Laurel C. Schneider, Ph.D. is currently a research faculty member of the Boston University School of Theology. Trained as a constructive theologian, her research, writing, and teaching has focused on feminist, queer, decolonial and liberation possibilities for Christian and post-Christian theologies. A long interest in Indigenous traditions of eastern North America that started in undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and carried through her career has influenced her work and teaching in both theology and philosophy. Theological imagination is grounded in deep cultural assumptions that frame epistemologies, practices, ontologies, and religious hopes. Constructive theology that attunes itself to these assumptions works to understand the limitations of settler colonial and neo-capitalist influences on contemporary religious life.
Schneider serves as AAR’s President-Elect in 2025 and AAR’s President in 2026. In addition to her published books, she has numerous articles and anthology chapters relating to concepts of multiplicity, divinity, sexuality, race, and postcolonial theory and is currently at work on poetics and imagining beyond dystopia/s. Apart from her scholarly work in theology and philosophy, she also serves on the local and district school boards in her home town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.