Phone: (909) 621-8395 Campus Address: Athenaeum 216 Curriculum Vitae
		Current Course Schedule FHS TTh- 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM  RHS 104 RLST 138 W- 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM  RHS 104

Educational Background

Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara; M.Ed. Harvard; M.Div. Princeton; César Chávez Dissertation Year Fellow - Dartmouth College; Postdoctoral, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

Teaching Interests

• American Religions; U.S. Latino Religions & Politics; Religion, Race & Civil Rights Mov't; Religion & Presidency; Religion, Politics, & Global Violence; Mystics, Prophets, & Social Change; Religion & Film; History of Christianity

Selected Professional Activities

• Chair, Department of Religious Studies & Chair, 5 Colleges Religious Studies Program
• President, La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion, American Academy of Religion
• Co-Editor, Columbia University Press Series in Religion & Politics
• Director, Latino Religions & Politics National Survey (n = 1,104), October 2008
• Manager, Pew Hispanic Churches in American Public Life (n = 3,000), 1999-2002
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts, U.C. Santa Barbara
• Lectures: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Chicago, Notre Dame, University of Paris, Ecoles Institute, CERI, Oxford, Northwestern, UCLA, USC, National Press Club, BBC World News
• Publications: Latino Religions and the 2008 Election; Religion and the American Presidency; Religion, Race, and the American Presidency; Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture; Rethinking Latino/a Religions and Identity; Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States