Interests:
Modern Latin America with a primary emphasis
in Caribbean religions and cultures.
Current Research:
I recently completed a monograph titled Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles and
Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 (UNC Press, 2007). A brief description and
other details are available through the publisher's
website.
I am now conducting research on nineteenth-century
Cuban Spiritism. My aim is to understand
the ethnogenetic dimensions of
this practice and to explore its role in the mobilization of anti-colonial
insurgents and veterans of the War of Independence
(1895-1898).
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