Xochitl Alvizo is Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the area of Women and Religion and the Philosophy of Sex, Gender, Sexuality. She has a PhD in Practical Theology from Boston University. Her research areas include: feminist and queer approaches to the study of religion, feminist ecclesiology, emerging Christianity, and congregational studies. She is co-founder of Feminism and Religion, an online project of feminist voices from around the world in dialogue about feminism in religion. She was born and raised in L.A.
PUBLICATIONS
2025, “A More Dalyan Christianity,” in Catholicism: End or Beginning? The Unpublished Manuscript of Mary Daly, ed. Margaret Mary Stapleton Smith, Oxford University Press.
2022, “The Emerging Church Movement: Possible Futures and Trajectories,” co-authored with Rachel Schneider Vlachos and Terry Shoemaker, Cascade Books.
2018 “Emerging Out of Patriarchy? The Emerging Church Movement from a Feminist Practical Theological Perspective,” co-authored with Gerardo Martí. In The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion, eds. Randall Reed and Michael Zbaraschuk (Cascade Books).
2018 “Radical Economics and Wesleyan Congregations in the U.S.,” co-authored with Bryan Stone, The Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, https://oxford-institute.org/working-group-papers-at-2018-institute/.
CONFERENCES:
American Academy of Religion
Queer and Trans Studies in Religion
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Ph.D. 2015, Boston University
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M.Div 2007, Boston University
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B.A. 2001, University of Southern California
