AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Convocation of Wise Women and Reflections on Lives of Learning – Luisa Del Giudice1. Bridging the Spiritual and the Political: My Scholarly Becoming – Edvige Giunta2. Becoming Storied – Christine Zinni3.Walking between the Worlds: Reflections on a Life of Scholarship – Sabina Magliocco4. Predestination? – Mary Ellen Brown5. Making Dead Bones Sing: Practicing Ethnography in the Italian Diaspora – Luisa Del Giudice6. Chicana Art Historian at the Crossroads – Charlene Villaseñor Black7. When I’m Tired of Walking, I FLY – Karen Guancione 8. Rising and Falling and Rising – Jennifer Guglielmo9. Repining Restlessness – Joanne Leslie 10. Finding My Female Zen Ancestors: Is There Such a Thing as a Woman? –Grace Schireson11. The Arc of Becoming – Willow Young12. Sacred Medicine: My Healing (R)Evolution – Annalisa Pastore13. The Ground I Stand On – Lauren VitielloList of ContributorsIndex