Carolyne Call

[Personal website: www.spiirtuallyhealthydivorce.com]

I was born in beautiful Ithaca, New York and grew up there, attending Cornell University and graduating with a BS in Rural Sociology in 1986. During the summer prior to my senior year I experienced a call to the ministry while working on my extended family's farm in western New York State. During 1986-87 I served as a seminary intern at the Ladue Chapel Presbyterian church in Saint Louis, MO. Then in the fall of 1987 I returned to New York and enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School for the next three years. I graduated in 1990 with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) with a concentration in Systematic Theology. After graduation from CRDS I traveled down to New Jersey to begin a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1994 I left Princeton to go into parish ministry, serving a historic protestant church on the New Jersey shore for five years (Old First Church, Middletown, NJ, est. 1688). I was ordained by the United Church of Christ (UCC) in November of 1994. In 1997 I returned home to Ithaca to pursue a MS in Development Sociology at Cornell ('00) and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology ('04). In 2002 I moved west to join my new husband (Randall Zachman, theology faculty at Univeristy of Notre Dame) in South Bend and began teaching for Saint Mary's College in the Psychology department that fall. The following year I was awarded a CWIL Fellowship in Psychology and taught for the 2003-2004 year in that department. Now the Director of the Office for Civic and Social Engagement, I still teach psychology - now for the Education Department. My research interests/pursuits in recent years have focused on the connection between spirituality and teaching, the psychology and spirituality of forgiveness, and developing authentic leadership. I'm also active with leading workshops on a variety of topics and preaching at area churches.