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| 1995 | Ph.D., History (Latin America) | |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1998 | University of Houston Limited Grant-in-Aid for research on "Latin America's New Religious Marketplace" | |
| 1994-95 | UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship | |
| 1993-94 | Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Brazil | |
| UCLA Latin American Center research grant | ||
| UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs | ||
| long term fieldwork grant | ||
| 1992-93 | National Resource (Title VI) Fellowship, Portuguese | |
| 1988-89 | University of Wisconsin Alumni Fellowship, full support |
| 1998 | "Latin America's New Religious Marketplace;" book proposal that seeks to explain the historical development of a relatively free religious marketplace in Latin America. Under consideration at Rutgers University Press. | |
| "Pentecostalize or Perish?," editor and translator; edited volume on charismatic Christianity in Brazil authored by a joint team of Brazilian and U.S. scholars. Under consideration at Duke University Press. | ||
| 1997 | Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty; book on the Pentecostal boom in Brazil, published Fall 1997, Rutgers University Press. A spiritual revolution is transforming the religious landscape of Latin America. Evangelical Protestantism, particularly Pentecostalism, has replaced Catholicism as the leading religion in thousands of barrios on the urban periphery. But in few Latin American nations have Protestants multiplied as rapidly as in Brazil. What accounts for this rise? | |
| "Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid;" chapter in Virginia Garrard Burnett's On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion in Latin America. Forthcoming spring 1998, Scholarly Resources, Jaguar Series on Latin America. | ||
| "The Salvation Army or the Army's Salvation?: Pentecostal Politics in Amazonian Brazil, 1962-1992;" forthcoming article (1998) in Luso-Brazilian Review. The article was presented at LASA 97 in Guadalajara as part of panel entitled "Latin America: The Rim of Christendom." | ||
| Book review of Promised Land, forthcoming (1998) in Luso-Brazilian Review. |
| 1997-98 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of History, University of Houston. As the Brazilianist in the department, I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Brazilian and Latin American history. I am commencing research on Latin America's new religious marketplace. | |
| 1996-97 | Lecturer, Department of History, UCLA. Taught the following courses: undergraduate seminar Social History of Brazilian Amazonia, graduate seminar Brazilian National Identity, undergraduate seminar The Religions of Modern Latin America; lecture class Religion and Society in Modern Latin America, and U.S.-Latin American Relations. | |
| 1993-94 | Research Associate, Centro de Filosofia E Ciencias Humanas, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil. Conducted dissertation field research on Pentecostalism in Brazil. |
| 1995 | Brazilian Studies Association and Southern California Association of Brazilianists | |
| 1994 | American Historical Association and Latin American Studies Association |