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| Name: | Dr. Mar Peter-Raoul |
| Title: | Assistant Professor, Religious Studies; Co-Projectkeeper, Marist Praxis Project for Public Citizenship |
| Office Location: | Fontaine 203 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2181 |
| Email: | Mar.Peter-Raoul@Marist.edu |
| Personal Web Page: | http://Mar at Marist |
| Degrees Held: | PH.D State University of New York at Binghamton, May 1991, Comparative Literature: Major - American Ethnic Literature; 1st Minor - Social Criticism; 2nd Minor - Third World Theologies. M.A. University of Notre Dame, July 31, 1987, Theology: Major - Social Ethics and Liberation Theology. M.A. SUNY at Binghamton, May 1982, Social Science: Major - Social Problems and Criticism. B.A. Harpur College, SUNY-Binghamton, 1979. All-College Honors, Major - Philosophy with Pyschology. |
| Certifications: | Certificate in Religious Studies, Oxford University, Summer 1995. Certificate in Advanced Religious Studies in Justice and Peace, Maryknoll School of Theology, August 1984. |
| Bio: | Ascribes to the prophetic vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Beloved Community. Has four sons - Jody, Jamie, Jory-Pierre, Tamathy, and one daughter - Heather Summer. Tried to raise them to be poets and beachcombers, but they all put themselves through College and became professionals. Resident-founder of the Beloved Community House in Binghamton, New York www.thebelovedcommunity.org. Treasures her kids, and her kids' kids. With Dr. Bruce Luske, co-founded the Marist Praxis Project for Public Citizenship and the Minor in Public Praxis www.marist.edu/liberalarts/philrel/pubpraxis/ or Search on Marist home page - Public praxis. Co-founded with Marist alumni Citizens for the Long Haul. |
| Interests: | Vigils, protests, humanizing the world, advocating for mothers in prison, social movments, reading theology and praxis-oriented pedagogy, writing scholarly work and also creative works, viewing documentary/film, daily reading New York Times, Common Dreams, Boston Globe and other news sources, communal gatherings, working lunches, getting to know mothers and their children who live on the pavement in Calcutta, establishing a relational project at the Sree Durga dump in Calcutta, traveling to poor countries with grandsons and students to set up projects. |
| Awards & Honors: | Named Ambassador for Peace, Spring 2006. Awarded a Sabbatical from Marist College to return to Calcutta and set up a Praxis Project with pavement mothers and children, gaining a glimpse of their views on their lives, and writing a certain liberation theology. Elected Treasurer, International Philosophers for Peace. Listed twice in Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities. The Marist Praxis Project for Public Citizenship chosen by the Templeton Foundation as one of 100 Colleges in the United States that best promotes Citizenship. Selected for Erasman Foundation Summer Scholar Progam, 2002. Selected as a Cooledge Fellow, Columbia University/Jewish Theoloical Union/Union Seminary, Summer 1999 |
| Publications: | Yearning to Breathe Free: Liberation Theologies in the U.S., Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1991, first editor; chapter, "From South Bronx to South Africa: Prayer, Praxis, Song." Letters to Michael: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Skepticism, Phil.: Christian Literature Crusade, 1979. "Mothers in Prison: Institutional Violence, Human Values, and Healing," The Netherlands: Rodopi Press, 1999. "Mothers in Prison..." reprinted, Shalom Papers: A Journal of Theolgy and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.: Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, 2001. "Justice as Structure and Strategy of Peace," The Netherlands: Rodopi Press, ca. 2000. "Justice..." reprinted, Culture and Quest for Peace Conference, Calcutta: International Society for Intercultural Studies and Research, 2002. Public Publications, regional papers. "Peace from Below: Building the Beloved Community of Martin Luther King," World Peace, Calcutta, 2005. "Jihad or the Beloved Community: Benjamin R. Barber on Terrorism and Global Democracy," Philosophical Perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism,'" edited by Gail Presbey. Panel presentation, "Project Public Citizenship" with Dr. Joseph Zeppetello, Conference, "Who Speaks for the Common Good?" Talk - "Emerging Spirit: Toward the Spirituality of a New Heroism," Eleventh International Conference of the International Philosophers for Peace. |
| Research Interests: | Liberation theology Social criticism Praxis-oriented pedagogy Social justice/Humanitarian concerns, in particular, mothers in prison and mothers and their children who live on the pavement in Calcutta People living at the Sree Durga dump in Calcutta With Sabbatical, expects to explore a liberative theology in Calcutta, 2007 Manuscript - Praxis and Public Citizenship: A Pedagogy of Conscience with Dr. Joseph Zeppetello |
| Conferences & Workshops: | Numerous: local, national, international. |
| Affiliations: | International Philosophers for Peace 1995 - present. International Society for Cultural Studies and Research - 2000 - present. American Association of Religion (intermittently). National Society of Experiential Education (intermittently). |
| Presentations: | Numerous: local, regional, national, international. Weekly CitizenWatch at Marist College. |
| Miscellaneous: | Would like to see Marist College graduate all its students - whatever their professional course and further aspirations - equipped for lives of Public/Global Citizenship. |
