Anna Rowlands (born 1975) is a British political theologian and academic, specialising in Catholic social teaching, migration ethics, and contemporary political theology. She holds the St Hilda Chair for Catholic Social Thought and Practice at the University of Durham, a position she has held since 2017.
Rowlands’ work sits at the intersection of Christian theology and social and political theory. Originally trained in the social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by postgraduate degrees in theology. She has developed an internationally recognised research profile over two decades, specialising in social philosophers and political theologians Gillian Rose, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt—a trio that informs her current book project.
In 2021, Rowlands published her first book, "Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times". The text took a fresh approach to weaving overviews of the central principles with the development of thinking on political community and democracy, migration, and integral ecology, and by considering the increasingly critical questions concerning the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. Recognised for its fresh approach to Catholic Social Teaching, the book won the Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award in 2023. 
Alongside her theoretical work, Rowlands has spent the last 15 years engaged in research on forced migration and the ethics of migration, with a sustained commitment to the tradition and contemporary application of Catholic Social Teaching.
In 2023, Rowlands was seconded to the Vatican, where she has been working with the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on the Synod on Synodality. She has previously taught at King’s College London, Westcott House, and The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge.