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Each year at the SBL Annual Meeting, CSWP honors women who have been excellent mentors to women in the field. These mentors have provided invaluable guidance, advice, and encouragement. They serve as role models and assist other women in navigating career choices, building professional networks, and developing strategies for personal growth and work-life balance. By virtue of their mentorship, they have taken us a step further in promoting gender equity, gender diversity, and women’s professional status in the field. CSWP honors mentors in order to recognize their contributions and to encourage mentoring relationships.
Recognizing that mentorship looks different in various cultural contexts, we invite members to nominate women who they see as outstanding mentors. This could include those who they see as going above and beyond for others, acting as role models, helping others to gain insight and confidence, providing substantive feedback and encouragement, opening up access to opportunities and professional development, and helping people to find intellectual homes in the field. We take an expansive view of mentorship, recognizing that a mentor does not necessarily have to be a doctoral advisor or sponsor, and can include mentors at all stages of their career.
To nominate a member, please send your nomination with a descriptive letter of endorsement to Meira Kensky (mkensky@coe.edu). Your letter should include specific examples of how the mentor supported you and others in some of the ways outlined above (or other ways). We welcome letters written by multiple senders; letters should describe the impact the mentor has had on the nominator(s) over the course of their career. Nominations should be received by June 1.
Please join us in congratulating the 2024 Status of Women in the Profession Mentor Award recipients:
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Katherine E. Southwood is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Her research is characterized by interdisciplinary engagement between Biblical texts and the Social Sciences. Katherine’s research interests include Job, pain, the body, death, Judges, Ezra-Nehemiah, Ahiqar, Tobit, exile, and gender. Katherine has published five books including a recent monograph Job’s Body and the Dramatized Comedy of “Moralising” (Routledge: Oxford and New York, 2021) and two recent articles: ‘Trauma, brokenness, and pain in the Book of Lamentations: Empathetic attention as a hermeneutic for thinking about rehabilitation of health’ in Jews and Health: History, Tradition, and Practice Ed, Catherine Hezser. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023 Pp. 23-42; and with James W. Southwood (Clinical Psychologist, NHS England) ‘Job as a work of laughtears and learning: Comedy, pain, and audience empathy’ Bible and Critical Theory 18/2 (2022), 1-16. As part of this research into illness, pain, empathy, and finding meaning, Katherine convened several conferences with NHS chaplains, funded by a Wellcome Institutional Public Engagement with Research grant.
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Tina Pippin is the Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. She was a member of The Bible and Culture Collective (The Postmodern Bible, Yale UP, 1995), the author of Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John (WJK, 1999; reprint Cascade, 2021); Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image (Routledge, 1999) and the co-editor with Cheryl Kirk-Duggan of Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children (SBL, 2009), along with other publications on apocalyptic and the Bible and film studies. Her forthcoming book (Cascade 2025) is The Actual Jesus. Tina is the first recipient of the American Academy of Religion’s Excellence in Teaching Award. She is an activist-educator and also co-hosts a radical pedagogy podcast with Lucia Hulsether, Nothing Never Happens, at https://nothingneverhappens.org/.
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