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July 4, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 13Oakland,
CA
Holy Names Sister elected
president of scholars’ association
Holy Names Sister Susan Marie Maloney has been elected
president of the American Academy of Religion/Western Region.
Sister Maloney, a faculty member at the University of Redlands in Southern
California, is the first member of a Catholic community of nuns to hold
this office. The American Academy of Religion is an association of scholars
dedicated to spreading information about religion and religious institutions
in all their various forms.
An alumna of St. Leo Elementary School, Holy Names High School and Holy
Names College, all in Oakland, and the University of Southern California,
Sister Maloney focuses her academic work on the link between women’s
experience and Catholic theology. Her latest article, “The Choices
Before Us: Anita M. Caspary and the Immaculate Heart Community,”
appears in a new 2005 book, “Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture
in the 1960s.”
She is the daughter of Vera Maloney, a member of St. Leo Parish in Oakland,
and the late David Maloney.
Sister Susan Marie Maloney
