Karen V. Guth (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her book, The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts (Cambridge, 2022), was awarded the 2023 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective Studies. She is also the author of Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress, 2015).