De La Torre - Ethics : a liberative approach

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Our colleagues at the Society of Christian Ethics

Patrick S. Cheng is associate professor of historical and systematic theology at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology and From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ. Cheng holds a PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Yale College. He is an ordained MCC minister and writes for the Huffington Post.

Ezra Chitando (Zimbabwean) serves as theology consultant on HIV and AIDS for the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA), a program of the World Council of Churches (WCC). He is also professor of history and phenomenology of religion at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published widely on theology and HIV, and method and theory in the study of religion.

Deborah Beth Creamer is dean for academic affairs and director of library and information services at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. She is a founding member and past chair of the Religion and Disability Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion and is the author of Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Alejandro Crosthwaite (Mexican) is associate professor of Catholic social teaching and social, political and cultural ethics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy. He is also the director of the Ethical Leadership International Program (http://sites.google.com/site/fassleadership program). He is the author of several lectures and articles on the social and political thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Latin American and Latino/a social ethics, and media studies.

Keri L. Day is assistant professor of theological and social ethics and director of black church studies at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She has published several book essays and articles on womanism, theology, and economics. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America.

Miguel A. De La Torre (Cuban) is a scholar-activist and ordained minister. Since obtaining his doctorate in 1999, he has published over twenty-five books, five of which have won national awards. He presently serves as professor of social ethics and Latino/a studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He was elected the 2012 president of the Society of Christian Ethics. Additionally, he is the editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion (www.raceandreligion.com).

Mark Freeland (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) is an activist and scholar. He is currently ABD in the joint PhD program at the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology, where his concentration is in religion and social change. He also serves as the president of the Four Winds American Indian Council, a community center for urban American Indians in Denver, Colorado.

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza (una Tejana y queermeztiz@) is currently finishing a PhD in philosophical ethics; situating her work in the field of queerethics. Her research interests reside in interrogating the mestizaje body, particularly its materiality. She uses critical spatiality, queer theories, and Gloria Anzaldas thought and theories to conceive a more robust notion of bodies, mestizaje, race, and the epistemological importance of the mestiz@s moral agency.

Keun-joo Christine Pae is assistant professor of ethics/Christian ethics in the Department of Religion, Denison University (Granville, OH). As a Christian feminist ethicist, she teaches and researches social ethics, sexual ethics, feminist interfaith peacemaking, transnationalized militarism, and Asian liberation theologies. She has presented and published numerous articles related to race, gender, militarism, and peacemaking. As a co-convener, she serves the Asian American Ethics Working Group of the Society of Christian Ethics (20112013).

Rubn Rosario Rodrguez, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. His book, Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective (New York University Press, 2008), won the 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for Theology. Dr. Rosario, an ordained Presbyterian minister, is currently working on a second book, which examines martyrdom as a theological and ethical virtue in the context of empire.

Laura Stivers is associate professor of social ethics and director of the graduate humanities program at Dominican University of California. She is the author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches; coauthor of Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach; and coeditor of Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World. She was also the 2010 president of the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion and is a past board member of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Sharon M. Tan is McVay Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where she also teaches in religious studies and comparative ethics. She was born into a Chinese family in Malaysia, and came to the United States to attend college. Both her JD and her PhD are from Emory University. She identifies as both Asian in America and Asian American.

Michelle Tooley is Eli Lilly Professor of Religion at Berea College. Her field of specialization in the academic world is in the area of religion, social ethics, and public policy, with special attention to peacemaking and economic justice. Her most current research focuses on the role of Christian religious communities in peacemaking. She also researches the interrelationship between Christianity, social ethics, and public policy, particularly womens poverty and welfare reform.

Thelathia Nikki Young is visiting assistant professor of womens and gender studies at Bucknell University. She received her PhD in Christian social ethics in 2011 from Emory Universitys Graduate Division of Religion. For her research in ethics, race, gender, and sexuality, Nikki received doctoral and dissertation fellowships from the Fund for Theological Education and a dissertation scholarship from the Human Rights Campaign. Nikki is currently working on her manuscript,