Senior Fellow
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
November 14, 2024
Senior Fellow Andrew Prevot will participate in a November 14 online conversation, sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild, about how Dorothy Day and the six Black American Catholics whose causes for canonization are open can offer a vision of politically-engaged holiness in our present time.
Andrew Prevot is the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies, senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He studies the vital roles that Christian spirituality plays in contemporary theology, philosophy, culture, and politics, with a particular focus on Roman Catholic and Black/African American traditions. He is the author of The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2023); Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States (Brill, 2018); and Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015). He co-edited Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics (Orbis Books, 2017) and has published more than 30 articles and essays. Before coming to Georgetown, he was on the faculty at Boston College. He holds a Ph.D. and M.T.S. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College.
