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

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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/)

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• 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).

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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.

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• 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,” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 2–3 (2005): 65–96 [Date Issued: May 2007].

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “La relación de 1625 por Francisco Crespo sobre los mártires de Japón: Introducción, edición y comentarios,” Encuentros en Catay 20 (2006): 64–85. [Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan] [Date of Issue: 2007]

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “ ‘Justified Without the Works of the Law’: Casiodoro de Reina on Romans 3:28,” in The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe, ed., Wim Janse and Barbara Pitkin, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis/Dutch Review of Church History 85 (2005): 205–224. [Year Issued: 2006]

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• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Filius Perditionis: The Propagandistic use of a Biblical Motif in Spanish Evangelical Biblical Translations of the Sixteenth Century.” Sixteenth Century Journal 4 (2006): 1027-1055.

Chapters in Peer-reviewed Collections (These collections went through formal double-blind peer review) (6):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Roman Catholic Exegesis from the Spirituali to the Jesuits,” Section III: The Development of Reformation Biblical Hermeneutics, in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, ed. Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman Selderhuis (Oxford University Press, 2021).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Bartolomé de las Casas, his Theory of the Power of Bishops, and the Early Transatlantic Episcopacy,” in David Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Bartolomé de Las Casas: History, Philosophy, & Theology in the Age of European Expansion (Brill, 2018): 99–126.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “The Mystical Theology of Luis de la Puente (1554-1624),” in Brill's Companion to Jesuit Mystical Spirituality, ed. Robert Maryks (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), 54–76.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain,” in Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus, ed. Robert A. Maryks (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), 156–174.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Ignatius of Loyola and Juan de Ávila on the Ascetic Life of the Laity,” in Companion to Ignatius of Loyola: Life, Writings, Spirituality, ed. Robert A. Maryks (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014), 159–178.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Antonio del Corro and Paul as the Herald of the Gospel of Universal Redemption,” in Paul in the Reformation, ed., R. Ward Holder (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009), 389–425.

Chapters in Peer-reviewed Proceedings (These collections went through formal peer review) (2):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Translation, Guided Reading, and Anti-Roman Catholic Propaganda in the Reina-Valera Bible (1602): The Rendering of Deuteronomy

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23,17[18],” in Infant Milk or Hardy Nourishment? The Bible for Lay People and Theologians in the Early Modern Period, ed. W. François and A. A. den Hollander, (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 221) (Louvain: Peeters Publishers, 2009), 411–438.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Reina’s Vision of a Truly Reformed Ministry: A Reconstruction,” in Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800, ed., M. Lamberigts and A. A. den Hollander, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 198 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006), 159–181.

Book Chapters (7):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “The Institutional Inner Logic of Sixteenth Century Discalced Franciscan Missions,” in Sixteenth-Century Mission: Global Mission in an Age of Reformation, ed. Edward L. Smither and Robert L. Gallagher (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2021).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Learning from the Confessions of the European Reformations,” in Every Voice Heard, No One Silenced: Practicing Theology in the Local Church with the Whole Church for the Whole World, ed. in Steven R. Harmon and Amy L. Chilton (Mercer University Press, 2020).

• David T. Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Introduction: Three Waves of Lascasian Scholarship,” in Bartolomé de las Casas, OP: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), 1–25.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Martin Luther in Latin America: From the Counter- Reformation Myth of Latin American Catholicism to Luther as Religious Caudillo,” in Martin Luther. A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517-2017), ed. Alberto Melloni, Federica Meloni, and Stefania de Nardis (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Martin Luther in Lateinamerika: Vom Mythos der Gegenreformation des lateinamerikanischen Katholizismus bis zu Luther als religiösem Caudillo,” in Martin Luther. A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517-2017), ed. Alberto Melloni, Federica Meloni, and Stefania de Nardis (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Martin Lutero in America Latina: Dal mito controriformistico del cattolicesimo latinoamericano a Lutero come caudillo religioso,” in Lutero: Un cristiano tra riforme e modernità (1517-2017), ed. Alberto Melloni, Federica Meloni, and Stefania de Nardis (Torino: Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 2017).

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• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Martin Luther, Commentarius in Apocalypsin ante 100 annos editus/Preface to A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Published One Hundred Years Ago (1528),” introduction and notes, in Luther’s Works: American Edition, ed. Christopher Boyd Brown (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2012), 59:203–207.

Translations in Peer-reviewed Collections (1):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, [Translation] “Excerpts from Luis de la Puente, Spiritual Guide That Deals with Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation of the Divine Visits and Extraordinary Graces as well as of Mortification and the Heroic Deeds That Come with It (1609, 1614),” in Brill's Companion to Jesuit Mystical Spirituality, ed. Robert Maryks (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), 77–79.

Published Essays (7):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Solidarity is Not a Favor: A Reflection on the Roots of the Sanctuary Movement,” Focus (2019), 26–29.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Introduction: Race as a Category of Anthropological Difference in the Formative Stage of Peripheral Catholicism,” in Early Modern Theologies of Race in the Age of European Expansion, ed. Rady Roldán-Figueroa, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity 4/2 (2017).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Luisa Capetillo’s Dream,” Focus (Spring 2014), 37–39.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Contemporary Anabaptists Historiography and Theology, and the Broadening of Baptist Identity,” Truett Journal of Church and Mission 1 (2006): 5–11.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “B.F. Stockwell, Protestant Mentality, and the Missionary Appropriation of Sixteenth Century Spanish Reformers,” Apuntes 23/3 (Fall 2003): 84–99.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “The Christologies of Luther and Sobrino and Pastoral Care,” Apuntes (Spring 2001): 15–29.

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Latin American Women through Missionary Eyes: The Work of the Women Commission of the Panama Congress,” Apuntes (Winter 1998): 112–124.

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Book Reviews (5):

• Kathy Ehrensperger and R. Ward Holder, eds. Reformation Readings of Romans (New York: T & T Clark International, 2008). Religious Studies Review 36 (2010).

• Miguel Servet, Obras completas. Vol. 3, Primeros escritos científicos, ed. Ángel Alcalá (Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2005). Renaissance and Reformation Review (2009).

• Randall C. Zachman, ed. John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique and Engagement, Then and Now (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008). Renaissance Quarterly (2009).

• Herman J. Selderhuis. Calvin’s Theology of the Psalms. (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought.) Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2007. 304 pp. Renaissance Quarterly 61.1 (2008), 210-211.

• Randall C. Zachman. Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 548 pp. Renaissance Quarterly 61.4 (2008), 1310-12.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Articles (Total 49):

Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (2017)

• “Catholic Reformation,” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (2017). • “Christian Humanism,” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (2017). • “Marsilius of Padua,” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (2017). • “Medieval Papacy,” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation (2017).

The Westminster Handbook to Reformation Theology (2010)

• “Alcalá, University of,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Alumbrados,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Bañez, Domingo,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Cajetan, Thomas de Vio Cardinal,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Celibacy,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).

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• “Corro, Antonio de,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Enzinas, Francisco de,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “John of the Cross,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Leo X, Pope,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Moral Conjecture,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Pérez de Pineda, Juan,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Practical Syllogism,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Reina, Casiodoro de,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Scotus, John Duns,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Suarez, Francisco,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Valdés, Juan de,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Vives, Juan Luis,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). • “Zanchi, Girolamo,” in The Westminster Handbook of Reformation Theology, ed. Ward Holder (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).

International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (2009)

• “Comunero Movement,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “Farga Pellicer, Rafael,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “González Prada, Manuel” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “Guillén, Abraham,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).

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• “Lorenzo, Anselmo,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “Mella, Ricardo” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “Moravian Brothers,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009). • “Reformation,” in International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Immanuel Ness, gen. ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).

New Westminster Dictionary of Church History (2008)

• “Acosta, Joseph (c. 1540-1600),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Alumbrados,” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Bañez, Dominic (1528-1604),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Bible, Translation (Renaissance and Reformation),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Corro, Antonio del (1527-1591),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Díaz, Juan (c. 1515-1546),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Jiménez de Cisneros, Francisco (1436-1517),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Juan de Avila (1499?-1569),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Juan de la Cruz,” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Marranos,” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Pedro de Alcántara (1499-1562),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Pérez de Pineda, Juan (c.1500-1568),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008).

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• “Ponce de la Fuente, Constantino (1502-1559),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Quiñones, Francisco de los Angeles (1475-1540),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Reina, Casiodoro de (c.1520-1594),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Salmeron, Alfonso (1515-1585),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de (1490-1573),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Torquemada, Tomás de (1420-1498),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). • “Torquemada, Juan de (1388-1468),” in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, gen. ed. (Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008).

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (Domestic and International, Total 46):

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Ecclesiastical Law and the Regulation of Daily Life in the Backwaters of the Spanish Empire: The 1645 Provincial Synod of San Juan Puerto Rico,” The Ten Commandments, Freedom, and the Early Modern Roots of Western Jurisprudence, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (October 28, 2019).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Baptist Political Theology and the Defense of Dipping, 1641– 1645,” Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (October 19, 2019).

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa and David Orique, “Bartolomé de las Casas and the 19th Century Transatlantic Debate over Slavery,” II International Conference on Bartolomé de las Casas, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island (July 15–16, 2019).

• “Bartolomé de las Casas and the Forced Conversions of the Jews in the Unico vocationis modo,” III International Conference,” The Third International Congress on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island (July 17–19, 2019).

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• “Catholicism, Nationalism, Race, and Fascism: The “Spanish Missional Historiology” of Constantino Bayle, S.J. (1882–1953),” International Symposium on Jesuit Studies. Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts (June 11–13, 2019).

• “The Sanctuary Movement in New England: The Unitarian Response and Community Church of Boston,” in The Sanctuary Movement as an Interfaith Response to a Humanitarian Crisis, Hillel House, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (April 22, 2019).

• “Masculinity and Spiritual Heroism in Luis de la Puente’s Vida del Padre Baltasar Álvarez (1615),” Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, ABQ, New Mexico (November 1, 2018).

• “Theologies of the First Sanctuary Movement (c. 1980-c. 1990),” Herencia Lectures, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey (October 2018).

• “Martin Luther in Latin America: From the Counter-Reformation Myth of Latin American Catholicism to Luther as Religious Caudillo,” Reformation Lectures, St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire (October 2017).

• “Synodal Councils and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in the Formative Stage of Peripheral Catholicism: Mexico, Manila, and San Juan de Puerto Rico,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 2017).

• “Nicolás de Arnaya, S.J., Disciple of Luis de la Puente,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (31 March 2017).

• “The Episcopal Office and the Defense of Humanity: Bartolomé de las Casas’s Theory of the Power of the Bishops,” Bartolomé de las Casas: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island (October 7-8, 2016).

• “Text and Paratext in a New Edition of Carrascón,” [Videoconference Presentation] Iberian Heterodoxes & Heterodoxies 1400-1700: I International Workshop, Universität Basel, Switzerland (September 2016).

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• “Christian Martyrdom in Japan and Logroño’s Theological Nobility in the Chorography of Fernando Alvia de Castro (1572–1640?),” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, Belgium (August 2016).

• “Baltasar de Medina (1634–1697) and His Martyrology of St. Felipe de Jesús (1572– 1597),” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, Belgium (August 2016).

• “Race in Bartolomé de las Casas’ De unico vocationis modo.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada (22 October 2015).

• “Anticlericalismo, filosemitismo e identidad protestante en el Carrascón.” Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain. 19 June 2015.

• “Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Definition of Jesuit Distinctiveness in Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583): How to Read the First Spanish Biography of the Founder of the Society of Jesus.” International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, Boston College (13 June 2015).

• Guest Speaker, “Spanish Accounts of Christian Martyrdom in Japan: Towards a Literary History,” sponsored by Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, Romance Studies Department, and Latin American Studies Program, at the Pardee School of Global Studies (24 October 2014).

• “Protestant Women Martyrs of Sixteenth-Century Spain and their Afterlife: A Topos in anti-Roman Catholic Literature.” Reformation Studies Colloquium, University of Cambridge (10 September 2014).

• “Enlisting Saints for the Cause of Catholic Missions: Marcelo de Ribadeneyra’s Historia de las Islas del Archipiélago Filipino (Barcelona, 1601).” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Juan, PR (October 2013).

• “Spanish Accounts of Christian Martyrdom in Tokugawa Japan, c. 1597-c. 1945: Ideational Representations and their Circulation in Spain, the Philippines, and New Spain,” Wednesday, Center for Southwest Research and Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (12 June 2013).

• “Father Luis de Guzmán, S.J. (1543-1605) and his Historia de las misiones (Alcalá, 1601) as a Defense of the Society of Jesus,” Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, California (6 April 2013).

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• “Neither did we think much to consult [...], neither did we disdain to revise”: The Translators of the King James Bible and their Use of Cypriano de Valera’s Spanish Bible.” International Colloquium, “Vernacular Bible and Religious Reform,” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (30 November 2012).

• November 2-3, 2012: Guest Speaker at the Eastern Fellowship of the American Society of Missiology Annual Meeting (New York). Subject: “Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spirituality of De unico vocationis modo.”

• “Martín de Roa, S.J. and the degrees and offices of Catholic women in his Vida de Doña Ana Ponce de León (1604, 1615),” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2012).

• “London Baptists and the Theological Defense of Believer’s Baptism by Immersion c. 1645,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Forth Worth, TX (October 2011).

• “La Oración de Recogimiento: Historia y Práctica,” New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, NJ (October 2011).

• “Hanserd Knollys and Baptist Religious Radicalism,” Reformation Studies Colloquium, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK (September 2010).

• “Juan de Ávila and the Spirituality of Reading.” Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy (April 2010).

• “Preaching the Death of the King: Funeral Sermons on the Occasion of King Philip II’s Death.” Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies: Twelfth International Conference, Durham University, Durham, UK (13-16 July 2009).

• “Tomás Carrascón y su traducción castellana de le versión jacobina del Libro de oración pública o Liturgia inglesa (1623).” I Congreso Internacional Reforma Protestante y Libertades en Europa,” Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (30 March – 1st April 2009).

• “Juan de Ávila and the Criticism of Old Christian Spirituality in his Audi, filia of 1556,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St Louis, MO (24 October 2008).

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• “Reading, Intellectual Capital, and the Religious Exile Tomás Carrascón,” Early Modern Reading Conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (April 10-12, 2008).

• “The Economy of Relics of Martyrs According to Spanish Sources (1614-1663),” Renaissance Society of America, Miami, FL (2007).

• “ ‘Relaciones de Martirios’: Or, the Literary Representation of Christian Martyrs in Japan.” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco (March 2006).

• “ ‘Los Someticos’: Biblical Glosses Against Sodomy in the Reina-Valera Bible (1602),” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta (October 2005).

• “Francisco de Osuna y el contenido, valor y límites de la experiencia religiosa,” Seminario Teológico Unión Evangélica Bautista Española, Madrid (June 2005).

• “Teresa de Ávila y el contenido, valor y límites de la experiencia religiosa,” Seminario Teológico Unión Evangélica Bautista Española, Madrid (June 2005).

• “Casiodoro de Reina on Romans 3: 28.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto (2004).

• “Reina’s Vision of the Reformed Ministry: A Reconstruction from the Fringes of the 1569 Spanish Translation of the Bible.” Lay Bibles in Europe 1450-1800 – International Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (April 22-23, 2004).

• “Canon and Identity in the Spanish Protestant Bible (1569, 1602).” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh (2003).

• “The Demonic and Political Power According to the Spanish Exile Casiodoro de Reina.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh (2003).

• “The Ecclesiology of a Refugee Church: The Case of the Confession de Fe Christiana.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio (2002).

• “The Catechisms of Luther and Valdés: A Comparative Study of their Main Ideas and Theological Assumptions.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver (2001).

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• “B.F. Stockwell, Protestant Mentality, and the Missionary Appropriation of Sixteenth Century Spanish Reformers.” Paper read at the Seminary Scholar Research Forum, Boston University School of Theology (2001).

Grants and Awards (Total 23):

• Jewish Cultural Endowment, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University.

• Greenleaf Visiting Scholar, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico (June 2013).

• Summer Research Sabbatical, Baylor University (2010).

• Summer Faculty Institute, Baylor University (intensive one-month professional development program aimed at the refinement of pedagogical skills, June 2009).

• Vocation and Faculty Formation Grants Program, Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University (2009). o Project: Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys (EEBT), $4,500.00

• Research Grant, University Research Committee, Baylor University (2008-09). o Project: Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys (EEBT), $7,000.

• Summer Research Sabbatical, Baylor University (2007).

• Research Grant, University Research Committee, Baylor University (2006). Project: “Paul among the Exiles: Readings of Paul by Sixteenth-Century Spanish Evangelicals,” $3,000.

• Lilly Theological Scholar Grant, Lilly Theological Research Grants Program of The Association of Theological Schools (2006). Project: “Paul among the Exiles: Readings of Paul by Sixteenth-Century Spanish Evangelicals,” $12,000.

• Summer Research Sabbatical, Baylor University (2006) [Biblioteca Nacional de España; Biblioteca del Palacio Real; New York Public Library; Bridwell Library].

• Summer Research Sabbatical, Baylor University (2005) [Biblioteca Nacional de España; Bridwell Library].

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• Lilly Teaching Fellowship in Religion and Philosophy (Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2003-04).

• Doctoral Fellowship (Boston University School of Theology 2000-02).

• Hispanic Theological Initiative, Special Mentoring/Networking Award (2002).

• Hispanic Theological Initiative, Second-Year Doctoral Level Award (2001).

• Hispanic Theological Initiative, Doctoral Level Award (2000).

• The George Augustus Sandham Scholarship (New Brunswick Theological Seminary, June 2000).

• The Reverend Edward Lodewick Prize for Excellence in Preaching (New Brunswick Theological Seminary, June 2000).

• Hageman Scholar Award (New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1997-00).

• Hispanic Theological Initiative, Second-Year Master’s Level Award (1999).

• Spanish-American Baptist Seminary Scholarship Fund, American Baptist Churches – USA (1996, 97, 98, 99).

• Hispanic Theological Initiative, Master’s Level Award (1998).

• American Baptist Churches of New Jersey Scholarship Award (1997, 98).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Theology Track Director (2013-2020), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

• Steering Committee (2015-2019), Roman Catholic Studies Group, American Academy of Religion

EDITORIAL BOARDS

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• Editor, Journal of Early Modern Christianity (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014-).

• Editorial Board, Family and Community Ministries: Empowering through Faith (School of Social Work, Baylor University: 2007-2009).

• Advisory Board, Early Printed Bibles: Printed Bibles and Bible Translations from the 15th and 16th Centuries, ed., August den Hollander, rev. ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

Reviewer (Review of Articles, Book Manuscripts, Research Proposals): • Sixteenth Century Journal • Revista Hispánica Moderna (Columbia University) • Studies in the History of Christian Traditions (Brill) • Jesuit Sources • Perspectives in Religious Studies

COMMITTEE WORK

I Boston University

2020-2021 University Committees: • D&I Team or D&I Chairs (Ongoing) • University Recruitment Committee (Ongoing) • Post COVID-19 Response (New)

School of Theology: • Research, Library, and Lectures • Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure • Self-Study Steering Committee • Mid-Tenure Review (2) • Tenure-Track Faculty Mentor (2)

2019-2020 University Committees: • D&I Team or D&I Chairs (Ongoing) • University Recruitment Committee (Ongoing) • Post COVID-19 Response (New)

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School of Theology: • Research, Library, and Lectures

2018-2019 • Omnibus Search Committee

2017-2018 • Chair, Steering Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

2016-2017 • Chair, Steering Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

2015-2016 • School of Theology Faculty Council • Boston University Research Council • Chair, Omnibus Search Committee • Chair, Steering Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

2014-2015 • School of Theology Faculty Council -The STH Faculty Council is an advisory committee responsible for assisting Dean of STH in the formulation of school policies and programs.

• Community & Spiritual Life Committee -CSL oversees and coordinates programs conducive to spiritual health and wellbeing among STH students and faculty.

• Boston University Research Council -The Research Council is a university-wide committee that works with the office of the Associate Provost for Research in an advisory capacity.

2013-2014 • Academic Programs, Policies, and Fellowships -The APPF is responsible for the formulating and recommendation of academic policies. In the academic year 2013-14, it concluded a two-year revision of the STH curriculum.

• Academic Conduct Committee -The AC works with the STH Academic Dean in matters related to academic conduct.

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• Digital Librarian Search Committee -The DL Search Committee served in an advisory capacity with the STH Librarian in reading candidates resumes, conducting interviews, and selecting candidates for the position of the Digital Librarian.

• BU Faculty Council -The BU Faculty Council is a university-wide committee; participation is by vote-election.

• BU University Council -BU University Council is a university-wide committee; participation is by vote-election.

• School of Theology Faculty Council -The STH Faculty Council is an advisory committee responsible for assisting Dean of STH in the formulation of school policies and programs.

2012-2013 • Academic Programs, Policies, and Fellowships -The APPF is responsible for the formulating and recommendation of academic policies. In the academic year 2012-13, it began a two-year revision of the STH curriculum.

• Academic Conduct Committee -The AC works with the STH Academic Dean in matters related to academic conduct.

• Library Committee - The LC works with the STH Librarian in the formulation of policies related to the library and the evaluation of services.

• STH Student Association Faculty Advisor -The STH Student Association Advisor works with student-led organizations in the coordination of special programs.

2011-2012 • Library Committee - The LC works with the STH Librarian in the formulation of policies related to the library and the evaluation of services.

• Digital Librarian Search Committee

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-The DL Search Committee served in an advisory capacity with the STH Librarian in reading candidates resumes, conducting interviews, and selecting candidates for the position of the Digital Librarian.

II Baylor University

2010-2011 • Library Committee

2009-2010 • Library Committee • Faculty Search Committee (Theology)

2008-2009 • Library Committee • Graduate Admissions Committee

2007-2008 • Library Committee

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