In our newest episode of the podcast, I talk with my friend and fellow Boston College alum Nichole Flores. We talk about how working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers during divinity school helped her understand her vocation as a theologian, how she understands the public role of the theologian, including at public universities, and her work on the intersection of theology and democracy. We also talk extensively about her book The Aesthetics of Solidarity and the diverse ways that people appropriate significant religious symbols like Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Dr. Nichole Marie Flores is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She earned her AB in Government at Smith College, her MDiv from Yale Divinity School, and her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College. Her research focuses on the intersection of Catholic ethics, theological aesthetics, and democracy. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown University Press, 2021).
#48 - Nichole Flores