Books
Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025). Find the Introduction (uncorrected page proofs) here.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Spaces of Suffering: Religious Transit in São Paulo’s Devotion to Souls.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 86, no. 4 (November 2018): 989–1013.
Encyclopedia Articles
“The Chapel of Our Lady of the Afflicted.” World Religions and Spirituality Project. Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University, 2020.
“All Souls’ Day.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, edited by Henri Gooren. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.
“Novenas (Catholic Prayer Tradition).” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, edited by Henri Gooren. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Book Reviews
Review of Moral Majorities Across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right, by Benjamin A. Cowan, History of Religions 63, no. 4 (May 2023).
Review of A Goddess in Motion: Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza, by Roger Canals, Nova Religio 23, no. 4 (May 2020): 113–15.
Review of Crescent Over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latino USA. Edited by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona, Paulo G. Pinto, and John Tofik Karam, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85, no. 4 (December 2017): 1163–66.
Review of Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions, by Elizabeth Pérez, Nova Religio 21, no. 2 (November 2017): 121–23.
Public Scholarship
“Saudade: the ‘untranslatable’ word for the presence of absence.” Aeon: A World of Ideas (October 2018). Republished at Big Think, Erraticus, ➰➰➰.
Translated into Ukranian as “Саудаде – неперекладне слово для наявности відсутности," Krytyka, 3-4 (April 2019): 38-39.
Under Review
“The Ghosts of Liberty: Notes on the Specters of São Paulo.” Anthropology of Consciousness.