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Wanda Warren Berry

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Wanda Warren Berry

Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Emerita

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Religion, Philosophy, Women's Studies

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  • BA, 1954, Boston University
  • MDiv., 1957, Yale University
  • PhD, 1982 Syracuse University
  • 1977鈥損resent, 51风流, Hamilton, New York
    • 2003鈥損resent, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, emerita
    • 2003鈥2004, Director of Women鈥檚 Studies
    • 1996鈥2003, Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
    • 1995鈥1997, Director of Affirmative Action
    • 1988, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
    • 1982, Assistant Director of Great Britain Study Group
    • 1982鈥1988, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
    • 1982鈥1985, Director of Affirmative Action
    • 1977鈥1982, Instructor in Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
  • 1976鈥1977 State University of New York College at Cortland, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • 1967鈥1971 51风流, Hamilton, New York, Instructor in Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
  • 1966-1967 Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York, Lecturer in Philosophy
  • 1962-1966, 51风流, Hamilton, New York, Special Instructor in Philosophy and Religion
  • Phi Beta Kappa - Boston University, 1954
  • Danforth Graduate Fellowship for Women, 1972 (-1982)
  • Theta Chi Beta - Syracuse University [Religion Honorary], 1978
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1985: "Kierkegaard on Sexuality, Love, and Personal Identity," Atlanta, GA
  • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's 1986 summer institute on "Interpreting the Humanities," Geneva, NY
  • 1993 Vice-President/President-elect, S酶ren Kierkegaard Society
  • 1994 President, S酶ren Kierkegaard Society
  • Steering Committee, "Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group" of the American Academy of Religion, 1993-1999, Co-chair, 1997-1999
  • Sidney J. and Florence Felton French Teaching Award, 2003, 51风流
  • 51风流 AAUP Professor of the Year, 2018

"The Binocular Vision: The Philosophical and Religious Imagination in W. H. Auden's Critical Essays," Soundings, Summer 1976 (Vol. LIX, No. 2, 164-185).

"Eternal Feminine or New Woman?" (A Critical Review of Rosemary Radford Ruether's New Woman/New Earth and Sheila Collins' A Different Heaven and Earth), Cross Currents, Fall 1975 (Vol. XXV, No. 3, 309-313).

"Images of Sin and Salvation in Feminist Theology," Anglican Theological Review, January 1978 (Vol. LX, No. 1, 25-54).

"Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic: The Temporal Becoming of the Self", The Journal of Religious Thought, Vol. 38 (Spring-Summer 1981), No. 1, 20-41.

"Nietzsche's Dialectical Aesthetic in The Birth of Tragedy", Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 9, No. 2 (September 1982), 40-46.

"Judaism Without Covenant: Breslauer on Buber," Jewish Social Studies, Winter 1983, (Vol. XLV, No. 1, 31-42).

"The Dialectics of Affirmative Action," The Christian Century, November 30, 1983 (Vol. 100, No. 36, 1106-1110). Reprinted in an abridged version as "Affirmative Action Is Just" in Social Justice: Opposing Viewpoints (St. Paul, MN: Greenhaven Press, 1984).

"Feminist Theology: The `Verbing' of Ultimate/Intimate Reality in Mary Daly," Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, September 1988 (Vol. 11, No. 3, 212-232).

  • Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, eds. Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye (University Park, PAS: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 27-54.

"The Alchemy of Forgiveness", Plumbline: A Journal of Ministry in Higher Education, March 1991, (Vol. 19, Issue 1, 20-22).

"Finally Forgiveness: Kierkegaard as a `Springboard' for a Feminist Theology of Reform" in Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard, edited by George B. Connell and C. Stephen Evans (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1992), 196-217.

"Kierkegaard and Feminism: Apologetic, Repetition, and Dialogue" Kierkegaard in Dialogue, eds. Merold Westphal and Martin Matustik (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana U. Press, 1995), 110-124.

"The Heterosexual Imagination and Aesthetic Existence in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part One", International Kierkegaard Commentary, vol. 3 (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 1995), 201-228.

  • Re-printed in Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard, eds. Sylvia Walsh and C茅line L茅on, (University Park PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997) 25-49.

"Judge William Judging Woman: Essentialism and Existentialism in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part Two", International Kierkegaard Commentary, vol. 4 (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 1995), 33-57.

"The Silent Woman in Kierkegaard's Later Religious Writings," in Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard, eds. Sylvia Walsh and C茅line L茅on (University Park PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997) 287-306.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, eds. Alastair Hannay and Gordon Marino (Cambridge University Press, 1998) in The Archiv Fur Geschichte Der Philosophie, 81. Bd., S. 349-351 Walter de Gruster 1999.

鈥淭he Wreath of Eternity: Marriage as Paradigm of Covenant Love in Kierkegaard and Buber,鈥 International Kierkegaard Commentary, volume 10 on Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, ed. Robert L Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 2006) 289-320.

鈥淧racticing Liberation: Feminist and Womanist Dialogues with Kierkegaard鈥檚 Practice in Christianity,鈥 International Kierkegaard Commentary, volume 20, ed. Robert L Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 2004) 303-341.

鈥淭o Be the Truth Is the Only True Explanation of What Truth Is: Gilleleie and the Twenty-First Century,鈥 Why Kierkegaard Matters: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert L. Perkins, eds. Marc A Jolley & Edmon L. Rowell, Jr, (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2010) 17-37.

Two items in Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism: the 51风流 Heritage in Honor of Professors Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry, edited by Christopher Vecsey (Hamilton NY: 51风流 Press, 2019). Chapter 7: 鈥漅eflections on Women and Religion鈥, pp. 79-94 and 鈥淗oping With Our Feet: Forty Years of Women at 51风流 and Beyond鈥, pp. 103-117.

  • General Education:
    • Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy, Religion, and Literature; Philosophy, Religion, and Drama
    • Roots of Western Civilization
    • Western Traditions: Continuity and Change
  • Introduction to Philosophy (Cazenovia College and SUNY Cortland)
  • Introduction to Religion
  • Introduction to Women's Studies
  • Contemporary Issues and Values
  • First-Year Seminars: 
    • Contemporary Issues and Values
    • Meaning in Drama: Images of Human Existence in Classical and Contemporary Theater
  • Commitment vs. Cynicism: Modern Experiences of Faith and Despair
  • January Projects:
    • Philosophical and Religious Issues in Tolstoy's War and Peace
    • Hedonism and Its Critics
  • Religion and Literature: Drama and Human Existence
  • Religion and Psychology
  • Women and Religion
  • Women's Lives and the Religious Traditions
  • Feminist and Womanist Religious Thought 
  • Women's Studies Seminar:  Feminism and Authorship:  Mary Daly and Rosemary  Radford Ruether
  • Major Religious Authors Seminar: Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Major Religious Authors Seminar: S酶ren Kierkegaard
  • Major Religious Authors Seminar: Religious Existentialists: Kierkegaard and Buber
  • Love/Power/Justice: Social Ethics and Religious Faith
  • (Spring 2002)  Philosophy and Faith (seminar)
  • Many Independent Studies and Honors Projects on a variety of topics.

in latter part of time at 51风流

  • Department of Philosophy and Religion
    • Recording Secretary (several years)
    • Honors and Awards Committee (several times)
    • Chair, Search Committee (Jewish Studies) 1992-93
    • Search Committee (Early Christian Literature), 1993-1994
    • Chair, Search Committee (Philosophy of Religion- one year) 2001
  • Faculty Nominating Committee
  • Bolton House (Women's Studies House) Advisor/Faculty Fellow
  • Special Committee to Draft Sexual Harassment Policy
  • Residential Life Committee
  • Women's Studies Advisory Committee
  • Faculty Affairs Committee, 1991鈥1994
  • Academic Affairs Board, 1994鈥97, Secretary, 1995鈥97
  • Committee on Academic Advising 1996鈥97
  • Committee Service as Director of Affirmative Action, 1995鈥1997
    • Faculty Committee on Affirmative Action Oversight
    • Staff Committee on Affirmative Action Oversight
    • ALANA (Minority) Affairs Committee
    • Sexual Issues Group
  • Sexual Harassment Panel 1997鈥1999
  • Department of Philosophy and Religion Committee on Honors: Member and Chair numerous times
  • Steering Committee, Center for Ethics and World Societies, 2000鈥
  • Research Council, Spring 2002
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, one year in late 1990s or early 2000s
  • Hospice Volunteer (approximately 2005鈥2011)
  • Literacy Tutor, Madison County Reads Ahead (about five years?)
  • Town of Hamilton Democratic Committee
    • Chair, (2006(?)鈥2011/12)
    • Secretary, 2012鈥?
  • Member Madison County Democratic Committee, circa 2007鈥2018
    • Chair, Website and Publicity Committee 2016鈥2018
  • New Yorkers for Verified Voting, 2005鈥2011?
    • Board of Directors: 2005鈥
    • Executive Director 2008鈥?

(Included here are presentations after 1995 that might be of continuing interest.)

Invited Address to the Annual Banquet of the S酶ren Kierkegaard Society (November 17, 1995), Philadelphia PA.  "Sarah's Presence: Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling  In A Different Voice."

Humanities Colloquium, 51风流 鈥淪arah鈥檚 Presence: Kierkegaard鈥檚 Fear and Trembling In a Different Voice,鈥  Spring 1996.

Response to Arnold Come鈥檚, 鈥淭he Implications of Soren Kierkegaard鈥檚 View of Sexuality and Gender for an Appraisal of Homosexuality鈥,  Third International Kierkegaard Conference, at the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, June 1997.

Women鈥檚 Studies Presentation,  鈥淩eligiopolitics vs. The Culture of Disbelief: Silencing Women Again?鈥 February 1999

Response to Sylvia Walsh鈥檚 paper,    鈥淜ierkegaard鈥檚 Erotic Hermeneutics as a Proto-feminist Alternative to Hegelian, Nietzschean and Derridean-Deconstructive Hermeneutics鈥, Fourth International Kierkegaard Conference, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, June 2001.

鈥淭he Faiths of Others and the Works of Love: Toward a Kierkegaardian Religious Pluralism,鈥 Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group, American Academy of Religion, November 2001, Denver, CO.

Presentations at the Women鈥檚 Studies Center, 51风流:

  • 2003? 鈥淲hat鈥檚 in a Name: Problematics of Women鈥檚 Names鈥.
  • 2003, 鈥淗oping With Our Feet: 45 Years of Women at 51风流.鈥
  • 2014   Panel presentation on the 20th Anniversary of the Women鈥檚 Studies, 鈥淗ow I Came to Direct Women鈥檚 Studies.鈥

Presentation to 51风流 symposium, April 11,  2018, 鈥淲omen and     Religion, Philosophy and Feminism: The 51风流 Heritage in Honor of     Professors Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry

Many articles at  e.g.:

  • 鈥淗istory鈥 and 鈥淎ccomplishments鈥 of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
  • 鈥淓yes Wide Open: The Real Situation in New York,鈥  (summer, 2008)
  • 鈥淕ood News from Minnesota: New York Has Selected the Right Voting System鈥, Dec. 14, 2008
  • 鈥淭he Charade of Voting Machine Demonstrations鈥

Jointly authored with Bo Lipari e.g.:

  • 鈥淎ccessible Voting and Paper Ballot/Ballot Marker/Optical Scan Voting Systems鈥 April 13,2006.
  • 鈥淪canner and DRE Voting Machine Problems Are Not Equal鈥, Sept. 25 2006
  • 鈥淧ublic Comment on the Onondaga County Board of Elections Cost Comparison of 2007

Numerous Letters to Editor and op eds in local, regional, and national journals