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About Pamela Brubaker

Pamela Brubaker is Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University, where she teaches courses in Christian ethics and gender studies. Pam co-chairs the Sweatshop Action Committee of Progressive Christians Uniting, a Los Angeles based organization. Pam recently served a three-year term as co-chair of the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion. She is currently serving on the Board of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Pam received a B.A. in sociology from Roosevelt University in Chicago, a M.A. from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, and a Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to moving to California in 1994, she taught in the religious studies department at Cleveland State University. For the past three decades, she has facilitated workshops on various social justice issues for local congregations, and regional and national events.

Pam is particularly concerned about the interstructuring of gender, race/ethnicity and class in systems of domination and exploitation and ways people of faith can help untangle these webs of oppression. Her books include Globalization at what Price? Economic Change and Daily Life, (Pilgrim Press, 2001), Welfare Policy: [feminist critiques] (Pilgrim Press, 1999), co-edited with Elizabeth M. Bounds and Mary E. Hobgood, and Women Don’t Count: The Challenge of Women’s Poverty to Christian Ethics (1994). She also contributed a chapter to Religion and Economic Justice, edited by Michael Zweig (Temple University Press, 1991). She has published articles in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Journal of Poverty, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and The Ecumenist. Pam presented papers on Christian faith and economic justice for the first two encounters between the World Council of Churches, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank (February and October, 2003).