William T. Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh is the inaugural Beeson Family Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology (CWCIT). He earned his Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 1996. His major areas of research include political theology, economic ethics, ecclesiology, and the relationship between Christianity and social, political, and economic realities. He authored Torture and Eucharist (1998), The Myth of Religious Violence (2009), Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church (2011), and The Uses of Idolatry (2024).