Rachel Baard

Rachel Sophia Baard is a South African theologian. Since 2019, she is an assistant professor of Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Her first book, Sexism and Sin-Talk: Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition (2019) won the 2020 Andrew Murray / Desmond Tutu Book Prize. Her research areas include systematic and constructive theology, theological ethics, and feminist and political theologies.

She graduated from Stellenbosch University with degrees in law and theological ethics. She earned her Ph.D. of Systematic Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Before moving to Richmond, she previously taught at Villanova University.