USD Magazine Fall 2007

USD MAGAZINE 6 AROUND THE PARK T o properly trace the life path of Father Bill Headley, C.S.Sp., Ph.D., it would be best to have a globe at hand. The wide-ranging career of the found- ing dean of USD’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies has led him to work in more than 80 coun- tries toward peace and justice, always seeking collaboration and practical solutions to complicated by Julene Snyder [ p e a c e w o r k ]

ON A GLOBAL SCALE T h e e p i c j o u r n e y o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y ’ s f o u n d i n g d e a n o f P e a c e S t u d i e s i s o n l y j u s t b e g i n n i n g

issues. It’s been a journey with a decidedly circuitous route. Born in Philadelphia, Headley felt called to the priesthood as a high school seminarian; after ordi- nation, he hoped to be assigned to Africa. “But I ended up in a parish in Charleston, South Carolina,” he recalls. “It was 1964, an important moment in the desegregation era. Charleston is,

of course, in the deep South, and the city had great racial tension. It was early in my priesthood, and the justice work in Charleston was formative.” After earning a number of grad- uate degrees — including a pair of master’s degrees in counseling and sociology and a doctorate from NewYork University in sociol- ogy —Headley again yearned to

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