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Sharon Varallo

Sharon Varallo

Professor of Communication Studies

Augustana College

Sharon Varallo is a professor of communication studies at Augustana, where she teaches intercultural communication. She is currently researching liberal arts college-in-prison programs in hopes of building bridges from the college campus to the prison campus.

Published Articles

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Conciliatory and Queer: The Radical Love of Lutheran Higher Education

Kiki Kosnick, Sharon Varallo

No. 50 · Fall 2019

Kosnick and Varallo reflect in conversation on how Augustana’s Five Faith Commitments and its conciliatory ecumenical roots in the Augsburg Confession have given them — a non-binary queer first-generation faculty member and a twenty-one-year veteran — the “street cred” to act on radical love, build bridges to imprisoned and non-binary communities, and discover that Augustana is welcoming not despite the fact that it is Lutheran, but because of it.

Sharon Varallo

Published Articles

Conciliatory and Queer: The Radical Love of Lutheran Higher Education