· Member: Vice Presidents Council (ex officio)

· Member: Villanova Quality Improvement Council (ex officio)

· Member: University Senate (ex officio)

· Member: Greater Philadelphia Human Studies Council (1996-2002)

· Member: VQI Mission and Hiring Committee (2000-2001)

· Member: Ethics Steering Committee (1996- )

· Chair: Student Publication Committee (2000-2001)

· Member: University Outcomes Committee (1999- )

· Member: NCAA Self-Study / Certification Process (2001-2003)

· Member: Dissertation Committee for Michael Andrews (2000-2002)

· Chair: Augustine Initiatives Committee (2000- )

· Chair: Mission Effectiveness Committee (1998- )

· Member: Villanova University / Lebanese American University Committee (1999-2002)

· Chair: Committee on Catholic Social Thought and the Curriculum – organized faculty curriculum workshops in 2001 and 2002

· Chair: Environmental Studies Committee (1999-2001) – prepared Environmental Studies Proposal

· Co-chair: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Advisement Program Governing Board (1996-2000)

· Co-chair: Committee of Middle States Institutional Self-Study and member of Middle States Steering Committee (1998-2000)

· Member: University Honors and Awards Committee (1994- )

· Member: Cultural Diversity Steering Committee and Chair of the Faculty Recruitment and Retention Committee (1994-1997)

· Member: Philosophy Department Hiring Search Committees (1998-2002)

· Member: Philosophy Department Graduate Committee (1994-1996) / (2002- )

· Member: University Task Force on Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures (1991-1993)

· Founder and Director: Women’s Studies Program (1988-1999)

· Member: Center for Peace and Justice Education (1985-1995)

· Director: Center for Peace and Justice Education (1990-1995)

· Director: Ethics Program (1997-1999)

· Member: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee (1996-2000)

· Chair: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences College Outcomes Assessment Committee (1998-2000)

· Co-chair: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Task Force on Service Learning (1999-2000)

· Chair: Academic Standing Committee for Arts Students (1996-2000)

· Member: Summer School Task Force Steering Committee (1996)

· Co-coordinator: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Medallion Ceremony (1996-2000)

· Chair: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement Speaker Committee (1996-2000)

· College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Sexual Harassment Resource Person (1996-2000)

· Chair: Dr./Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Observance (1992-1995)

· Coordinator of Academic Convocation for Morris Dees (1994)

SERVICE AND SERVICE LEARNING TRIPS

1996 Advisor for Habitat for Humanity trip to Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (Spring break trip)

1995 Advisor for Habitat for Humanity trip to Ghana, Africa (16 days over January break)

1993 Advisor for student service trip to Mission de Amistad, Merida, Mexico (Fall break trip)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

1. Manuscript Reviewer for New City Press – Soliloquies: Augustine’s Interior Dialogue, 1999.

2. Served as resource person for Rosemont College’s Women’s Studies Program, 1996-1997.

3. Consultant to Hypatia as a reader for “Woman and Nature: A Reconsideration of Ecofeminist Appraisal,” 1996.

4. Member of Evaluation team for Peace Studies Program, Swarthmore College, 1996.

5. Manuscript reviewer for American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1995

6. Evaluator for Prentice-Hall text on feminist thought, 1995.

7. Consultant to Providence College’s Women’s Studies Program, 1995.

8. Manuscript reviewer for American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1995.

9. Member of Evaluation team for Philosophy Department, St. Francis College, Latrobe, PA, 1995.