Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

Professor Emeritus of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College; Distinguished Scholar, City University of New York. Widely published in both English and Spanish, he has written more than 50 scholarly articles and authored nine books, including the four-volume PARAL series on religion among Latinos/as. His 1980 book Prophets Denied Honor is considered a landmark of Catholic literature. More recently, he has published Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key on the Pope’s visit to Cuba and an historical essay on early Latin American theology in Oxford University Press’ From Trent to Vatican II (2006). A spokesperson for civil and human rights, he has testified before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations and was named by President Jimmy Carter to the Advisory Board on the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights for two terms. Dr. Stevens-Arroyo is now in the process of retiring as Director of the Center for Study of Religion in Society and Culture and of the Program for Studies of Religion at Brooklyn College.

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