My work has received recognition over the years in the form of awards, grants, and publication. See the column at right for more info.
Additionally, I’m a skilled presenter and workshop facilitator, with past engagements at peer-reviewed conferences, community non-profits, and educational settings. For more about my past work and current availability, please get in touch.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Community-Engaged Learning Grant, Emory University Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (2021)
Mellon Public Scholarship Teaching Fellowship, Emory University (2021-2022)
Religious Practices and Practical Theology Grant, Emory University (2019)
Woodruff Graduate Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University (2016-2021; Emory’s highest-level merit award for incoming PhD students)
Dean’s Fellowship, Harvard Divinity School (2013-2016)
Haverford House Fellowship, Haverford College (2010-2011)
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Haverford College (2010)
Magna Cum Laude, Haverford College (2010)
High Honors in Religious Studies, Haverford College (2010)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Curtis, Cara. 2021. “No One Left Behind: Learning From A Multidimensional Ethic of Care Women’s Prison in the US South.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 41(1), pp. 22-36.
Curtis, Cara, Jonathan Morgan, & Lance Laird. 2018. “Mothers’ Gardens in Arid Soil: A Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping among Marginalized U.S. Mothers with Depression.” Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health 20(4), pp. 293-320.
Morgan, Jonathan, Cara Curtis, & Lance Laird. 2017. "Stress and Hope at the Margins: Qualitative Research on Depression and Religious Coping among Low-Income Mothers." Archive for the Psychology of Religion 39(3), pp. 205-234.
Laird, Lance, Cara Curtis, & Jonathan Morgan. 2017. “Finding Spirits in Spirituality: What are We Measuring in Spirituality and Health Research?” Journal of Religion and Health 56(1), pp. 1-20.
Book Reviews
Review of Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck, by Kate Ward. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 42(1), Spring/Summer 2022, pp. 241-242,.
Review of Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, by Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd. Journal of Law and Religion 36(2), August 2021, pp. 436-439.
Review of Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters, Edited by Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, and Annie Hardison-Moody, Religious Studies Review 45(3), September 2019, p. 344.
Hybrid Publications (Academic/Practitioner)
“Issue Introduction: Turning the Wheel in Religious Practices and Practical Theology.” Practical Matters 12, 2019, pp. 1-3.
“Practicing Re-Imagination” (Interview with Vanessa Zoltan of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast), Practical Matters 12, 2019, pp. 113-120.
Co-Editor, Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices (Philadelphia: QuakerPress of Friends General Conference, 2010).