The Founders: Pre-1980 WSRP RA’s
Polly Allen Robinson
Research project: The Good Woman as Just—Philosophical Exploration
Rose Horman Arthur
Research project: Feminine motifs in eight of Nag Hammadi documents
Clarissa Atkinson
Research projects: Place of women in conversion of western Europe 500-900, CE; Women, marriage and sexuality in 16th cent. thought
Dorothy Austin
Dorothy Bass
Research project: Antislavery origins of American feminism; preparation of an updated bibliography on American Women in Church and Society
Bernadette Brooten
Research project: Status of women and their official roles in the synagogue in ancient Judaism; the status of women in antiquity.
Muriel Chase
Research project: History of black women in the black church in America
Mary T. Condren
Research project: Ministry as empowerment and ministerial psychology; the "church as woman" in relation to society; feminist theology
Davida Crabtree (Foy)
Research project: Bibliography on Women and the City
Mary Lee Daugherty
Research project: Women in W. Virginia, their history, culture, needs and resources; serpent-handling/religious beliefs and practices in the Appalachian region
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Research project: Conception of God's power in the work of Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne; critical evaluation of male-dominated theological meaning systems and construction of a feminist framework of meaning in theology
Leah Fletcher
Research project: Black women seminarians—Employment, role definition and curriculum
Elinor Gadon
Research project: The role of women in India mythology; contemporary Indian women
Corinne "Renny" Golden
Jacquelyn Grant
Research project: Critical examination of the feminist analysis of the theological problem, with the development of a constructive alternative from a black woman's perspective; women and ministry in the Black Church; emerging Christian African Theologies