Carlos R. Piar, professor of religious studies at California State University, Long Beach, is the author of Jesus and Liberation: A Critical Analysis of the Christology of Latin American Liberation Theology (Peter Lang Publishing, 1995) and edited a primary-source reader, Readings in American Religious Diversity (2007). He has also written articles on virtue ethics. He specializes in Latin […]

Margaret McLean is a senior lecturer in the religious studies department at Santa Clara University in California and associate director and director of bioethics for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Her background is in life sciences and divinity; she has a doctorate in ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She teaches Christian ethics, […]

Kathleen Nadeau is an anthropology professor at  California State University in San Bernardino. She has written about liberation theology in the Philippines and Asian liberation theologies and Marxism. Nadeau says liberation theology has been integrated into the progressive wing of all the churches. Even if the movement is forced to move underground, it will carry […]

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is director of Organs Watch, a human rights documentation center that tracks the ethical and legal uses and sources of transplant organs globally. Scheper-Hughes is also a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edward Phillip Antonio is associate professor of Christian theology and social theory, associate dean of diversities and director of the Justice & Peace Program at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He wrote the article “Black Theology” in The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology.

Daniel Schipani, professor of pastoral care and counseling at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind., has written about liberation theology and Biblical education and an Anabaptist perspective on liberation theology.

Luis Rivera-Rodriguez, associate professor of theology and director of the Center for the Study of Latino/a Theology and Ministry at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, wrote the article on “Liberation Theology” in the Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Routledge, 2004).

Gerald Schlabach, Professor of Theology and Chair of the Department of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., has written about North American nonviolence and the Latin American liberation struggle, and on nonviolent action in Latin America.

Barbara A. Mulich is a palliative care nurse practitioner at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown.