In Memoriam, Lucinda Joy Peach

Our esteemed colleague Lucinda Joy Peach died July 25, 2008, of sudden complications following treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer. She was 52.

She was an internationally respected scholar with numerous articles and chapters on gender and violence, the ethics of war, and women's human rights, including the trafficking of women sex-workers as a human rights violation. She is the author of Legislating Morality: Religious Identity and Moral Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002), and the editor of Women and World Religions (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Women in Culture: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers 1998). Her work was recognized with prominent grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute of International Education Fulbright program, which supported her ongoing research.
 
Her colleagues in Philosophy and Religion will remember her invaluable contributions to teaching, scholarship, and service at all levels and her legacy as a builder of the Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs Program and the new major in Religious Studies. We honor her leadership, collegiality, commitment, and the courage and determination with which she faced her illness. We will miss her friendship, kindness, and indefatigable spirit.

Tributes to Lucinda Peach may be sent to LPeachmemorial@aol.com. These will be shared with her family. A memorial service will take place at American University after the summer break.