Caufield, Catherine
Religious Studies
Athabasca University
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ccaufield@athabascau.ca
+1 780 977-8941 (cell)
Dr. Caufield received a BSc in Nursing with distinction from the University of Ottawa in 1989, an MA in Religious Studies with distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1995, and earned her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto in 2000. She has received a number of awards, including a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Foreign Government Award with the Government of Mexico. She taught at the University of Alberta from 2002-2013 where she served in the Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Art's Religious Studies Program and Latin American Studies Programs. Dr. Caufield coordinated all sections of the "Introduction to World Religions" course 2012-2013, and the International Research Capacity-Building Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas, a program hosted by the Faculty of Nursing and funded by the Organization of American States in 2003. She has published numerous articles in referred journals, as well as the book Hermeneutical Approaches to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative. Her second monograph, Shmiot Fugue: Exploring Neomysticism through Contemporary Jewish-Mexican Fiction, is forthcoming.
Areas of Interest
Health and Healthcare
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intra-cultural dialogue
Pluralism and Multiculturalism
Women