Slattery Center Team

Executive Director

Sarah Kenehan, Ph.D., earned her bachelor’s degree in biology and philosophy from Scranton in 2002 as a member of the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program.  She earned her master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Tennessee, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Graz in Austria.

As a scholar, Dr. Kenehan has studied extensively the works of John Rawls, an American moral and political philosopher in the liberal tradition, especially in relationship to climate justice. She has published three books on climate justice: “Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action” (Rowman Littlefield International, 2021); “Climate Justice and Feasibility: Principles of Justice and Real-World Climate Politics” (Rowman Littlefield International, 2021); and “Food, Environment, and Climate: Justice at the Intersections” (Rowman Littlefield International, 2018). She has likewise published numerous articles in academic journals, contributed to book chapters, and presented at more than 30 international, national and regional conferences and meetings.

Faculty Advisory Board

Duane Armitage, Ph.D. (philosophy)
Duane Armitage received his Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research (2012). He is the author of Heidegger's Pauline and Lutheran Roots (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Heidegger and the Death of God (Palgrave Pivot, 2017), and Philosophy's Violent Sacred (Michigan State University Press, 2021). 
 
Jeh-Hyun Cho, Ph.D. (accounting)
Before coming to Scranton, Dr. Cho was an accounting instructor at Arizona State university in Tempe and a teaching assistant at Seoul National University.  He also held non-academic positions in accounting and finance in South Korea. Dr. Cho received his doctorate in accountancy from Arizona State university, a master's degree in business administration from Seoul National University, a bachelor's degree in accountacy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 
 
Dr. Patrick Clark, Ph.D. (theology/religious studies)
Dr. Clark earned his A.B. from Duke University, his M.A. from Boston College and his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.  Before joining the University of Scranton faculty in 2010, he taught at the University of Notre Dame as a visiting assistant professor and undergraduate instructor. He also taught theology at Father Matignon High School in Somerville, Massachusetts. Dr. Clark's teaching and research involves moral theology, Catholic social teaching, and Aquinas.
 
 
Christopher Gillett, Ph.D. (history)
Christopher Gillett is Assistant Professor of the History of Britain and Its Empire [at The University of Scranton]. His research concerns Catholic political thought and activism during the mid-seventeenth-century political crises in the British world. His essay on “Political Theology” will appear in the forthcoming Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism and his chapter “Probabilism, Pluralism, and Papalism: Jesuit Allegiance Politics in the British Atlantic and Continental Europe, 1644–50,” appeared in James Kelly and Hannah Thomas’s edited collection, Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange Between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580 – c. 1773: ‘The World is Our House’? (Brill, 2019). He has held a number of competitively awarded fellowships, including a faculty fellowship at the Slattery Center, an NEH Summer Stipend, and a Thoits Visiting Fellowship at the Durham Residential Research Library. In Spring 2022 he was the Ark and Dove Scholar in Residence at Historic St. Mary’s City in Maryland.
 
 
Susan C. Méndez, Ph.D. (English and theater)
Originally from Queens, NY, Dr. Susan C. Méndez is a graduate of both Catholic education (K-12 and MA) and secular/public education (BA and doctorate). She teaches multi-ethnic American literature at The University of Scranton. Many of her courses support the Women’s & Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, and Peace & Justice Studies Programs here at the University. She has served as the chair of the English & Theatre department and the former Latin American & Women’s Studies department and as director of the Latin American Studies Program. Her research primarily addresses feminist discourse and Latinx literary texts, namely novels, and has appeared in the following peer-reviewed journals: Ciberletras: Revista de Crítica Literaria y de Cultura; Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures; Latin American Literary Review; Label Me Latina/o; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal; Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura; Confluencia: Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura; Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies; Chicana/Latina Studies; Afro-Hispanic Review; and MaComère: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. In the past, Méndez’s research focused on the cultural significance of African diaspora spiritual practices in Latinx literature. Now, her research interests entail realizing the connection between Latinx philosophy and Latinx literature, specifically the relationship between love and social justice.
 
Julie Murphy, Ph.D., RN (nursing)
 
El-Habib K. Zanzana, Ph.D. (world languages and culture)
Dr. Zanzana joined the University of Scranton faculty in 1985.  He earned his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University.  Dr. Zanzana specializes in French and Spanish language and culture.