Craig A. Ford, Jr. (Ph.D., Boston College) is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College (De Pere, WI), where he serves as Director of the Peace and Justice Interdisciplinary Minor. He is also on the faculty at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA). Dr. Ford writes on topics at the intersection of the Catholic moral tradition, queer theology/queer theory, and Black studies, and he is the author of a number of prominent essays, including “Transgender Bodies, Catholic Schools, and a Queer Natural Law Theology of Exploration” (Journal of Moral Theology, 2018), and “Our New Galileo Affair” (Horizons, 2023), which received the Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for Best Essay by a young scholar from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 2022. This upcoming academic year, Dr. Ford will serve as the Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University (Chicago, IL).