Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is Professor of History at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. A specialist in church history and reform, he is the author of ten books, including the companion volumes Renewing Christianity and The General Councils along with 101 Questions and Answers on Popes and the Papacy. His latest book is Ageless Wisdom: Lifetime Lessons from the Bible and his current project is a history of humility as the lost virtue, which is being supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant in 2021. His articles have appeared in academic journals in the United States and Europe; he has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the NJ Council for the Humanities. In Summer 2019, he was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Bellitto also serves as series Editor in Chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and Academic Editor at Large for Paulist Press. He offers about 30 public lectures each year; he is a member of the Public Scholar Speakers Bureau of the NJ Council for the Humanities and has taped audio courses for Now You Know Media/Learn 25. A media commentator on church history and contemporary Catholicism, he appears frequently in print, on radio, and television.

Ulrike (Uli) Guthrie has been editing academic books, dissertations, articles, and papers in religion for 36 years, first for publishing houses like Cambridge University Press and Abingdon Press, and now for individual authors worldwide. She has been working with the HTI since its inception in 1997. Her goal is to help you to make your writing sing and to communicate your ideas clearly to a particular audience. If you stay with HTI, she will also likely accompany you all the way through your dissertation writing. Should you notice dirt under her fingernails, it’s because when not editing, she’s working in her woods, streams, and gardens in Maine, kayaking on nearby lakes, or painting.

Dr. Carmen Nanko-Fernández is Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry and the director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. A Latinx theologian, her publications include the book Theologizing en Espanglish (Orbis, 2010) and numerous book chapters, journal articles, and digital media on Latinx theologies, Catholic social teaching, im/migration, sport and theology–with attention to béisbol/baseball. In 2018, Nanko-Fernández created and is an author with Theology en la Plaza for the National Catholic Reporter a monthly column featuring public theology done latinamente. She is currently completing the book ¿El Santo? Baseball and the Canonization of Roberto Clemente with the Sport and Religion series of Mercer University Press.  Nanko-Fernández has presented in a variety of academic and pastoral venues including the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. A past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS), she received their Virgilio Elizondo Award in 2012 for “distinguished achievement in theology.” Her scholarship and work in theological education, in ministry, in professional associations, and on editorial boards reflects an ongoing commitment to agency, access, and justice particularly for communities too often underrepresented, marginalized and/or minoritized in the academy, the Catholic church, and in publication/media. She is the creator and, with Miguel Díaz and Gary Riebe-Estrella, co-editor of the new multi-volume series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente (Orbis).

Dr. Melissa Pagán is a decolonial feminist ethicist. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion, Ethics, and Society from Emory University. Her current research project provides a feminist decolonial and critical spatial appraisal of the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching to ascertain whether, and to what extent the coloniality of knowledge, coloniality of being, and coloniality of gender undergird and therefore undermine its teachings on social justice. Dr. Pagán’s areas of expertise and research include feminist social ethics, critical geographies, postcolonial and decolonial theories and theologies, and Latinx theologies. For the academic year 2021-2022, Dr. Pagán was the recipient of a First Book Grant for Scholars of Color from the Louisville Institute. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS), the Board of Directors for the Web Branch of Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., is a Co-Convener of the Latinx Consultation of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). She is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Religious Studies at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles.

Rev. Joanne Rodríguez is the Executive Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative.  She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, since 2011. Prior to her calling to Seminary, Joanne worked in the banking industry for a number of years as Assistant Vice President.