Phyllis Zagano Explained

Phyllis Zagano
Birth Date:25 August 1947
Birth Place:Queens, New York
Employer:Hofstra University
Awards:Fulbright Fellow, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 2009; Fulbright Senior Scholar, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2015
Occupation:Researcher and adjunct professor

Phyllis Zagano (born August 25, 1947)[1] is an American author and academic. She has written and spoken on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons.[2] [3] [4] [5] Her writings have been variously translated into Indonesian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.[6]

Early life and education

Zagano was born in Queens, New York in 1947.[1] She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1965. She has a BA from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York (1969); master's degrees in communications from Boston University (1970), in literature from Long Island University (1972), and in theology from St. John's University (1991); and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979.[1]

Career

Zagano was program officer at the National Humanities Center from 1979 to 1980, and taught at Fordham University from 1980 to 1984.[1] She was a researcher at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York from 1984 to 1986 and a Coolidge Fellow at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1987.[1] She taught at Boston University from 1988 to 1999.[1]

Since 2002, Zagano has taught at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where she is senior research associate-in-residence and adjunct professor of religion.[1] In 2005 she held a visiting professorship at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2009, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Limerick's Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, where she was a lecturer.[1] In 2015 she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Waterford Institute of Technology, in Waterford, Ireland.

Zagano's scholarship and work as a theologian has been recognized by both awards and critical engagement. She received "Layperson of the Year" award from Voice of the Faithful in 2012.[7] She received the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice from the Paulist Center of Boston in 2014.[8] [9] Two years later, in 2016, Pope Francis appointed Zagano to the Papal Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate.[10] [11] Prior to disputing with her ideas, Crisis Magazine described Zagano as "one of the most high-ranking feminists in the Catholic Church" in 2019.[12]

Zagano's career also includes over 30 years as public affairs office in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She retired from the Navy Reserve at the rank of Commander.

Beginning in 2008, she has regularly donated her papers to the Women and Leadership Archives of Loyola University Chicago.

Publications

Zagano's publications include:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maria L. Wagner, Laura Pearce, Melissa Newman . 2011 . Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D., Papers 1942-2021, n.d. . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20221114231034/https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/wla/pdfs-findingaids/Zagano,%20Phyllis%202022.pdf . 2022-11-14. Archived 23 June 2015.
  2. Web site: A Woman on the Altar. US Catholic. 3 January 2012 . 26 April 2012.
  3. Web site: Seeking Larger Role for Women in the Church. Newsday. 31 July 2012.
  4. Web site: "Essays boost case for women deacons". National Catholic Reporter. 1 September 2017.
  5. Web site: "Witness Interview: Phyllis Zagano"=. Salt & Light TV. 4 September 2017.
  6. Web site: Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D.. Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 14 August 2012.
  7. Web site: Reflections on Catherine of Siena by Dr. Phyllis Zagano after receiving "Layperson of the year" award from VOTF 9/15/12 FutureChurch. www.futurechurch.org. en. 2018-02-13.
  8. https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/zagano-accepts-social-justice-award Zagano accepts social justice award
  9. Dennis Coday, Zagano honored with Paulist justice award, National Catholic Reporter (January 23, 2014).
  10. Web site: Pope institutes commission to study the diaconate of women. Vatican Radio. August 2, 2016.
  11. Laurie Goodstein, Pope Francis Appoints Panel to Study Women Deacons: Q&A With a Member, New York Times (August 2, 2016): "Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of ordaining women as deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. On Tuesday, he named 12 experts — six men and six women — to serve on the panel. ... Phyllis Zagano, a professor of religion at Hofstra University ... was appointed by Francis to the commission."
  12. Web site: 2019-01-22 . The Gnostic Feminism of Phyllis Zagano . 2022-11-14 . Crisis Magazine . en-US.
  13. Web site: Book Review: The Dominican Tradition. Spiritualwoman.Net. 23 July 2012.
  14. Web site: 2012 Catholic Press Association Book Awards. Book Award Winners. 27 July 2012.
  15. Web site: It's Time to Ordain Women (Again). Religion Dispatches. 27 December 2011 . 23 July 2012.
  16. Web site: 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards. Book Award Winners. 4 September 2017.
  17. Web site: 2021 Catholic Press Association Book Awards. Book Award winners. 11 October 2021.

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