Professor Anne M. Clifford, C.S.J.
2007-2008 Tuohy Chair Holder

Anne M. Clifford is a Sister of St. Joseph and theologian with an overarching interest in the relations of religion to many facets of American culture, including to the natural sciences, gender as a social construct, and the environment in this time of global climate change. A graduate of Carlow University (B.A.), the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago (M.A.), and The Catholic University of America (Ph.D.), Dr. Clifford is an Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the University Core Curriculum at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa. She is currently the President of the College Theology Society (2006-2007) and has served as the Convener for the Theological Anthropology Section of the annual Catholic Theological Society of America conferences (1996-1998 and 2003-2006).

Among her publications are articles on theology and science and ecological theology in monographs, encyclopedias, and journals. She is the author of Introducing Feminist Theology (2001, a winner of a Catholic Press Association award). She is co-editor of Christology: Memory, Inquiry, Practice (2003) and a contributing editor of the revised New Catholic Encyclopedia (2003). Her current major project is Man, Woman, Earth: Christian Anthropology (in the Orbis Books’ “Theology in Global Perspectives” series, forthcoming). She has been an invited participant to numerous conferences on theology and science and on ecological theology, including ecumenical conferences of international scholars held in Castel Gandolfo and Warsaw, co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

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