Duke Divinity School will hold a Service of the Word & Table with the Rev. Dr. Daisy Machado preaching. This worship service will be hosted by the Hispanic House of Studies and La Union Latina student group, both at the school.

All are welcome. You can join the livestream on YouTube.

Rev. Dr. Machado will also give a public lecture at 5 p.m. the same day. 

About Dr. Daisy Machado

The Reverend Dr. Daisy L. Machado, Ph.D., a native of Cuba who grew up in New York City, is a professor of American religious history at Union Theological Seminary, where she also served as academic dean, the first Latina to hold this position. Prior to coming to Union she served as vice president for academic affairs and dean at Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, Ky. Rev. Dr. Machado holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College; a Master of Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work; a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is also the first Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Northeast Region (1981) having served a Latinx congregation in Brooklyn before moving to Texas to do the work of pastor developer, helping to establish two new Disciples Latinx church starts, one in Houston and one in Fort Worth.

Rev. Dr. Machado is the author of numerous articles and encyclopedia entries. She is also the author of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in the Southwest, 1888-1942, and co-editor of A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice. She has written “History and Latino Identity: Mapping A Past That Leads to Our Future” (in Companion to Latina/o Theology, edited by Orlando Espín, 2015); “Borderlife and the Religious Imagination” (in Religion and Politics in America’s Borderlands, edited by Sarah Azaransky, 2013); “Promoting Solidarity with Migrants” (in Justice In a Global Economy, ed. Pamela Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters and Laura Stivers) and “Voices from Nepantla: Latinas in U.S. Religious History” (in Feminist Intercultural Theology: Latina Explorations for a Just World, ed. María Pilar Aquino and María José Rosado-Nunes). She is co-editor of an anthology on borderland religion that collects the work of scholars from South Africa, Norway, Austria, Denmark, and the U.S. published in 2019 titled Borderland Religion: Ambiguous practices of difference, hope and beyond (Routledge Press).

Dr. Machado is currently director of the Hispanic Summer Program (HSP), the first woman to hold this position. The HSP is a national program of theological education for Latinx seminary students from around the country who are enrolled ATS schools. The HSP’s program in June 2022 will be hosted by Duke Divinity School and will be its 33^th consecutive summer session.