By Barbara A. McGraw, St. Mary’s College of California

Wardlaw Building, Poole Board Room

Tuesday, April 18, 5:00-6:00 PM

Barbara A. McGraw is a Professor of Social Ethics, Law, and Public life in the School of Liberal Arts and School of Economics and Business Administration at St. Mary’s College of California. Dr. McGraw also directs the Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism at St. Mary’s. She is editor of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. (2016).  She is lead co-editor (with Jo Renee Formicola) ofTaking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America's Sacred Ground, which is based on Dr. McGraw's earlier book entitled Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America.  She is also co-author (with Robert S. Ellwood) of Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions (2014). She holds a Juris Doctor Degree and a Ph.D. in Religion and Social Ethics, both from the University of Southern California.  Recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Advancement of Religious Pluralism, Dr. McGraw also is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, an Affiliate of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, and an activist for prison inmates' religious rights and for fair representation of the world's religions in California K-12 textbooks.