Eleanor Humes Haney
Eleanor "Elly" Humes Haney (December 30, 1931 – July 10, 1999) was an American feminist theologian and community activist.[1]
Personal[edit]
Haney was born in Milford, Delaware, on December 30, 1931. She died on July 10, 1999, in Phippsburg, Maine.
Education[edit]
Haney attended The College of William & Mary, where she received a B.A. in English. She attended Wellesley College, where she received an M.A. in English. She obtained a master's degree in Religious Education (MRE) from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. She then went to Yale University where she obtained a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics.
Career[edit]
Haney held a number of teaching positions at different schools in the New England area: Virginia Union, Concordia College, the University of New England, Westbrook College, MECA (at the time, Portland School of Art), Bangor Theological Seminary and the University of Southern Maine.
Publications[edit]
She wrote six books on feminist theology, ecological ethics, economic justice, anti-racism and alliance-building, the most important being A Feminist Legacy: The Ethics of Wilma Scott Heide and Company (1985). Heide was the third national President of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Haney also wrote The Great Commandment: A Theology of Resistance and Transformation (Pilgrim Press, 1998).
Awards and recognition[edit]
Haney was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society.
She received the Hartman Award from the University of Maine in 1998.[2]
The Bangor Daily News described her as a "theology pioneer" and said she had "a major impact on Maine."[3]
Legacy[edit]
The Eleanor Humes Haney Fund (or foundation) is a charitable foundation funded by a grant from Haney. The aims of the fund is to give grants to charitable organisations in the New England Area that strive to:
■ Improve collaboration across a range of groups and constituencies to address major oppressions such as racism, sexism, classism and/or anthropocentrism.
■ Build alliances to challenge more effectively the status quo at any or all levels: local, state, national, and/or international.
■ Create effective ways to achieve social and economic justice.
■ Involve ethical principles that can be transferred to other contexts.
The fund has supported initiatives like :
■ Add Verb Productions (a non-profit organization headquartered in Portland, Mainly that provides health and wellness education through provocative theatre performances)[4]
■ Organizations focussing on LGBT issues like: Charlie Howard Remembered[5]
■ Organizations encouraging civic activism and sponsoring documentaries like "There ought to be a Law"[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Haney on the University of Southern Maine website
- ^ Bangor Daily News, November 9, 1998
- ^ "Bangor Daily News, November 28, 1998". Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ the Add Verb website
- ^ "The Inlaws and Outlaws website". Archived from the original on 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
- ^ "There Ought to be a Law website". Archived from the original on 2010-05-02. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
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