Diana Fritz Cates, Department of Religious Studies

314 Gilmore Hall • Iowa City, IA 52242 • 319-335-2164

Curriculum Vitae
Diana Fritz Cates

Business Address:
Department of Religious Studies
314 Gilmore Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-2172

E-mail: diana-cates@uiowa.edu

Education

1983-1990 Ph.D., Religious Studies, Brown University.

1979-1983 B.A., Philosophy, St. Olaf College.

Positions

1996-present Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Religious Studies.

1990-1996 Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, School of Religion.

1984-1989 Teaching Assistant, Brown University.

Honors and Awards

2005 University of Iowa Career Development Award.

2005 Obermann Center Scholar.

2004-2005 International Programs Major Research Project Award, “Human Rights Reading Group.” With Kenneth Cmiel (history) and Rex Honey (geography).

2003 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship for tenured faculty.

2002 New course, Ethics and the New Genetics, featured in Iowa Alumni Magazine, “It’s All in the Genes” by Leah Klevar.

2001-2002 University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant.

2001 Research featured in UI Arts and Sciences, “To Know, or Not?” by Lori Erickson.

2001 nTITLE seminar and grant for purchase of technologies that support classroom teaching.

2000 The Dartmouth Summer Faculty Institute on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.

1999-2000 University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant.

1999 University of Iowa Semester Assignment Award.

1995 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Award.

1993 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Iowa Council on Teaching.

1993 University of Iowa Semester Assignment Award.

1993 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant.

1991 University of Iowa Old Gold Summer Fellowship.

1989 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

1989 Brown University Award for Excellence in Teaching.

1989 Brown University Dissertation Fellowship.

SCHOLARSHIP

Publications

Books

Cates, Diana Fritz (in progress). Religious Ethics, Aquinas, and Emotion.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1997). Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.

Edited Books

Cates, Diana Fritz, and Paul Lauritzen, eds. (2001). Medicine and the Ethics of Care. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Journal Articles

Cates, Diana Fritz (forthcoming 2006). “Thomas Aquinas on Intimacy and Emotional Integrity.” Studies in Spirituality, Kees Waaijman, Hein Blommestijn, Wendy Litjens, eds., 16.

Cates, Diana Fritz (2005). The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions: Working with Gustafson and Nussbaum. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Christine Gudorf and Paul Lauritzen, eds., 25/1, 35-53.

Cates, Diana Fritz (2004). Honoring the Religious Impulse within the Arena of Genetic Counseling. Update, ed. Mark Carr, 19/1, 8-16.

Cates, Diana Fritz (2003). Conceiving Emotions: Martha Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought. Journal of Religious Ethics, Sumner B. Twiss and John Kelsay, eds., 31/2, 325-341 (invited).

Cates, Diana Fritz (1998). Ethics, Literature, and the Emotional Dimension of Moral Understanding. Journal of Religious Ethics, Sumner B. Twiss and John Kelsay, eds., 26/2, 409-431.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1992). Wickedness. The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, ed. Diane Yeager, 251-62.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1991). Toward an Ethic of Shared Selfhood. The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, ed. Harlan Beckley, 249-57.

Chapters in Edited Books

Cates, Diana Fritz (forthcoming in a form yet to be determined). Resources of Mind. The New Symposium: The Commons (convened in Paros, Greece, 2006). Sponsored (in part) by The University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP).

Cates, Diana Fritz (forthcoming). Experiential Narratives of Rape and Torture. Sponsored by the Humanities and Human Rights Education Project. Interpreting Atrocity: Humanities in Human Rights Education, Paul Lauritzen and Sumner B. Twiss, ed. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press).

Cates, Diana Fritz (2005). Spending the Day with a Good Friend: Autobiography, Moral Character, and the Religious Imagination. Sponsored by the Bonfils Seminar Project on Theological Ethics and the Arts. Seeking Goodness and Beauty: The Use of Arts in Theological Ethics, edited by Patricia Lamoureux and Kevin O’Neil. Lanham, Md.: Roman and Littlefield, pp. 33-54 (Communication, Culture, and Theology Series).

Cates, Diana Fritz (2002). The Virtue of Temperance. The Ethics of Aquinas, edited by Stephen J. Pope. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 321-339.

Cates, Diana Fritz, and Paul Lauritzen (2001). Introduction. Medicine and the Ethics of Care, edited by Cates and Lauritzen. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, xiii-xxxiv.

Cates, Diana Fritz (2001). Caring for Girls and Women Who are Considering Abortion: Rethinking Informed Consent. Medicine and the Ethics of Care, edited by Cates and Lauritzen. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 162-203.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1999). Imaging and Speaking of God. Practice What You Preach: Virtue Ethics and Power in the Lives of Church Ministers and Their Congregations, edited by James Keenan and Joseph Kotva. Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed and Ward, 171-185.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1996). Taking Women's Experience Seriously: Thomas Aquinas and Audre Lorde on Anger. Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives, edited by G. Simon Harak, S.J. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 47-88.

Cates, Diana Fritz (1994). Commentary on Genetic Knowledge and Self-Understanding. Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics, edited by Robert F. Weir, Susan C. Lawrence, and Evan Fales. Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa Press, 59-62.

Book Reviews

Over 20 book reviews for Religious Studies Review, Reviews for Religion and Theology, Ethics, Soundings, and Journal of Religion.

Papers and Presentations

Professional Meetings and Conferences

Invited participant. The New Symposium: The Commons. Convened in Paros, Greece. Sponsored by The University of Iowa International Writing Program, 2006.

“Thomas Aquinas on Friendship: Cultivating Intimacy and Emotional Integrity.” Address for the Ninth Annual Thomas Aquinas Symposium, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, 2006.

Funded participant of Humanities and Human Rights Education Project (John Carroll University and Florida State University), 2005-2006.

“The Religious Ethical Study of Emotion.” Keynote address for the Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium in Religious Studies, Florida State University, 2005.

Graduate seminar on the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas. Florida State University, 2005.

“The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2004.

“Honoring the Religious Impulse within the Arena of Genetic Counseling.” Address for the Loma Linda University Center for Christian Bioethics conference, “Promise and Peril of the New Genetics,” 2003.

Funded participant of the Bonfils Seminar Project on Theological Ethics and the Arts, 2001-2003.

Breakfast with an Author. Discussion of Medicine and the Ethics of Care. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2002.

“Natural Law, Virtue, and the Determination of Appetitive Rightness.” Presentation for the Ethics and Sexuality Interest Group. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2001.

“Educating for Life or Moralizing? Shaping Moral Character in the Classroom.” Presentation for the Pedagogy Interest Group. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2001.

Discussion Leader for Breakfast with an Author. Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas. By Cristina Traina. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2000.

Breakfast with an Author. Discussion of Choosing to Feel. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1998.

“Feeling the Same Pain as Another: The Possibility of Compassion.” Roberts Lecture, Grinnell College, 1997.

“Anger and Oppression.” Paper presented to The Ethics Section of The American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Upper Midwest Regional Meeting, 1995.

“The Structure of Emotion.” Paper presented to The Brock Philosophical Society Symposium on Eros, Philia, and Agape in the Writings of Martha Nussbaum. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 1994.

Respondent to Arthur Waskow. The Annual Consultation of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, 1989.

University of Iowa

Moderator. Geneva Lecture Series presentation and panel featuring bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino, M.D., 2005.

“Investigating Worries and Fears about Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” Panel commentary/paper presention for “Creating Life? Examining the Legal, Ethical and Medical Issues of Assisted Reproductive Technologies,” 9th Annual Symposium of The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, The University of Iowa College of Law, 2004.

“Religious Moralities of Sexuality.” Presentation for 154:110, Introduction to Sexuality Studies, 2004.

“Religion, Narrative, and Healing.” Guest presentation for 143:050, Illness and Healing Honors Seminar, 2003.

“The Power of Perception.” Panelist at the kick-off event for the “Good, Better, Best, Iowa” fundraising campaign, 2002.

“Embryo Research and the Status of the Early Embryo.” Presentation for the University of Iowa Bioethics Journal Club, 2001.

Global Assembly: Advancing the Human Right to Health. Workshop leader for the University of Iowa Global Health Conference, 2001.

“Where are We Going? What are We Waiting For?” Panelist for a community discussion of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, 2000.

“The Human Genome Project and the Ethics of Nursing.” Presentation for the 2000 Women’s Health Conference, UIHC, 2000.

“Tartuffe and the Appeal of the Religious Con-Man: A Conversation between Miriam Gilbert, Department of English, and Diana Cates, School of Religion.” Thursday Theatre Talk, Riverside Theatre, 2000.

“Religion and Human Rights.” Guest presentation for 152:120, Health and Human Rights, 2000.

“Caring for Girls and Women who are Considering Abortion.” Paper presented to the University of Iowa Bioethics Forum, 2000.

“The Moral Dimensions of Good Citizenship.” Panel paper presented to the University of Education Today: Isocrates Between Sophists and Philosophers,” 1998.

University of Iowa Presidential Seminar. Presenter, 1998.

“Five on Feminism.” Panelist. Women's Resource and Action Center, 1996.

“Jews and Christians in Dialogue: The Challenge in the ‘Love Your Neighbor’ Traditions.” Panelist, 1995.

“The Ethics of Anger.” Paper presented to The Ethics Seminar, co-sponsored by the College of Business Administration and the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1995.

“Aristotle and Feminist Ethics.” Guest presentation for 33:050, Making Choices: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1995.

Funded participant of The R.I.S.K. Project, the Interdisciplinary Program in Literature, Science, and the Arts, 1995.

“The Writings of Martha Nussbaum.” Presentation to The Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1995.

Respondent to Michael Harris. Honors Program presentation on the meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, 1995.

“Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love.” Presentation to The Eliatic Society Great Books Seminar, 1994.

“Genetic Knowledge and Self-Understanding”. Panel paper presented to the University of Iowa Humanities Symposium, "Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics," 1992.

“Sharing Selves: Friendship as Context for Moral Deliberation.” Presentation to the Women's Studies Brownbag, 1992.

“Educating the Emotions.” The University of Iowa School of Religion Adler Luncheon Address, 1991.

Respondent to C. Stephen Evans: “Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion.” Geneva Lecture Series Colloquium, The University of Iowa, 1990.

Other Settings

“Spiritual Friendship: Aristotle for the 21st Century.” Presentation for Iowa City EarthSpirit, 2006.

“Being Good and Choosing Well: Exploring the Process of Ethical Decision Making.” Presentation for the Cedar River Theological Forum, Cedar Rapids, 2003.

“Ethics in a Pluralistic World.” Presentation for the interdenominational Dimensions of Faith Forum, Iowa City, IA, 2003.

“Sexual Ethics.” Presentation to the Central Iowa Continuing Education Forum of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Ankeny, IA, 2002.

Facilitator of meeting of Conference 7 pastors of the ELCA to discuss impact of recent terrorist events on interfaith dialogue, 2002.

“Doing Justice.” Presentation to the Southeastern Iowa Synod of ELCA Spring Cluster Meeting, 1999.

“Jewish and Christian Ethical Perspectives on Capital Punishment.” Presentation for Iowans Against the Death Penalty, 1997.

“Woman as Suffering Servant.” Presenter and Retreat Facilitator for the Southeastern Iowa Synod Women of the ELCA Annual Retreat, 1993.

Multiple-session Adult Forum presentations at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Iowa City, on the topics of “Prayer,” “Feminist Theology,” “Peace with Justice,” “Human Sexuality and the Christian Faith,” and “Foundations of Ethical Behavior,” 1991-1999.

TEACHING

Courses Taught at the University of Iowa

Undergraduate: Religion and Liberation, Sexual Ethics, Religious Ethics, History of Religious Ethics, Genes and the Human Condition, Senior Seminar, Independent Studies, Reading Courses, Honors Tutorials.

Graduate: Teaching Religious Studies, Ethics of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, Ethics of Kierkegaard, Passions and Religious Affections, Proseminar in Theology, Ethics, and Culture, Feminist Ethics, Independent Studies, Readings in Religious Ethics (including Liberation Theology and Ethics, Social Ethics, The History of Ethics, Black and Womanist Ethics, Psychoanalysis and Ethics, Comparative Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Bioethics).

Doctoral Dissertations Directed

Mary Nona Pugh (2005). The Neglected Dimension of Love: Sacrificial Love and its Role in Christian Ethics.

Sandra Faye Gines (2002). Quiet Courage: Fortifying the Self to be Vulnerable from within an Aristotelian-Thomistic Conception of Virtue and a Good Human Life.

Don L. Davis (2000). Black and Human: Rediscovering King as a Resource for Black Theology and Ethics.

Robert L. Grant (1999). What Earth has Given, and Human Hands Have Made: Applying Thomas’ Theory of the Good to Environmental Ethics.

Shelly Hall (1997). Faith, Compassion and Religious Understanding in Julian of Norwich's Showings.

Christopher Johnson (1996). Envisioning Forgiveness: Frameworks of Justice and Forgiveness in the Moral Life.

Masters Degrees Directed

Debra Savage (2004); Beth Shields (2001).

Undergraduate Honors Theses Directed

Sara Dohrman (2003). What Came First, the Catholic or the Egg? Diverse Catholic Voices on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

Nathan Kron (2001). The Integrating Theocentric Perspective: A Framework for Christian Environmental Ethics.

Tanya Besler (1999). Liberating Partnership Found in Submission to God.

M. J. Gravel (1995). Soren Kierkegaard's Ethic of Freedom and Human Dignity.

Lori Rath (1993). The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas.

SERVICE

National

Manuscript Reviewer. Georgetown University Press, 2006.

Member, Board of Directors. The Society of Christian Ethics, 2006-2010.

Member, Finance Committee. The Society of Christian Ethics, 2006.

Referee. The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2006.

Session Convener. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2005.

Member. Executive Director’s Office Task Force, 2004-2005.

Member. Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious Ethics, 2003-2009.

Ethics Representative. Advisory Committee, Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders, Iowa Department of Public Health, 2003-2006.

Manuscript Reviewer. American Philosophical Quarterly, 2003.

Manuscript Reviewer. Blackwell Press, 2003.

Referee. The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2002-2003.

Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Religious Ethics, 2002.

Convener. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2002.

Member. Nominating Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2001-2002.

Member. Editorial Board, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1998-2001.

Referee. The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1998-2000.

Editor. Ethics Booknotes, Religious Studies Review, 1996-1999.

Member. Nominating Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1996-1997.

Convener. Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1996.

Referee. The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1994.

University

Project Director/Co-Writer of NEH Curriculum Development Grant Proposal on behalf of the UI Center for Human Rights, “Exploring Human Rights Across the Humanities.” 2006.

Co-Facilitator (with Gina Crosheck). Fall retreat for the Executive Board of the UI Center for Human Rights, 2006.

Member. Arts and Humanities Initiative Advisory Board, 2005-2007.

Member. The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights Executive Board, 2004-present.

Member. Year of the Arts and Humanities Steering Committee, 2003-2004.

Member. The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights Executive Board, 2002-present.

Moderator. “The Soul of the University: A Conversation with Thomas Moore and David Skorton,” 2002.

Member. Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Advisory Committee, 2000-2002.

Member. Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Arts & Humanities, 2001-2002.

Reviewer and Review Committee Convener. College of Liberal Arts review of the UI Psychology Department, 2001.

Member. Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Arts & Humanities, 1998, 2000.

Session Chair. “Women, Religion and Politics.” The University of Iowa Humanities Symposium, “Uses of Suffrage: Women, Politics and Social Change Since 1920,” 1996.

Member. Advisory Board of the University of Iowa Women's Resource and Action Center, 1993-1995.

Departmental

Convener. Modern Religious Thought area of the department, 2000-present.

Member. Search committee for position in Religion, Politics, and Social Justice, 2004.

Director of Graduate Studies, Fall semester, 2004.

Chair. Search Committee for position in Islam, 2003-2004.

Chair. Department of Religious Studies Programs Committee, 1996-2003.

Member, Search committee for position in Chinese Religions, 2002-2003.

Editor. James C. Spalding Lecture, published annually, 1999, 2002.

Member. Search Committee for Krumm Family Chair position, 2000-2001.

Member. Search Committee for Modern Religious Thought position, 1998-1999.

Member. Search Committee for one year Catholic Studies position, 1997-1998.

Member. Search Committee for Theology position, 1992-1993.

Member. Search Committee for Reformation position, 1991-1992.

Member. Undergraduate Committee, 1990-1992.

Local

Moderator. Call to Common Mission Forum (featuring Dr. George Forrell and Bishop Hougen), Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 2003.

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