Phyllis Zagano

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Phyllis Zagano
Born (1947-08-25) August 25, 1947 (age 77)
Queens, New York, U.S. [1]
Education
Occupation(s)Researcher and adjunct professor
Employer Hofstra University
AwardsFulbright Fellow, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 2009; Fulbright Senior Scholar, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2015

Phyllis Zagano (born August 25, 1947) [1] is an American author and academic. She has written and spoken on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons. [2] [3] [4] [5] Her writings have been variously translated into Indonesian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. [6]

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Early life and education

Zagano was born in Queens, New York in 1947. [1] She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1965. She has a BA from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York (1969); master's degrees in communications from Boston University (1970), in literature from Long Island University (1972), and in theology from St. John's University (1991); and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979. [1]

Career

Zagano was program officer at the National Humanities Center from 1979 to 1980, and taught at Fordham University from 1980 to 1984. [1] She was a researcher at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York from 1984 to 1986 and a Coolidge Fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1987. [1] She taught at Boston University from 1988 to 1999. [1]

Since 2002, Zagano has taught at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where she is senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion. [1] In 2005 she held a visiting professorship at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2009, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Limerick's Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, where she was a lecturer. [1] In 2015 she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Waterford Institute of Technology, in Waterford, Ireland.

Zagano's scholarship and work as a theologian has been recognized by both awards and critical engagement. She received "Layperson of the Year" award from Voice of the Faithful in 2012. [7] She received the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice from the Paulist Center of Boston in 2014. [8] [9] Two years later, in 2016, Pope Francis appointed Zagano to the Papal Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate. [10] [11] Prior to disputing with her ideas, Crisis Magazine described Zagano as "one of the most high-ranking feminists in the Catholic Church" in 2019. [12]

Zagano's career also includes over 30 years as public affairs office in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She retired from the Navy Reserve at the rank of Commander. [1]

Beginning in 2008, she has regularly donated her papers to the Women and Leadership Archives of Loyola University Chicago. [1]

Publications

Zagano's publications include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Maria L. Wagner, Laura Pearce, Melissa Newman (2011). "Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D., Papers 1942-2021, n.d." (PDF). Archived from the original on 2022-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Archived 23 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "A Woman on the Altar". US Catholic. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Seeking Larger Role for Women in the Church". Newsday. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  4. ↑ ""Essays boost case for women deacons"". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  5. ↑ ""Witness Interview: Phyllis Zagano"=". Salt & Light TV. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D." Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "Reflections on Catherine of Siena by Dr. Phyllis Zagano after receiving "Layperson of the year" award from VOTF 9/15/12 | FutureChurch". www.futurechurch.org. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  8. ↑ Zagano accepts social justice award, National Catholic Reporter (January 28, 2014).
  9. ↑ Dennis Coday, Zagano honored with Paulist justice award, National Catholic Reporter (January 23, 2014).
  10. ↑ "Pope institutes commission to study the diaconate of women". Vatican Radio. August 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ Laurie Goodstein, Pope Francis Appoints Panel to Study Women Deacons: Q&A With a Member, New York Times (August 2, 2016): "Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. On Tuesday, he named 12 experts — six men and six women — to serve on the panel. ... Phyllis Zagano, a professor of religion at Hofstra University ... was appointed by Francis to the commission."
  12. ↑ "The Gnostic Feminism of Phyllis Zagano". Crisis Magazine. 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  13. ↑ "Book Review: The Dominican Tradition". Spiritualwoman.Net. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  14. ↑ "2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards" (PDF). Book Award Winners. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  15. ↑ "It's Time to Ordain Women (Again)". Religion Dispatches. 27 December 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  16. ↑ "2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards" (PDF). Book Award Winners. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  17. ↑ "2021 Catholic Press Association Book Awards" (PDF). Book Award winners. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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