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recipient of many large grants, she has been a senior advisor to several national projects, including the
Valparaiso Project in the Education and Formation of Faith, the Catholic-Jewish Colloquium, Educating for Religious Particularism and Pluralism, and the ATS Project on Christian Hospitality and Interreligious Education.
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Education Press in 1980. In addition to numerous articles, chapters, and public lectures she became deeply involved with the
Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education. That association led to her ground-breaking scholarly collaboration with Dr. Sara Lee in Christian-Jewish learning and dialogue.
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Boys began her research in the field of religious education by engaging historical critical biblical scholarship, which was only then beginning to have an impact in the
Catholic context due to Vatican II. Her first book, Biblical Interpretation in Religious Education, was published by the Religious
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Religion and Education at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, a degree she completed in 1975. Following that degree she entered their EdD program, and in 1978 she successfully defended
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College, moving fluidly through the process from instructor to full professor. While there she wrote voluminously, garnering a reputation as the key Catholic scholar in the field of religious education who was engaging issues of Jewish/Christian
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the Shevet Achim Award in 2014 from the
Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations. She has honorary doctorates from four institutions, and has given endowed lectures at multiple colleges and universities, including the 1997 Madeleva Lecture at
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Theological Seminary, as the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology, and in July 2013 she was installed as Dean of Academic Affairs at Union. She continues to hold both of these positions.
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