Our esteemed colleague
Lucinda Joy Peach died July 25, 2008, of sudden complications following
treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer. She was 52.
Dr. Peach specialized
in moral philosophy, applied ethics (including bioethics, feminist ethics, and
legal ethics), religion and politics, gender and religion, and women’s
studies.
As Co-Director of the
Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs M.A. program in CAS and SIS, Professor Peach
taught popular seminars in Ethical Theory, Modern Moral Problems, and, Global
Ethics. She also taught a wide variety of courses in the General Education
Program, both in Philosophy and in the Program in Women's and Gender Studies.
She was an
internationally respected scholar with numerous articles and chapters on gender
and violence, the ethics of war, and women's human rights, including the
trafficking of women sex-workers as a human rights violation. She is the author
of Legislating Morality: Religious
Identity and Moral Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002), and the editor
of Women and World Religions
(Prentice Hall, 2002) and Women in
Culture: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers 1998). Her work was recognized
with prominent grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the
Dr. Peach earned a
Ph.D. in ethics from the Department of Religious Studies at
Her colleagues in
Philosophy and Religion will remember her invaluable contributions to teaching,
scholarship, and service at all levels and her legacy as a builder of the
Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs Program. We honor her leadership,
collegiality, commitment, and the courage and determination with which she faced
her illness. We will miss her friendship, kindness, and indefatigable
spirit.
Tributes to Lucinda
Peach may be sent to [log in to unmask]. These will be shared with
her family. A memorial service will take place at