Conference Co-directors

Bruce T. Morrill, S.J., Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College, specializes in liturgical and sacramental theology. His degrees include a Ph.D. in theological studies from Emory University and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at Holy Cross, where he is researching and writing a book on liturgy and healing, tentatively titled, Divine Worship and Human Healing. In addition to his teaching and service at Boston College, Bruce presides at Sunday liturgies in several communities in the Archdiocese of Boston on a rotating basis. He also travels to Alaska, as his schedule allows, to practice pastoral ministry among the Yup'ik Eskimos on the Yukon Delta. Bruce's publications include his book, Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory: Political and Liturgical Theology in Dialogue, two edited books, and numerous articles and book reviews in such journals as Worship, Liturgical Ministry, Theological Studies, and New Theology Review. Contact

Susan Rodgers is Professor of Anthropology in Holy Cross's Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her 1978 Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago dealt with issues of ritual speech and local constructions of modernity in Angkola Batak culture, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Her current research deals with Batak literatures as resistance art, within the colonial Indies and contemporary Indonesia. Among her publications are Indonesian Religions in Transition, co-edited with Rita Smith Kipp (1987, U of Arizona Press), Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (1985, Prestel), Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and the Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia(1995, University of California Press), and Sitti Djaoerah: A Novel of Colonial Indonesia (a translation of a 1927 Batak novel. 1997, University of Wisconsin Southeast Asia Series). She is currently working on an interpretive anthropology of Batak turi-turian literary epics and has just completed a year at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Contact

Joanna Ziegler, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, came to the College of the Holy Cross in 1984, having received her Ph.D. that year from Brown University. Her research, for which she has won numerous grants and fellowships, has been published in a variety of books, exhibition catalogues, videos, articles and reviews. Her most recent book, co-authored with Mary Suydam, Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality (St. Martin's) is typical of her weaving such fields as art, architecture, spirituality and performance theory into ground-breaking studies of the medieval era. Contact