RADFORD, Va., Oct. 2 -- Radford University issued the following news release:

Geoffrey Pollick, associate professor of religious studies and chair of Radford University's Department of Philosophy and Religion.

Geoffrey Pollick, an associate professor of religious studies and chair of Radford University's Department of Philosophy and Religion, recently appeared on the "With Good Reason" public radio program to discuss his research on women's religious leadership in U.S. history.

Pollick's interview focuses on Annis Ford Eastman, a 19th-century congregational minister and suffrage activist who was among the first women ordained in a mainstream American Protestant denomination.

"I trace how debates over women's religious leadership, from t...