Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion at Williams College where she served as Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Religion (2008-2010). She is adapting her dissertation into a book, California Dreaming: Scriptural Imaginaries and the Power of (No)Place from Aztlán to the New Jerusalem, which examines a few scripturalized utopias in the imagination and contestation of California. Currently a board member of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, she is also a member of the American Academy of Religion Status of Women in the Profession Committee, a member of the Society of Biblical Literature Committee on Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, and co-chair of the Bible and Cultural Studies Steering Committee at the Society of Biblical Literature.