Center for Study of Values Names New Fellows

The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life has announced five new Fellows for the 1998-99 academic year.

Jon Gunnemann is a professor of social ethics and the director of the graduate division of religion at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Gunnemann has been published widely, including a recent chapter titled "Love and Money: Thinking Theologically about the Economic" in Christian Ethics (1996). During the fall, Gunnemann will be writing a book on theology and economy that examines the relationship between theological and economic languages in public debates.

Janet Jakobsen is an assistant professor of women's studies and religious studies at the University of Arizona. Jakobsen has written numerous articles on feminism and public policy issues as well as a book titled Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (1997). Jakobsen will spend her year at the Center writing a book called Embodying Family Values, which analyzes the relationship between public discourses about values and the production of economic value.

Linda Nicholson is a professor in the departments of educational administration and policy studies, women's studies, and political science at the University at Albany. Nicholson is the author of two books, Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family (1986) and Theoretical Strategies: Modernism, Postmodernism, Feminism (1998), as well as numerous articles. She is also the editor of numerous books. During her year at the Center, Nicholson will be working on a book called The Psychological Self: Identity, Morality and Politics in the Twentieth Century in the United States.

Jeffrey Seglin, a noted business journalist, is the executive editor of Inc., a magazine that has 670,000 subscribers. Seglin has written widely for various newspapers and magazines and at Inc. he writes a regular column on business ethics called "Black and White." Among his thirteen books on business are Financing Your Small Business (1990) and The Year in Business: An Irreverent Look (1990). Seglin will spend his year at the Center working on a book that will examine the language of ethics in business.

Jim Wallis is editor-in-chief of Sojourners and the convener of "Call to Renewal," a network of Evangelical, Catholic, Black, Pentecostal and mainline Protestant churches and groups engaged in political action. His books include The Soul of Politics (1995) and Who Speaks for God? An Alternative to the Religious Right -- A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and Civility (1996) and his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Wallis will spend his year at the Center working on a book examining how faith communities can shape policy and political action around issues of poverty.