Quick trip to Notre Dame Law on this jam packed Tuesday. Honored to have served on a panel addressing sanctuary & asylum and happy to have spoken with future and current attorneys working the frontlines on immigration as part of the Global Human Rights Clinic. Thnx! Victoria Foley for facilitating.
11.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friends, I couldn’t be happier to share that last week I earned tenure at Amherst College.
I’m indebted to my family, friends, and mentors along the way. Thanks for your encouragement, advice, and, hospitality.
Getting ahead of the printer in July 2026 :)
Beyond troubling. Pastor Woolf’s showing that faith calls for resistance. See his attached essay from this week.
14.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book flyer showing cover of Immigration + Apocalypse, with panelists Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, Jennifer Kaalund, Independent Scholar, Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross, Roberto Mata, Santa Clara University, Moderated by Jacqueline Hidalgo, University of San Diego. Co-sponsored by AAR Politics & Migration, SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics, Bible in America, John's Apocalypse & Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern, Latino/a/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation.
Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social
04.11.2025 19:17 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2Enjoyed the conversation!
12.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent work here by USC Phd student Christian Pattavina!
23.07.2025 00:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Job: Latinx religious studies "The Latina/o Studies Program at Williams College welcomes applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Latinx religious studies and/or the study of spiritual practices, broadly and interdisciplinarily defined."
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New piece by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social: "The Future of Sanctuary"
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Truly enjoyed working on this w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and thnx to the superb team at @dissentmag.bsky.social
27.05.2025 22:06 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...
26.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Too kind!
24.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My latest in JAAR. This time on the “usable sacred histories” of the Sanctuary Movement.
Shoutout to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
and the American Religion workshops at Stanford and Princeton led by @kginlum.bsky.social and Nicole Myers Turner, respectively.
academic.oup.com/jaar/advance...
Thnx! Hope it inspires and moves!
13.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thnx for sharing! Glad I can contribute!
13.05.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happening tmrw!
08.05.2025 02:02 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Collabs w/ @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social are the best! Here’s another one and special thnx to @dissentmag.bsky.social !
05.05.2025 20:54 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Awww thnx!!
11.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! Just got your new book, btw!
11.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Grateful for this opportunity to finish my next book “A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the US Sanctuary Movement” 🙏
11.04.2025 11:26 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Much appreciated!
11.04.2025 04:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The history of sanctuary is a history of organizing that has guidance for us now. Grateful to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and @elprofebarba.bsky.social for their incredible work.
18.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
@elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are in TIME today sharing our thoughts on the history of sanctuary cities, a social movement practice now forty years old.
Thanks to @carlygoodman.bsky.social for all of your editing, couldn't have done it without you!
time.com/7264323/sanc...
Happy to share my new “Spotlight Analysis” for @prripoll.bsky.social.
Migrant crime is the Trump administration’s key propaganda piece, so, an aggressive media campaign is in place to swell this already high-tide of xenophobia.
www.prri.org/spotlight/wh...
Interested in learning about local immigration sanctuary policies in the U.S.?
Check out "Mapping U.S. Sanctuary Policies."
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cdc7...
A few more
18.02.2025 19:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bevy of Beecher books from my personal collection for class today as we wrapped up Stowe’s religious biography. I lowkey wonder what Henry (Amherst class of 1834) would have to say about all this 🤔
18.02.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy to see this getting more coverage in Spanish media and had a great conversation with Patricia Caro at El País…we chatted about a wide range of topics but lots of big issues and major players sort of conversation.
16.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More big news on all things sanctuary and freedom of religion…also churches see attendance drop for fear of deportations.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Congrats to Cara & Lauren and thanks to @gerardomarti.bsky.social & Jonathan for the smooth collab!
11.02.2025 01:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New: PRRI Public Fellows @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social consider President Trump’s efforts to dismantle sanctuary cities in order to meet his ultimate goal of mass deportations
arcmag.org/let-us-now-p...
