Leverhulme Lecture 2026: Performing Grace, Performing Race

We are delighted to announce that King’s College London has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for Professor Vincent Lloyd to join the Department of Theology and Religious Studies for 2026–2027.

Professor Lloyd will be delivering his 2026 Leverhulme Lecture at King’s on the theme of “Performing Grace, Performing Race”.

Professor Lloyd is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA, where he also directs the Center for Political Theology. He is the author of seven monographs and two co-authored books, and editor or co-editor of six edited volumes. His authored works include What Is Political Theology? (with Luke Bretherton and Valentina Napolitano; Columbia University Press, 2025), Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022), Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (with Joshua Dubler; Oxford University Press, 2019), Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology (Fordham University Press, 2017), Black Natural Law (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology (Stanford University Press, 2011). Professor Lloyd’s research has been recognised by numerous prestigious fellowships, including Guggenheim Fellowship, Henry Luce Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among many others.