Research and Scholarship

Fr. Richard V. Paluse Mission-Related Research Award

The Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought is pleased to announce the Awardees of the Paluse Research Award for this inaugural year.

Dr. Jim Bailey, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
“Asset Building for the Poor, Capabilities, and Catholic Social Thought”

Dr. Norman Conti, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
“This Kind of Learning Changes Lives”: Conversion Narratives in Teacher-Activist Recruitment”

Dr. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
“Love, Justice, and Solidarity: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Principle of Subsidiarity”

Dr. Linda Kinnahan, Professor, Department of English
“The Poetry of Mina Loy and Radical Representations of Poverty”

We thank the members of the Committee for their distinguished work and we congratulate our four awardees. We look forward to their presentations in the Inaugural Paluse Lecture Series
and to the future publication of their work.   

From an endowment funded by a gift from the late Fr. Richard V. Paluse, these awards are awarded in support of the mission of the Center in fostering the study of social issues which are consistent with the ethos of Catholic Social thought from various perspectives of academic expertise. Up to four awards will be awarded  annually.

Requirements; Themes and Topics; Criteria and Outcomes (96K PDF)