Patrick Hornbeck is chair and associate professor of theology at Fordham University, where he teaches and writes about the history of Christianity, contemporary U.S. Catholicism, and LGBTQ concerns in religion. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the two-volume collection More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church (Fordham University Press, 2014). He received his graduate degrees from the University of Oxford and graduated as valedictorian from Georgetown University.