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• Professor of Political Science
• Director of Latin American Studies Program

Academic Background            

• University of Chicago: Ph.D. in Social Sciences, 1975
• Aquinas Institute:
  • M.A. in Philosophy, 1954
  • B.A. in Philosophy, 1953

Sample Courses Taught at Providence College        

• Latin American Society
• Human Rights in Latin America
• Religion and Politics in Latin America
• Religion and Politics in the United States
• Latin American Government and Politics
• Seminars for Model Organization of American States

Unless teaching is grounded in the lives of persons at the grassroots, learning will remain an affair of ideas and books rather than questions and issues of real people.

• Writing a new work on Mobilizing for Human Rights (Kumarian Press) and organizing a volume on conversion as the engine of change in Latin America for Rutgers University Press
• Constructed three Web sites (Religion in Latin America, Las Casas, family history) and considering developing two others with a student assistant: (corruption and human rights and the Latin American Tradition of Human Rights)

• Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio - Professor and Director, Hispanic Studies,  1985-1993
• Yale University Graduate School - Visiting Professor, 1991-1992
• Aquinas Institute of Theology - Academic Dean, Vice President, and Professor, 1976-79
• University of Pittsburgh - Assistant Professor and Assistant Director: Center for Latin American Studies, 1973-76; Editor, Estudios Andinos, 1971-76
• Bolivian Institute of Social Study and Action, La Paz, Bolivia - President, 1969-71

Publication Highlights

• Co-editor and co-author, Repesenting God at the Statehouse: Religion and Politics in the American States (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).
• "The Transformation of Latin American Christianity, c1950-2000," in Hugh McLeod, ed., The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 9, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
• Co-editor and co-author, Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005).
• The Struggle for Human Rights In Latin America (Westport, CT,:  Praeger Books, 1997).
• Co-author, co-editor, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996).
• Co-author and co-editor, Conflict and Competition: Religion and Politics in Latin America (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992).
• Editor, Born of the Poor (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990).
• Crisis and Change: The Church in Latin America Today (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1985).

Selected Scholarly Presentations and Activities

• Invited Participant, Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace. International Congress on the theme of Corruption and the Poor, the Vatican, 2006.
• Organizer and Chair, "The Future of the Catholic Church in Latin America" panel at Latin American Studies International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006.
• Organizer and Chair, "New Voice in Latin American Religion, " panel at Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Washington 2001.
• Co-Organizer and Chair, "Religion at the Millennium," Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Miami, 2000. Papers given, Chicago, 1998 and Guadalajara, 1997.
• Organized panels and delivered papers at American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta 1999; Boston, 1998: and Washington, 1997.

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