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Raúl E. Zegarra is the author of four books, multiple book chapters, academic articles, and translations. Dr. Zegarra received his PhD from The University of Chicago, and holds master’s degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. His research focuses on the relationship between faith and politics, with particular emphasis on how this relationship shapes the identity and commitments of minoritized groups. He is the Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and is part of the editorial team at the Hispanic Theological Initiative. Among his recent awards, Dr. Zegarra received the New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas (Fordham University, 2023), the Max Weber Kolleg Research Fellowship (University of Erfurt, 2022), and the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise (University of Heidelberg, 2021). He is also a regular op-ed contributor to the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. Dr. Zegarra recently finished his fourth book, A Revolutionary Faith, (Stanford UP, 2023) on liberation theology’s contributions to a theory of social justice that welcomes the role of religious commitments, and is currently working on a new book project—Questioning Latinidad—that attempts to problematize some of the assumptions of Latine theology regarding the relationship between race, gender, and religion. For more information, visit raulzegarra.com