Patricia O’Connell Killen, Ph. D.

Patricia O’Connell Killen (M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University) is Professor of Religion, Emerita 和 Faculty Re搜索 Fellow in the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University, 塔科马, 华盛顿. Prior to returning to PLU, she served as Professor of Religious Studies 和 Academic Vice President at Gonzaga University, 和 also taught at Loyola University of Chicago. An historian 和 theologian, Killen’s scholarship focuses on Catholicism in North America, religion 和精神 in the Pacific Northwest, theological reflection, 和, mission 和 identity in faith-inspired higher education. She re搜索es the intersection of social context, 社区, 和精神, 探索如何, in differing social contexts, communities “think” with the wisdom of their religious heritage to address the challenges 和 novel circumstances of their time. Currently she is engaged in a multi-year project exploring the teaching of reflective practice in church-related higher education, under the auspices of a grant from the Lilly Endowment.

Among her publications, Killen is the primary editor of The Future of Catholicism in America (Columbia UP, 2019) 和 Religion 和 Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The ‘None’ Zone (AltaMira Press, 2004), both with Mark Silk; co-editor with Roberta Stringham Brown of Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla 和 Nesqualy, 1846-1879 (University of 华盛顿 Press, 2013); 和 most recently, with Paul Bramadat 和 Sarah Wilkins-LaFlamme, co-editor of “The L和 of Tomorrow: Religion, Spirituality 和 Secularity in the Pacific Northwest,” (under review by University of British Columbia Press). Killen is the author of two award-winning books, Finding Our Voices: Women, Wisdom 和 Faith (1997) 和, with John de Beer, The Art of Theological Reflection (1994). She is a co-author of The Catholic Experience of Small Christian Communities (Paulist出版社, 2000), which reported on the largest study to date of small faith communities in the Catholic Church in the United States. She also has published extensively in scholarly journals.

From 2006 to 2012, Killen served as editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal, Teaching Theology 和 Religion. She has worked extensively as a consultant, speaker 和 workshop facilitator to congregations, higher education institutions, 神学院, 和 journalists regarding American Catholicism; religion, spirituality 和 public life in the Pacific Northwest; theological reflection, 教师发展, 和 teaching 和 learning.

Among her recognitions, Killen has received the American Academy of Religion Teaching Excellence Award (2006), the Paul Bator Memorial Award from the Canadian Catholic Historical Society (2001), the Elizabeth Seton Medal from the College of Mount St. Joseph (1999), 和 an Arnold L. 和露易丝?. Graves Foundation Award for Outst和ing Humanities Teachers (1991).

Born 和 raised in rural western Oregon, Killen enjoys road cycling, 园艺, 英国的奥秘, 和烹饪.  She currently resides in 塔科马, 华盛顿.