Date:
March 4, 2013
Time:
3:00-4:30pm
Location:
Law School 1-13*
Fifth Annual St. John's College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Catholic Lecture Series
"Civic Kinship: A Christian Ethic of Immigration"
Presented by
Kristin Heyer, Ph.D.
Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies
Santa Clara University
Reception immediately following in the HR Training Room
(former Faculty Club) in Carnesecca arena
Kristin Heyer received her B.A. from Brown University and her
Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College in 2003. She is the
author of Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration
(Georgetown University Press, 2012), Prophetic and Public: the
Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (Georgetown University Press,
2006), which won the College Theology Society’s “Best Book Award,”
and co-editor of Catholics and Politics: Dynamic Tensions between
Faith and Power (Georgetown University Press, 2008). Her articles
have appeared in Theological Studies, The Journal of Peace and
Justice Studies, Political Theology, and America. She has served on
the boards of the Catholic Theological Society of America and
Theological Studies and presently serves on the planning committee
for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church. She taught at
Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles for six years before
joining Santa Clara’s faculty in 2009. She resides in San Jose with
her husband Mark Potter, Provincial Assistant for Social Ministries
for the Jesuits (CA Province), and their sons Owen (7) and Luke
(4).
*Enter the Law School through the main doors (Belson Hall). Room
1-13 is the first room on your right.