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Durham, NC 27708-0760 (919) 684-4063 (office)
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PhD Duke University 1993
M.Div. Duke University 1989

Ethics, Animals, Feminism, Religion, Food Politics, Companion Animals
Professional Experience / Employment History

• Duke University Associate Professor of Ethics and Women's Studies, Women's Studies Program, 2003-present
• Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Women's Studies, Women's Studies Program, 1994-2000
• Princeton University Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, 1993-94

• Course Development Award from New Beginnings for Spring Animal Course, September 2005
• Grant Award from Duke Human Rights Initiative, September 2005
• New Beginnings: Race Culture and Medicine, provost, September 2004
• FIPSE Course development award, Kenan Ethics, September 2003
• Medical Ethics Class-Anne Lyerly, Duke Women's Studies, September 2003
• GELP course development award, GELP, May 2003
• Chapel Pathways Course Development Award, DU Chapel, April 2003
• Latino Studies course development award, Latino Studies, September 2002
• Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke Universtiy, 0 2000
• Arts and Science Research Council Research Grants, Duke University, 0 1998
• Faculty Development Award for Service-Learning, Duke University, 0 1998
• Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 0 1995
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton Univ., February 1993
• Young Scholars of Religion Program, Lilly Foundation, February 1993
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, Louisville Institute for Study of Protestantism and American Culture, 0 1992
• Dempster Fellowship, United Methodist Church, 0 1990
• Anne McDougall Scholarship, Duke Program in Women's Studies, 0 1988

• Organized Grad Student Panel on HASCompassionate Living Conference, October, 2007
• Planning Committee for National Council for Research on Women, July 1998

• Manuscript Reviewer for Theology and Sexuality, June 02, 2004 - present
• 3 papers for Feminist Studies plus several others, 8 December 2003
• Latino Studies Steering Committee, 1 August 2003
• Jean Fox O'Barr Distinguished Chair Search Committee, 1 May 2003
• Faculty Associate for Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, 1 August 2000
• Kenan Faculty Council, Kenan Ethics Program, 1 August 1998
• Women's studies Steering Committee, 1 August 1994
• Duke-UNC Bioethics Research Group, 1 August 1994
• Ara Wilson Tenure Committee, December 2006
• Joint Committee on Student Affairs, December 2006
• Educational Planning Committe on Ethics, Fall 2005
• Manuscript Reviewer, December 2005
• Kenan Assistant Director Search Committee, July 2003
• Tina Campt's Tenure Committee, January-May 2003
• Kathi Weeks Tenure Committee, July 2002
• Advisory Committee for the Program in the Study of Sexualities, 1996-2001
• Arts and Science Council, 1999-2001
• Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards, National Women's Studies Association, 1998-2000
• Advisory Committee for Faculty Forum, 1997-99
• Women's Studies Steering Committee, 1998
• Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 1995-96

1. M.K. Rudy, "Review of Brian Luke’s Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals forthcoming in Animals and Society, 2008.".   (Spring, Spring, 2008).
2. M.K. Rudy. "Entertaining the Unreasonable." World Knowledges Otherwise 2:na (Fall, Accepted, Fall, 2004): na.  [abs]
3. M.K. Rudy, "Review of Elizabeth Stuart's Gay and Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions with Critical Difference". Theology & Sexuality  (September, September, 2004).

• Dog Fighting and Animal Studies, September, 2007
• Food Politics, July, 2007
• Homosexuality and Ethics, University of Richmond, April 21, 2005
• Vocation and Feminism, Duke Chapel Pathways lecture, September 22, 2005
• Homosexuality in the UMC, Guilford College, October 02, 2004
• Beyond Being (Gay), University of Richmond, September 22, 2004
• HIV and Issues in Undergraduate Population, Duke Hospital ID clinic Grand Rounds, July 03, 2004
• Vocation and Feminism, Chapel Pathways project, February 21, 2004
• Down Low Panel, Mary Lou Williams Center, 1 December 2003
• Abortion and Ethics, Library/Special Conference, 1 November 2003
• Barefoot and Pregnant/Women in Ministry, Women's Center/ Chapel Pathways, 17 September 2003
• Latino Health Issues, DUMC, 25 March 2003
• Chicana Feminism, Women's Center Duke University, 28 February 2003
• 1. Parenting as (a) Queer, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1 March 2001
• 2. Subjectivity and Belief: Meditations on a Queer Christian Experience, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, 1 November 2000
• 3. Abortion and the Other(s), Plenary Lecture, Albion College, Albion, MI, 1 November 2000
• 4. Mapping the Moralities of Abortion, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 1 April 2000
• 5. Subjectivity and Belief, Plenary Lecture, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, 1 April 1999
• 6. Girl Deconstructed: Radical Feminism in Durham, NC, 1980-Present, Keynote Speaker, NC Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Conference, Asheville, NC, 1 March 1998
• 7. Philosophical Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas in the Natural Sciences, Welcome Address to Incoming Duke Graduate Students, Beaufort, NC, 1 August 1997