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

Selected publications:

• Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
• Co-editor with Célia Cosa and Dulce Pandolfi, O bispo de Volta Redonda: memórias de Dom Waldyr Calheiros (Rio de Janiero: 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

Office:   Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) 268
Phone: (619) 260-4037
Email:  kserbin@sandiego.edu
Website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kserbin/