Norman Wirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology at Duke University (NC) and a senior fellow at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. He teaches on a wide array of topics, ranging from climate change and sustainability to theological reflection on land and economics, and lectures frequently in Canada, the United States, and Europe. As director of research at Duke’s Office of Climate and Sustainability, Wirzba works with colleagues from across the university to develop the multi-disciplinary teams and research programs that can address the many social and ecological dimensions of climate change. He recently completed his role as the director of a multi-year project, “Facing the Anthropocene,” housed at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. In this project, he worked with an international team of scholars to rethink several academic disciplines in light of challenges like climate change, food insecurity, biotechnology and genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, species extinction, and the built environment.
Wirzba is the author Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge University Press, 2011), This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), and most recently Love’s Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis (Yale University Press, 2024).