IPED Fall 2021 Lecture Series: Liberation Theology and Development

Join us as Michael E. Lee, Ph.D., discusses how liberation theology has impacted the developing world.

Lee is a theology professor and director of the Francis & Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University, where he is also affiliated with the Latin American and Latinx Studies Institute. Born in Miami of Puerto Rican parents, he holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame.

Lee joined the Fordham faculty in 2004 and teaches courses in Roman Catholic theology, liberation theologies, Latin American and Latinx theologies, Christology, and spirituality. He has served as president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS) and on the governing board of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). His books include Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero (a Catholic Press Award winner), Ignacio Ellacuría: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation, and Bearing the Weight of Salvation: The Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacuría (winner of the 2010 Hispanic Theological Initiative Book Prize).