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Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 314, Boston, MA, 02215 E-Mail: roldá[email protected] [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION Th.D., Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA, 2005 M. Div., New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2000 B. A., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Political Science, 1993 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Administrative) SEPTEMBER 2017-PRESENT Boston University Position: Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Boston University School of Theology. 11 JULY 2016-AUGUST 2017 Boston University Position: Director of Research & Director of Religion Fellows Program, Boston University School of Theology. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Faculty Appointments) 5 MAY 2015-PRESENT Boston University Position: Associate Professor of the History of Christianity (with tenure), Boston University School of Theology. Boston, Massachusetts. JULY 2011-4 MAY 2015 Boston University Position: Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University School of Theology. Boston, Massachusetts. AUGUST 2007 – MAY 2011 Baylor University Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D.- 1 - Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 314, Boston, MA, 02215 E-Mail: roldá[email protected] [email protected] Position: Assistant Professor of Historical Studies. Member of the Graduate Faculty from May 2008 to May 2011. Department of Religion, College of Arts and Sciences, Baylor University. Waco, Texas. AUGUST 2004 – AUGUST 2007 Baylor University Position: Assistant Professor of Historical Theology. George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. AUGUST 2003- MAY 15 2004 Claflin University Position: Lilly Teaching Fellow in Religion and Philosophy. Department of Religion and Philosophy, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina. AWARDS • Teaching Excellence Award, Boston University School of Theology Student Association and 2019 Graduating Class (May 2019) • Harold J. Grimm Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (Best Reformation Studies Article, 2015) DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PRESENTATIONS • Rady Roldán-Figueroa (June 30, 2020), facilitator, “COVID-19 Religion and Spiritual Practice,” in COVID-19, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: An Online Series, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University (video recording available at https://www.bu.edu/diversity/2020/07/01/covid-19-diversity-equity-inclusion-an- online-series/) • Rady Roldán-Figueroa (June 24, 2020), organizer and facilitator, “A Clergy Conversation on Strategies for Change in Race Relations,” in A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University (video recording available at https://www.bu.edu/diversity/2020/07/23/a- day-of-collective-engagement-racism-and-antiracism-our-realities-and-our-roles/) Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D.- 2 - Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 314, Boston, MA, 02215 E-Mail: roldá[email protected] [email protected] • Rady Roldán-Figueroa (June 24, 2020), panelist, “A Conversation with Diversity & Inclusion Practitioners,” in A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University (video recording available at https://www.bu.edu/diversity/2020/07/23/a-day-of-collective- engagement-racism-and-antiracism-our-realities-and-our-roles/) PUBLICATIONS Edited Volumes in Progress (2) • Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Orique, The Transatlantic Bartolomé de las Casas: Lascasian Heritage, Indigenous Cultures, Scholastic Thought, and Historical Reception. Under contract with Brill; 22 chapters have been edited; to be submitted April 1st , 2021 for anonymous peer-review. • David Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, eds., The Dominicans: Participants, Witnesses, and Critics of the Colonization of Latin America, under contract with Routledge; to be submitted August 1st, 2021 for anonymous peer-review Book Chapters in Progress (2) • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Bartolomé de las Casas and the 18th Century Anglo-American Encyclopedists,” in Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Orique, The Transatlantic Bartolomé de las Casas… • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Bartolomé de las Casas and the Forced Conversion of Jews: A Source for his Advocacy on Behalf of Amerindians,” in David Orique, Rady Roldán- Figueroa, and Cynthia Folquer, eds., The Dominicans: Participants, Witnesses, and Critics… Published Monographs (2): • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569), Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 150 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010). • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, The Martyrs of Japan: Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (1597–1700) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021). Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D.- 3 - Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 314, Boston, MA, 02215 E-Mail: roldá[email protected] [email protected] Published Edited Volumes and Academic Journal Special Issues (Total 5): • David T. Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, eds., Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019). • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, ed., Early Modern Theologies of Race in the Age of European Expansion, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity 4/2 (2017). • C. Douglas Weaver and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology, 2nd rev. ed. (Baylor University Press, 2017). • William Pitts and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, eds., Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys: Pamphlets on Religion, Early English Baptist Texts (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2017). • C. Douglas Weaver, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, and Brandon Frick, Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology (Baylor University Press, 2012). Published Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals (12): • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Spiritualité, Spirituality, and Espiritualidad: A Lexicographical Approach to the Conceptual History of the Modern Notion of Spirituality,” Church History and Religious Culture vol. 101, no. 4 (2021). • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “ ‘βαπτίζω Signifies to Dip or to Wash, but Never to Sprinkle’: London Baptists and Dipping as the Sign of Lay Supremacy, 1641–1645,” Church History and Religious Culture 99 (2019): 1–32. • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Religious Literature and its Institutional Contexts: Prelude to the Study of Spanish Accounts of Christian Martyrdom in Tokugawa Japan,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History (Special Issue: “The Global Impact of the Reformations: Long-Term Influences and Contemporary Ramifications” / “Die Weltwirkungen der Reformation: Zeitgenössische und langfristige Folgen der religiösen Reformbewegungen des 16. Jahrhunderts”), 108 (2017): 153–161. • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Literacy, Spirituality of Reading, and Catholic Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Spain,” Journal of Early Modern Christianity 2/2 (2015): 159–188. Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D.- 4 - Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Th.D. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 314, Boston, MA, 02215 E-Mail: roldá[email protected] [email protected] • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Martín de Roa, S.J. (1559–1637) and the Consolidation of Catholic Literary Culture in Spain,” European History Quarterly 45.1 (2015): 5–33 [Lead Article]. The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference recognized this article with the Harold J. Grimm Prize. The prizes is “named for Professor Harold J. Grimm of Indiana and Ohio State Universities, author and scholar, pioneer in American Reformation Studies, one of the founders of the Society for Reformation Research, editor of the Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, as well as doctoral advisor and friend of many scholars, is awarded annually by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference for the best article published during the previous year which reflects and sustains Grimm's lifelong search for a broad understanding of the Reformation as a fundamentally religious phenomenon which permeated the whole civilization of Europe in the Reformation Era.” • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Tomas Carrascón, Anti-Roman Catholic Propaganda, and the Circulation of Ideas in Jacobean England,” History of European Ideas, iFirst (2012), 1–38; vol. 39, no. 2 (2013): 169–206. • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Father Luis Piñeiro, S.J., the Tridentine Economy of Relics, and the Defense of the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in Tokugawa Japan,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 101 (2010): 207–230. • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Religious Propaganda and Textual Hybridity in Tomás Carrascón's 1623 Spanish Translation of the Jacobean Book of Common Prayer,” The Seventeenth Century 25.1 (2010): 49–74. • Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “ ‘Espirituación’: Juan de Ávila’s Doctrine of Union with the Holy Spirit,”
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