In his new book, Touched By This Place (Orbis Books, 2024), Benjamín Valentín encourages readers to recognize how place—the geographical place in which we live and move and have our being—affects and molds human thought, experience, memory, identity, and activity. In Touched By This Place, Valentín focuses mostly on the subject of recognizing the epistemic significiance or the epistemic contributions of place. Valentin adds his own personal story of place: New York City’s East Harlem, where he grew up and lived for 27 years. He hopes his book encourages interest in scholars to further explore the potential contributions of place-based studies within theology. A cross-disciplinary scholar, Valentín is a professor of theology and Latinx studies at Boston College’s Clough School of Theology and Ministry.