Fordham University’s faculty and staff remain leaders in their fields, innovating and making meaningful contributions across disciplines. Their dedication and expertise are regularly recognized with prestigious honors and awards. Take a look at the latest achievements from our community below.
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Thomas Massaro, SJ, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society and professor of theology, was invited to deliver a presentation titled “The Concept of Human Dignity in the Roman Catholic Tradition” for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The presentation will be the first talk at the bishops’ semi-annual dialogue event with the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America at the Manhattan headquarters of the Orthodox Union in New York City on Nov. 2.
Ki-Eun Jang, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, assistant professor of theology, published a new monograph titled Contesting Labeled Identities: The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature (Mohr Siebeck, October 2026), which interrogates how identity labels were claimed, disclaimed, and reappropriated across ancient West Asian texts, challenging the prevailing Barthian paradigm of ethnic groups and boundaries that modern scholars use to interpret them.
Steven Jefferson, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, assistant professor of sociology, was elected as a founding council member of the American Sociological Association’s newest section-in-formation, Creative Sociology, on Oct. 1. The section unites sociologists who are creative thinkers, artists, rule-breakers, and method innovators to connect, collaborate, and support one another’s scholarly work and artistic passions.
