Dr. Kenneth P. Serbin Professor & Chair PhD, University of California, San Diego Teaching and research specialties: Modern Latin America, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina

Office: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ) 263A
Hours, Spring 2009: Tuesday 10:00-12:00, Thursday 8:00-11:00
Phone: (619) 260-4037
Email:  kserbin@sandiego.edu
Website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kserbin/

Selected publications:

• "Mainstreaming the Revolutionaries: National Liberating Action and the Shift from Resistance to Democracy in Brazil, 1964-Present," in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Moving from War to Peace, eds. Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg (New York: Routledge, 2009).
• Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). Winner of the 2007 Book Prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. Published in Brazil as Padres, celibato e conflito social: uma história da Igreja católica no Brasil (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008).
• Co-editor with Célia Cosa and Dulce Pandolfi, O bispo de Volta Redonda: memórias de Dom Waldyr Calheiros (Rio de Janeiro: Editora de Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2001).
• Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000); Diálogos na sombra: bispos e militares, tortura e justica social na ditadura (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2001). Winner of the 2003 Book Prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
• “Memory and Method in the Emerging Historiography of Latin America’s Authoritarian Era,” Latin American Politics and Society 48:3 (winter 2006), 185-198.
• “Igreja e militares: a voz dos que não têm voz,” História Viva, series “Temas Brasileiros,” No. 2 (November 2005), 16-23.
• “The Lone Brazilianist: Ten Ways for Meeting the Challenge of Brazilian Studies’ Minority Role,” LASA Forum 36:2 (summer 2005), 10-11.
• “Do autoritarismo à democracia: mapeando a longa evolução dos militares brasileiros,” in CPDOC 30 anos (Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV; CPDOC, 2003), 121-29.
• “Dom Hélder Câmara: Father of the Brazilian Church of the Poor,” in The Human Tradition in Brazil, ed. Peter Beattie (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 2004), 249-66.
• “Dom Hélder Câmara: pai do catolicismo progressista brasileiro,” in Perfis cruzados: trajetórias e militância política no Brasil do século XX, ed. Beatriz Kushnir (Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 2002), 141-74.
• “The Catholic Church, Religious Pluralism, and Democracy in Brazil,” in Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes, eds. Timothy Power and Peter Kingstone (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), 144-61. (Also published in Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 263, Feb. 1999).
• “Brazil: Religious Tolerance, Church-State Relations, and the Challenge of Pluralism,” in Evangelization and Religious Freedom in Latin America, ed. Paul E. Sigmund (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999), 204-19.
• “The Anatomy of a Death: Human Rights, Repression, and the Case of Alexandre Vannucchi Leme in Authoritarian Brazil,” Journal of Latin American Studies 30 (1998), 1-33. (Also published in Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 248, January 1998, and [Portuguese version] Teoria e Pesquisa, Nos. 20-23 [1997], 1-23).
• “Um episódio esquecido da repressão,” in Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos: Reparação ou Impunidade?, ed. Janaína Teles (São Paulo: Editora Humanitas), 99-105. (Also published in Folha de São Paulo, March 30, 1997, section “Mais,” p. 12, and Jornal do DCE [University of São Paulo], April 1998, “Suplemento Cultural,” 2-3).
• "Church-State Reciprocity in Contemporary Brazil: The Convening of the International Eucharistic Congress of 1955 in Rio de Janeiro,” Hispanic American Historical Review (Nov. 1996), 721-51. (Also published in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 229, August 1996).
• “O diálogo secreto de bispos e generais nos anos da repressão,” Estado de São Paulo, Caderno X, March 3, 1996.
• “Brazil: State Subsidization and the Church Since 1930,” in Organized Religion in the Political Transformation of Latin America, ed. Satya Pattnayak (New York: University Press of America, 1995), 153-75.
• "Collor's Impeachment and the Struggle for Change," North-South Focus, Vol. II, No. 2, 1993.
• "Latin America's Catholic Church: Religious Rivalries and the North-South Divide," North-South Issues, Vol. II, No. 1, 1993.
• "Catholic Institutions and State Subsidies: A Contribution to the Economic and Political History of the Brazilian Church," Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper No. 181, 1992.
• "Os seminários: crise, experiências, síntese," in Catolicismo: modernidade e tradição, ed. Pierre Sanchis (São Paulo: Edições Paulinas, 1992), 91-151.
• "Igreja, estado e a ajuda financeira pública no Brasil, 1930-1964: estudos de três casos chaves," Textos CPDOC (Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 1991).
• "Dom Antônio Celso Queiroz (entrevista)," Comunicações do ISER, year 9 (1990), No. 38, pp. 77-79.
• "O silêncio da mídia norte-americana," Comunicações do ISER, year 9 (1990), No. 38, pp. 27-29.