List of Contributors

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández is Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her scholarship includes the book Theologizing en Espanglish as well as numerous chapters, scholarly and pastoral articles, presentations, and digital media on Latin@´ theologies, theological education, im/migration, lo popular, sport, and theology-with particular focus on béisbol/baseball and Pope Francis on sports. Nanko-Fernández is the founding coeditor of the multivolume series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente (Fordham University Press), and is part of the 1.5 generation of Latin@´ theologians.

Daisy L. Machado is professor emerita of the history of Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, where she also served as Academic Dean. She continues her work as the Executive Director of the Hispanic Summer Program, which recently received a $1.8 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. A native of Cuba, she was raised in New York City, where she quickly learned about the power of the "historical imagination" she writes about. She is the author of numerous articles and the editor of two anthologies, and her research, writing, and teaching for over twenty-five years has focused on the US borderlands, that heterotopia where life for the Latinx community is one of struggle but also of resilience, hope, and a deep abiding faith.

Rubén Rosario-Rodríguez is the Clarence Louis and Helen Steber Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. His teaching and research interests range from comparative religious ethics to theological anthropology, to liberation and political theologies; his most recent publications include Christian Martyrdom and Political Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Dogmatics After Babel (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018) and its forthcoming sequel, Theological Fragments: Confessing What We Know and Cannot Know About an Infinite God (Westminster John Knox Press, 2023); and he is editor of the T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019).

José R. Irizarry served as the first Latinx president of the Religious Education Association of the USA and Canada, was appointed to the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches, and also serves on the Committee on Theological Education by the Presbyterian Church (USA). His major academic interests are international and intercultural relations, justice theory, critical pedagogy, aesthetics of space, and religious teratology. Dr. Irizarry now serves as the 10th President of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Melissa Guzmán-García is an Associate professor of Latina/o Studies at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses on racism, juvenile justice, and the experiences of communities of color who are impacted by carceral violence. Her research broadly examines how racialized carceral control operates through local religious organizations across Central and Northern California, and specifically how state power becomes entrenched in the institutional missions and embodied religious practices of local religious organizations. Her research has appeared across various journals including: International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Punishment and Society. Currently, she is working on her first book manuscript under contract with New York University Press, tentatively titled The Spirit of Carcerality: Latinx Evangelicals and Carceral Control in the 21st Century.

Efrain Agosto, Ph.D., is Visiting Professor of Latinx Studies and Religion at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Formerly, he was Professor of New Testament Studies at New York Theological Seminary, New York City (2011-2021) and Professor of New Testament and Director of the Programa de Ministerios Hispanos at Hartford Seminary (now Hartford International University for Religion and Peace) in Hartford, Connecticut (1995-2011). He is the author of Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul (Chalice Press, 2005); Corintios, a Spanish-language commentary on 1-2 Corinthians (Fortress Press, 2008); Preaching in the Interim: Transitional Leadership in the Latino/a Church (Judson Press, 2018); and coeditor with Jacqueline Hidalgo of Latinxs, the Bible and Migration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Jean-Pierre Ruiz is on the faculty of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University, New York, where he is also a senior research fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society. He earned his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and his 2011 book, Readings from the Edges: The Bible and People on the Move, received a Catholic Press Association award. His 2021 book, Revelation in the Vernacular, received an excellence in publishing (first place) award in theology from the Association of Catholic Publishers. A diasporic Puerto Rican, his research interests include the prophets and the Apocalypse of John, as well as the Bible and colonialism.

Sixto J. García earned his doctorate in systematic and philosophical theology at the University of Notre Dame (1986). A layman, he taught theology for many years at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, in Florida. He recently retired, and is completing a monograph on "faith and grace in Francisco de Vitoria's theology."

Neomi De Anda is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Dayton Department of Religious Studies. She teaches courses in religion, languages and cultures, Latinx and Latin American studies, race and ethnic studies, and women and gender studies. She is a Human Rights Center Research Associate. Dr. De Anda has scholarly presentations, publications and exhibitions on her research interests of LatinoXa Christology; theology and breast milk; chisme; the intersection of race and migrations; and a border theology at the intersections of the environment, migrations, labor, and women. She is the recipient of the 2021 University of Dayton Award for Faculty Teaching; the 2021 University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award for faculty; and the First Book Prize for Minority Scholars from the Louisville Institute. She is a past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS).

Néstor Medina is a Latino-Canadian theologian. He is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics and Culture at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. He engages the field of ethics from contextual, liberationist, intercultural, and Post- and Decolonial perspectives. He studies the intersections between people's cultures, histories, ethnoracial relations, and forms of knowledge in religious and theoethical tradition. In addition to published articles and three coedited volumes, he is also the author of Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping "Race," Culture, and Faith in Latina/o/x Catholicism (Orbis 2008) and Christianity, Empire and the Spirit (Brill 2018).

Yara González-Justiniano is professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is the author of Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica. Her educational journey of interdisciplinarity informs the ways in which she approaches theological studies' scholarship and teaching.

Roberto S. Goizueta is the Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Boston College. Dr. Goizueta is a former President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States. The National Catholic Reporter named him one of the ten most influential US Latino/a educators, pastors, and theologians. He has published six books and over a hundred scholarly articles. His book Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment (Orbis, 1995) was named one of the "Fifty Foundational Books in Race, Ethnicity, and Religion" by the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion.

Luis G. Pedraja is the sixth president of Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a theologian, philosopher, author, scholar, and educator, who is an influential contributor to the development of Latinoax theology. He is also noted for his work in process philosophy and postmodernism, as well as his work in higher education, where he has held multiple leadership and faculty positions. He has published several books and multiple articles exploring how understanding language and culture can provide unique theological insights, as well as promote intercultural dialogue and tolerance. Among his contributions are Teología: An Introduction to Hispanic Theology and Jesus is My Uncle: Christology from a Hispanic Perspective.

María Teresa Dávila, associate professor and chair of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College (Massachusetts), is a Roman Catholic laywoman. Her areas of study include racial and migrant justice, public and political theology, liberation ethics, the option for the poor, and Catholic social teaching.

Antonio (Tony) Eduardo Alonso is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Candler School of Theology at Emory University where he also serves as the inaugural Director of Catholic Studies. He is a recipient of the Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for new scholars for the best academic essay in the field of...