HTI Alumni

Michelle  González Maldonado

Michelle González Maldonado

Provost, Lebanon Valley College

Field of Study: Systematic Theology 

Dr. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado currently serves as Provost at Lebanon Valley College. Prior to joining LVC, she held the position of Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, as well as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Scranton. She spent 14 years at the University of Miami, where she was a Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Provost. Dr. Maldonado is the author of eight books, including Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity (University Press of Florida, 2006), A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas: Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide (NYU Press, 2014), and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism (co-authored with Aman De Sondy and William S. Green, Bloomsbury, 2020). She is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religion, published in 2024.