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Faculty Profile
Williams, Derek, Ph.D. Stony Brook
Assistant Professor, UTM
(905) 828-3744
Office: UTM 239
Field: 19th and 20th century Latin America, particularly histories of religion, nationmaking, state formation and race
Derek Williams is a specialist in the modern history of Latin America, with a particular interest in religion, nationmaking, state formation and race in the nineteenth century. His articles on the political and cultural history of postindependence Ecuador have appeared in various collections and journals, including the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Historical Sociology, and Procesos. His first book is A Truly Catholic Nation: Religion and modernity in Nineteenth-Century Ecuador (forthcoming). Professor Williams is currently researching Catholic engagements with modernity and the modernization of the Catholic Church in nineteenth-century Latin America.
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