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Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Pérez comes to the Religion Department after teaching, most recently, at Carleton College. She is an historian of religions specializing in African-influenced traditions of the Caribbean and Latin America, such as Haitian Vodou and Brazilian Candomblé. She received her bachelor’s degree in religion and cultural studies from Hampshire College in 1997, and her M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2010) from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her publications include articles and several reviews. She is currently at work on her first book, based on doctoral research conducted in a predominantly Black community of Afro-Cuban Lucumí, Espiritismo, and Palo Monte practitioners on the South Side of Chicago. Her new research project examines the challenges of transgender and transsexual people as religious actors in the contemporary United States.
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Winter 2014
Spring 2014
