Rosemary P. Carbine is a Catholic feminist theologian and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Whittier College, a Quaker-heritage MSI/HSI small liberal arts college in southern California. Carbine specializes in U.S. and global Christianities, theological anthropology, comparative women’s liberation theologies, public theologies, ecological theologies, and teaching and learning in theology and religion. Beyond numerous scholarly journal articles and essays in edited books, she has co-edited three books: Women, Wisdom, and Witness (Liturgical, 2012), Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and The Gift of Theology (Fortress, 2015). Her most recent and critically acclaimed book is Nevertheless, We Persist: A Feminist Public Theology (Orbis Press, 2023), in which Carbine elaborates a constructive feminist public theology in conversation with US faith-based social justice movements. Currently, Carbine edits the Winter issue of the international journal Critical Theology. She is a former co-chair of the Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit and former member of the Women and Religion Unit in the American Academy of Religion, and is also former convener of Theological Anthropology, Women’s Consultation on Constructive Theology, and Public Theology Interest Group in the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Rosemary Carbine