Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Miami. She is the author of Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (Orbis Books, 2003); Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture, and Identity (University Press of Florida, 2006); Created in God’s Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology (Orbis Books, 2007), and Caribbean Religious History (co-authored with Ennis Edmonds, NYU Press, 2010).