Anna Rowlands

Anna Frances Rowlands (born 1975) is a British theologian and academic, specialising in Catholic social teaching and contemporary Catholic theology. Since 2017, she has been St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at the University of Durham. She has been on secondment at the Vatican for the Synod on Synodality, working with the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, since 2023. She has previously taught at Westcott House, Cambridge, a Church of England theological college, and at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a Roman Catholic theological college which is part of the Cambridge Theological Federation, and King's College, London.

Personal life

Rowlands was brought up in Manchester, England, by her Catholic Irish diaspora family. She is married to an Anglican priest, with who she has one son.

Selected works

• Graham, Elaine; Rowlands, Anna, eds. (2005). Pathways to the Public Square: Practical Theology in an Age of Pluralism; International Academy of Practical Theology, Manchester 2003. International Practical Theology. Vol. 1. Münster: LIT-Verl. ISBN 978-3825884239.
• Rowlands, Anna (2021). Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0567219084.
• Phillips, Elizabeth; Rowlands, Anna; Daughton, Amy, eds. (2021). T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology. London: T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0567666970.