Writings on Teaching, Administration, and Scholarship from a Latine Perspective

Publication Description

While the first volume in the Theological Education ¡Latinamente! Series lays the theoretical and historical groundwork for reconceptualizing Latinidad within the context of theological education, this second volume explores how one towering figure—the Rev. Dr. Daisy L. Machado—pursued scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative innovations within this sector. After years as a social worker, minister, and public school teacher, Daisy L. Machado entered theological education with a unique vantage point and acumen for innovation. As a scholar her work on borderlands weaved church history, borderland studies, theology, and ethics to generate new understandings not only of the U.S.-Mexico Border but of constructions of power and the nation itself. As a teacher her centering of communities of color and embrace of immersive teaching led her to innovative pedagogical institutions at multiple institutions. As an administrator who served as Dean of two institutions as well as founding Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative and Executive Director of the Hispanic Scholars Program, she has put vision to action and grown the organization always with an eye toward community care. Pushing against the traditional festschrift model, the essays in this volume critically explore how Machado innovated in theological education and what lessons it yields for the next generation of theological leaders.

Expected Publication Date: 2028

Series and Volume Editor 

Jorge Juan Rodríguez V

Deputy Executive Director

Hispanic Scholars Program

Contributors

Tim Van Meter

Associate Professor in the Alford Chair of Christian Education and Youth Ministry

Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Cristian De La Rosa

Associate Dean for Students and Community Life; Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theological and Practice

Boston University School of Theology

Eduardo Fernandez

Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry

Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University

Francisco Lozada, Jr. 

Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty; Professor of New Testament Studies

Christian Theological Seminary

Felipe Hinojosa

John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America and Professor of History

Baylor University

María Pilar Aquino

Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies

University of San Diego

Cláudio Carvalhaes

Professor of Worship and Practical Theology

Union Theological Seminary 

Angela Tarango 

Professor of Religion

Trinity University

Janay Salcedo-Kinsey

Daisy L. Machado 

Executive Director

Hispanic Scholars Program