“Civic Kinship: A Christian Ethics of Immigration”
Presented byKristin Heyer, PhD Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies Santa Clara UniversityMonday, March 4, 2013 3:00–4:30 p.m. Belson Hall, Room 1-13 Dr. Kristin Heyer is the author of Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethics of Immigration (Georgetown University Press, 2012) and Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism (Georgetown University Press, 2006), which won the College Theology Society’s Best Book Award. In addition, she is co-editor of Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension 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 TheologicalStudies and presently serves on the planning committee for Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church. She taught at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA, for six years before joining Santa Clara’s faculty in 2009. Dr. Heyer received a BA from Brown University and a PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College in 2003. She resides in San Jose, CA, with her husband Mark Potter, provincial assistant for social ministries for the Jesuits of the California Province), and their sons, Owen and Luke.A reception will immediately follow the presentation in the HR Training Room in Carnesecca Arena.