Lois Ann Lorentzen is Professor of Social Ethics in the Theology
and Religious Studies Department at the University of San Francisco
(USF) and Co-Director of the Center for Latin@ Studies in the
Americas (CELASA). Professor Lorentzen received her PhD in Social
Ethics at the University of Southern California. Prior to coming to
USF she taught at Saint Joseph's University in
Philadelphia.
Professor Lorentzen is the author of Etica Ambiental
(Environmental Ethics) and Raisingthe Bar, editor
of Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States:
Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented
Immigration, and co-editor of On the Corner of Bliss and
Nirvana: the intersection of religion, politics, and identity in
new migrant communities; Ecofeminism and Globalization:
Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion; Religion/Globalization:
Theories and Cases; The Women and War Reader;Liberation
Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas; and, The
Gendered New WorldOrder: Militarism, the Environment and
Development. She is Associate Editor for the Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature and the Encyclopedia of Violence,
Peace and Conflict, and has written numerous articles in the
fields of women and war, religion and violence, religion and
immigration, and gender and the environment.
Professor Lorentzen's research and teaching interests
include: immigration, environmental ethics, gender and religion.
She has conducted research in El Salvador and Mexico. She is a
former wilderness guide and misses it desperately.
