#  The Founders: Pre-1980 WSRP RA’s 

 



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  [### Polly Allen Robinson

 ](/people/polly-allen)WSRP Research Associate 1973-74

 

 

Research project: The Good Woman as Just—Philosophical Exploration



 

 

   [### Rose Horman Arthur

 ](/people/rose-horman-arthur) WSRP Research Associate 1979-80

 

 

Research project: Feminine motifs in eight of Nag Hammadi documents



 

 

   [### Clarissa Atkinson

 ](/people/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 Austin

 ](/people/dorothy-austin) WSRP Research Associate 1976-77

 

 

 

   [### Dorothy Bass

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/muriel-chase)WSRP Research Associate 1973-74

 

 

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



 

 

   [### Mary T. Condren

 ](/people/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



 

 

   [### Davida Crabtree (Foy)

 ](/people/davida-crabtree-foy)WSRP Research Associate 1975-76

 

 

Research project: Bibliography on Women and the City



 

 

   [### Mary Lee Daugherty

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/leah-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

 ](/people/leah-fletcher)WSRP Research Associate 1976-77

 

 

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



 

 

   [### Elinor Gadon

 ](/people/elinor-gadon)WSRP Research Associate 1979-80

 

 

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



 

 

   [### Corinne "Renny" Golden

 ](/people/corinne-renny-golden)WSRP Research Associate 1976-77

 

 

 

   [### Jacquelyn Grant

 ](/people/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



 

 

  

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