Selected Publications, Articles & Presentations
BOOKS
In the Name of the Holy Office: Joaquim Marqus de Araújo, A Brazilian Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline
Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Charlatan in the Backlands: Inquisition and Imposture in Colonial Brazil," Accepted by Luso-Brazilian Review, June 2010.
"Historiography of the Structure and Functioning of the Portuguese Inquisition in Colonial Brazil," History Compass 8/7 (July 2010): 636-352.
"Jurema and batuque: Indians, Africans, and the Inquisition in Colonial Northeastern Brazil," History of Religion 46 no. 2 (November 2006): 140-161.
"Children of the Inquisition: Minors as Familiares of the Inquisition in Pernambuco, Brazil, 1613-1821," Luso-Brazilian Review 42, no. 1 (2005): 21-43.
"In the Name of the Inquisition: The Portuguese Inquisition and Delegated Authority in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil," The Americas 61, no. 1 (July 2004): 19-54.
"Celebrating St. Peter Martyr: The Inquisitional Brotherhood in Colonial Brazil," Colonial Latin American Historical Review 12, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 173-227.
"Children of the pátria: Representations of Childhood and Welfare State Ideologies at the 1922 Rio de Janeiro International Centennial Exposition," The Americas 58, no. 1 (July 2001): 65-90. Co-authored with Tamera Marko.
"Moncorvo Filho e o problema da infância: Modelos institucionais e ideológicos da assistência à infância no Brasil," Revista Brasileira de História, 19, no. 37 (July 1999): 103-124.
OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
"Confraternite, Portogallo," "Familiari, Portogallo," and "Regolamenti inquisitoriali, Portogallo in Dizionario dell'Inquisizione, ed. Adriano Prosperi (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006).
"Os familiares do número e o problema dos privilégios," A Inquisição em Xeque: temas, controvérsias, estudos de caso, eds. R. Vainfas, L. Lage and B. Feitler, (Rio de Janeiro: edUERJ, 2006), 97-112.
"World History Myopia: Indians and Trade in World History Textbooks," World History Connected 3, no. 2 (Feb. 2006).
"Comissário," "Familiares," "Inquisition-LusoAmerica," and "Jurema," in Encyclopedia of Iberian American Relations, ed. Michael Francis (ABC Clio, Fall 2005).
"Joaquim Marques de Araújo: O poder da inquisição em Pernambuco no fim do período colonial," in De Cabral a Pedro I: Aspectos da colonização Portuguesa no Brasil, ed. Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (Porto: Humbertipo, 2001), 309-328.
"Brasil en 1922, la niñez en primer plano: Nacionalismo, infancia, y la ideologia del Estado Benefactor," iifancia: Buletin do Instituto Interamericano del Niño, 235, no. 68 (April 1999): 11-32.
"Hispanic Research at Documentary Relations of the Southwest," Ancestry, 15, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1997): 18-22.
"Paulo Freire and the Danger of Conscientização," Iota Gamma Journal of History, Arizona State University, 6 (Spring 1996): 99-121.