The Founders: Pre-1980 WSRP RA’s

WSRP RAs (Historical Image)

Polly Allen Robinson

WSRP Research Associate 1973-74

Research project: The Good Woman as Just—Philosophical Exploration

Rose Horman Arthur

WSRP Research Associate 1979-80

Research project: Feminine motifs in eight of Nag Hammadi documents

Clarissa Atkinson

WSRP Research Associate 1974-75
WSRP Research Associate 1975-76

Research projects: Place of women in conversion of western Europe 500-900, CE; Women, marriage and sexuality in 16th cent. thought

Dorothy Bass

WSRP Research Associate 1977-78
WSRP Research Associate 1978-79

Research project: Antislavery origins of American feminism; preparation of an updated bibliography on American Women in Church and Society

Bernadette Brooten

WSRP Research Associate 1978-79

Research project: Status of women and their official roles in the synagogue in ancient Judaism; the status of women in antiquity.

Muriel Chase

WSRP Research Associate 1973-74

Research project: History of black women in the black church in America

Mary T. Condren

WSRP Research Associate 1979-80

Research project: Ministry as empowerment and ministerial psychology; the "church as woman" in relation to society; feminist theology

Mary Lee Daugherty

WSRP Research Associate 1977-78

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

WSRP Research Associate 1978-79

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

WSRP Research Associate 1976-77

Research project: Black women seminarians—Employment, role definition and curriculum

Elinor Gadon

WSRP Research Associate 1979-80

Research project: The role of women in India mythology; contemporary Indian women

Jacquelyn Grant

WSRP Research Associate 1977-78
WSRP Research Associate 1978-79

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