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HELENE SLESSAREV-JAMIR
Mildred M. Hutchinson Professor of Urban Ministries;
Office: Craig 202
Phone: (909) 447-2542
Email: HSlessarevJamir@cst.edu
Personal Web Site
Helene Slessarev-Jamir is currently researching the character of religiously inspired justice work in response to globalization and American empire. She is working on a book on contemporary progressive prophetic activism in the United States that will include chapters on congregational community organizing, activism in support of worker justice, immigrant rights, peace-making, and ending global poverty.
Her earlier work includes reports on national promising practices in community-based ministry among Asian and Hispanic immigrant religious communities published by the Annie-E. Casey Foundation She has also written articles on congregational based community organizing and the role of public theology in an age of empire. She has an extensive background doing community-based consulting work and worked as a union and community organizer in Washington D.C. and Chicago prior to going to graduate school.
She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Sojourners and serves on the UMC's National Committee for Hispanic/Latino Ministry and its National Immigration Task Force.
EDUCATION
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
M.A, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS
"The Contested Church: Multiple Others of the Evangelical Multitude" in Bruce Benson and Peter Heltzel, eds., Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo, (Grand Rapids MI: Brazos Press: 2008)
"The Mission of Public Theology in an Age of Empire" Missiology: An International
Review, Vol.XXXIV, no. 1, January 2006.
Sustaining Hope and Creating Opportunities: Family Focused Ministry among Hispanic Immigrants, Published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, January 2004.
A Place of Refuge and Sustenance: How Faith Institutions Strengthen the Families of Poor and Disadvantaged Asian Immigrants, Published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, December, 2003.
The Betrayal of the Urban Poor Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 1997.
Job Training Under the New Federalism Gary Orfield and Helene Slessarev, Chicago:
Illinois Unemployment and Job Training Research Project, 1986.
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