Vincent Lloyd

Dr. Vincent W. Lloyd is professor of theology and religious studies and the director of the Center for Political Theology at Villanova University, where he researches and teaches about the philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and race. Dr. Lloyd's publications include Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022); Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, with Joshua Dubler (Oxford University Press, 2019); Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology (Fordham University Press, 2017); and Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics, edited with Andrew Prevot (Orbis, 2017). He coedits the journal Political Theology as well as the book series Transforming Political Theologies, published by Routledge, with Judith Gruber and David True. A second-generation Panamanian-American, Dr. Lloyd is vegan and lives with a partner, two children, and a pit bull in Philadelphia's Powelton neighborhood.