Jeffrey W. Robbins

Jeffrey W. Robbins is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College, where he teaches in the Honors and the Social Justice and Civic Engagement programs and serves as the Faculty Mentor for the Allwein Scholars Program. He was awarded the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for Outstanding Teaching at LVC in 2005. He is the Academic Director of the Westar Institute and was the original chair of the Westar seminar on “God and the Human Future.” He is the author or editor of ten books, including "The Willing Damned: Faithfulness and Resistance Beyond Belief," "Radical Theology: A Vision for Change" (Indiana University Press, 2016), and co-author of "An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics "(Columbia University Press, 2016), which was named as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2016. He is also a Contributing Editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and co-editor of the Columbia University Press book series “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.” He was identified in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion as “one of the best commentators on religion and postmodernism.” He has spoken at national and international conferences and been an invited as a guest lecturer or keynote speaker throughout the world, including Austria, China, England, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Tunisia and Turkey.