Julia Feder, Ph.D. is a Catholic feminist theologian who troubles the sanctification of human suffering.  She is the assistant director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality and associate professor of religious Studies and theology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN.  Previously, she was an associate professor of theology at Creighton University and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame.  She is the author of Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma and co-principal investigator of “Just One Jesuit: Communities’ Accounts of the Effects of Clergy Abuse Through the Lens of a Singular Priest’s Mission Activities,” a grant from Fordham University’s “Taking Responsibility Project.”  While a research fellow at Notre Dame, she was in formal dialogue with biological anthropologists about the centrality of symbol-making in human evolution.  In all things, she is devoted to exploring practices of radical community and homemaking.