Rev. Dr. Daisy L. Machado

This weeks guest is the Rev. Dr. Daisy L. Machado. Daisy L. Machado serves as the Executive Director of the Hispanic Summer Program, a unique program of theological education founded in 1989, and is Professor of American Religious History at Union Theological Seminary​​​​​​​. Dr. Machado, a native of Cuba, came to New York City when she was three years old. She has also served as academic dean of Lexington Theological Seminary (Lexington, KY) and Union Theological Seminary, the first Latina to hold this position in both institutions. Dr. Machado was also the first director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative when it opened its doors in 1996. Dr. Machado has lectured in many seminaries and conferences both in the United States and abroad. She is the author of several published works related to borderlands history and theology. Her latest publication is Borderland Religion: Ambiguous Practices of Difference and Hope an anthology published in 2019 which she co-edited with Dr. Trygve Wyller (Norway) and Dr. Bryan Turner (Australia) containing essays by a group of international scholars​​​​​​​. In this anthology she also has an essay titled “Santa Muerte: A Transgressing Saint Transgresses Borders”. In addition, Dr. Machado has also authored other book chapters on the borderlands, among them: the chapter “History and Latino Identity: Mapping A Past That Leads to Our Future” in the book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino/a Theology; “Borderlife and the Religious Imagination” in the anthology Religion and Politics; and “The Southern U.S. Border: Immigration, the Historical Imagination, and Globalization” in Rethinking Economic Globalization. She is also co-editor of the volume, A Reader in Critical Latina Feminist Theology which contains her essay “The Unamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and the Unamed Woman”. Her first monograph on the issue of the borderlands was Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945. You can find out more about this series at artedelagrimas.org.