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Book Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) Articles and book chapters “Enchanted Once More: Popular Religion in Latin America,” co-authored with Pamela Voekel in José C. Moya, ed. Latin American History and Historiography (Forthcoming from Oxford University Press). "Governing Man-Gods: Spiritism and the Struggle for Progress in Republican Cuba." Journal of Religions in Africa 37 (2): 212-241. “Puerto Rico.” The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, vols. XI and XII, Caribbean Series (Forthcoming from the University of California Press). Annotation, editing, and translation of twenty-two documents related to the UNIA in Puerto Rico with an introductory essay. “Scandalous Race: Garveyism, the Bomba, and the Discourses of Blackness in 1920s Puerto Rico.” Caribbean Studies 31 (1): 213-259, special issue: Garveyism in the Hispanic Caribbean, ed. Jorge L. Giovannetti and Reinaldo L. Román. Re-printed in Tony Martin, ed. Global Garveyism (Forthcoming from The Majority Press). “Spiritists versus Spirit-mongers: Julia Vázquez and the Struggle for Progress in 1920s Puerto Rico.” Centro 14 (2): 26-47. “Christian Themes: Mainstream Traditions and Millenarian Violence,” in Michael Barkun, ed., Millennialism and Violence. (London and Portland: Frank Cass & Co., 1996), 51-82. Appeared as an article by the same title in Terrorism and Political Violence 7 (3) : 51-82. Reviews Review of Frederick H. Smith, Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005). Caribbean Studies (Forthcoming). Review of Raquel Romberg, Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003). Caribbean Studies 32 (1):  230-234. Review of Stephan Palmié, Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002). The Historian 66 (1): 155-157. Review of Louis A. Pérez, Jr., Winds of Change:Hurricanes and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001). The Historian 65 (4): 1010-1011. Review of Miguel Barnet, Afro-Cuban Religions (Princeton NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001). New West Indian Guide 77 (1 & 2): 171-173. Review of Clive Foss, Fidel Castro (Phoenix Mill and Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000). The Historian 64 (3 & 4): 746-747. Review of María Teresa Vélez, Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil, Santero, Palero and Abakuá. (Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2000). New West Indian Guide 76 (1&2): 154-156. Review of K. Lynn Stoner and Luis Hipólito Serrano Pérez, Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000). Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 12 (2): 194-195. "Memories Mended and Imagined." Review of Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip-Hop (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Published by H-Latam@h-net.msu.edu (September 2000). "Accounting for the middleman." Review of José A. Cobas and Jorge Duany, Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (Gainesville: University of Florida, 1997). Published by H-LatAm@h-net.msu.edu (March 1998). "On Jíbaro Pentecostals and Popular Religion in Puerto Rico." Review of Nélida Agosto Cintrón, Religión y cambio social en Puerto Rico, 1898 -1940 (Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1996). Published by H-LatAm@h-net.msu.edu (January 1997) and in print in Journal of Social History, 32 (3): 710-714. "Savage History, Dialogue and Their Possibilities: Nandy's The Savage Freud and Other Essays." Emergences, 7/8: 226-234.