Faculty Bio

Dr. Roland Guzmán is a Puerto Rican, queer, gender-non-conforming Episcopal priest and academic. Dr. Roland serves as Assistant Professor of Church History. They published Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians: An Anglican Approach (2020) and have written for various journals and participated in various advisory groups.

As a historian Dr. Roland is focused on trans-Atlantic European entanglements (15th-18th centuries) and the encounter (discursive and otherwise) of the other.  Ordained for over 20 years, they have extensive practical and academic knowledge on the Episcopal Church and Anglicanism and their histories.

Dr. Roland approaches their work through, world, decolonial, and interdisciplinary methodologies; and works to delink from hegemonic epistemologies in the field and in theological education.

Since 2004, they have served at St. Matthew & St. Timothy’s—a NYC bilingual, multicultural, and inclusive outreach- and community-focused congregation. In 2018 they were profiled in NBC Out’s #Pride30 (2018). Dr. Roland is a member of the Episcopal Church’s General Board of Examining Chaplains and has taught at Pacific Lutheran, University of the South, and Union Theological Seminary (NYC).

Dr. Roland holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cornell (1994); MDiv from CDSP/MA in Church History from GTU (2001); PhD in Theology with a concentration in Church History from Exeter/Hartford (2017) and has received fellowships/grants from the Hispanic Theological Initiative, the Episcopal Church Foundation, and the Louisville Institute.