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Associate Professor

Department of Religious Studies

https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/elizabeth-perez/

About
Specialization:

I am an ethnographer and historian of Afro-Diasporic and Latin American religions. I specialize in the study of Cuban Lucumí (popularly called Santería) and other innovative systems of belief and practice that crystallized in the Americas: Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian Vodou, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Venezuelan Maria Lionza, among others.