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Philip J. Williams
Professor
Political Science
Anderson 221
Phone: (352) 273-2369
Fax: (352) 392-8127
pjw@ufl.edu

Office hours
M 8:45-11:45 am, T 10:30-11:30 am, 1:00-2:00 pm, Th 10:30-11:30 am

Recent Publications

Articles

 

“Iglesias y espacios públicos: Lugares de identidad de mexicanos en Metro Atlanta,”

Trayectorias 26 (January-June 2008).

 

“Más allá de Miami: religión y migración en Florida”, (co-authored with Timothy Steigenga) in Aldo Panfichi, ed. Migraciones Internacionales (Lima, Peru: PUCP - Fondo Editorial, 2007).

 

“Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000,” (co-authored with Charles Wood and Kuniko Chijiwa), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2007).

 

"Religion and Social Capital among Mexican Immigrants in Southwest Florida," Latino Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2007).

"Introduction: The Power of Religious Identities in the Americas," (co-authored with Manuel Vásquez) Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2005.

"Catholic Responses to the Crisis of Everyday Life in Lima, Peru," (co-authored with Vilma Fuentes), Journal of Church and State, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Winter 2000).

Chapters in Books

"The Limits of Reformism: The Rise and Decline of Christian Democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala," (co-authored with Gullermina Seri) in Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully (eds.) Christian Democracy in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2003).

"El Salvador: Revolt and Negotiated Transition," (co-authored with Shawn Bird), in Thomas Walker and Ariel Armony (eds.) Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000).

"Antipolitics in El Salvador, 1948-1994," (co-authored with Knut Walter), in Brian Loveman and Thomas Davies (eds.) The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America, Scholarly Resources, 1997.

"The Sound of Tambourines: The Politics of Pentecostal Growth in El Salvador," in Edward Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino (eds.) Power, Politics and Pentecostals in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996).

Books

 

A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations, edited with Tim Steigenga and Manuel Vásquez (New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2009)

Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas , co-edited with Anna Peterson and Manuel Vasquez (Rutgers University Press, 2001).

Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador’s Transition to Democracy , with Knut Walter (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).

 

 

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