Berkley Center

David Lantigua is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame where he is co-director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. He is author of Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-editor with Lawrence Clayton of Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents (University of Alabama Press, 2020). His current book manuscript examines the Latin American theological and cultural dimensions of Pope Francis's social thought and its implications for global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.