Marcia Pally
Adjunct Professor Marcia Pally teaches at New York University, at Fordham University, and is a regular guest professor at the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University zu Berlin. Her most recent books are Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (Eerdmans, 2016) and The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good (in German: Die neuen Evangelikalen: Freiheitsgewinne durch fromme Politik). Pally's research interests include religion, culture, and politics as well as The Intersection of language and culture. During the 1990s, as President of the Feminists for Free Expression, she published frequently in defense of [...], but seems to have stepped away from first amendment questions in recent years.
Pally spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2010 and has been awarded the prestigious Mercator Guest Professorship (German Research Foundation) as well as grants from the German Academic Exchange Service and from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. In addition, she is the co-Recipient of a German Research Foundation grant to compare the political ethics and activism of American and German evangelicals, the only study of its kind.
She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) in 2007 and 2010. She earned her doctorate from New York University in 1995.
Author
In addition to her academic work, Prof. Pally has been a columnist in the U.S. and Europe for over 20 years, writing for Religion and Ethics, Religion News Service Commonweal, Religion News Service, Christian Living,. She has published one opinion piece in The New York Times, two comments in The Guardian, and columns in Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tageszeitung, Berliner Zeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau, among other periodicals.
Marcia Pally has given lectures at many universities and professional associations, among them Oxford, The University of Chicago, Harvard, Columbia University, Telos Institute, Humboldt University (Berlin), The Free University-Berlin, The University of Zurich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Ruhr University-Bochum, Bielefeld University, The Cato Institute, the Aspen Institute-Berlin.
In the field of language acquisition, Pally has edited Sustained Content-Based Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL, for which she also wrote several chapters. She is the author of Screening English: Studying Movies for Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking (1997, Pearson Press). Other articles in that field have appeared in Language and Education, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Journal of Basic Writing.
Selective bibliography
- Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
- The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good
- Die hintergründige Religion: der Einfluss des Evangelikalismus auf Gewissensfreiheit, Pluralismus und die US-amerikanische Politik
- Sustained Content-teaching
- Remarks At The Cato Institute Policy Forum: Do Movies And Music Cause Violence? [...], Cyberspace, And The First Amendment 1