Vincent Lloyd

Vincent Lloyd is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, where he directs the Center for Political Theology. He received his B.A. in Religion from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Lloyd’s books include Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022), Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, co-authored with Joshua Dubler (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Political Theology Reimagined, co-edited with Alex Dubilet (forthcoming from Duke University Press). He co-edited the journal Political Theology from 2012-2024, and he co-edits the Transforming Political Theologies book series. Lloyd previously held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute, Durham University, Emory University, and Notre Dame. During his Guggenheim Fellowship, he will be writing Harold Cruse: Radical Contrarian, to be published by Yale University Press, using one of the forgotten founders of Black studies as an occasion to reflect on the values animating the field.