Erin Lothes is a theologian at the College of Saint Elizabeth,
Morristown, NJ., a researcher in the field of energy ethics, and a
scholar of the faith-based environmental movement. She served as an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia University and has authored a variety of books.
Lothes has advocated for research regarding the moral dimensions of fossil fuel divestment within the Catholic community
in the United States, and has participated in the activism and
scholarship of the interfaith environmental movement since 2003
through collaborations with groups such as GreenFaith, the Forum
on Religion and Ecology at Yale, the Catholic Climate Covenant,
and the Global Catholic Climate Movement.
She holds a Ph.D. in systematic Theology from Fordham University, a
Master's in Theology from Boston College, and an A.B. from
Princeton University.
