Thomas M. Cohen
EDUCATION Stanford University
History, Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985
Amherst College
History, B.A. 1979
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural and religious history of colonial Latin America and early modern Europe; Christian-Jewish relations, 1500-1800; comparative history of European empires.
Current research: Jews and Jesuits
EMPLOYMENT
Director, Oliveira Lima Library, November 2010--; Curator, Oliveira Lima, September 1990-November 2010
Associate Professor of History, September 1996--; Assistant Professor of History, September 1990-August 1996; Visiting Assistant Professor of History, January 1990-May 1990; Curator, Oliveira Lima Library, September 1990--
BOOKS
The Fire of Tongues: António Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal (Stanford University Press, 1998)
EDITED PUBLICATIONS
Co-editor (with Stuart B. Schwartz), António Vieira and the Luso-Brazilian Baroque, special issue, Luso-Brazilian Review 40:1 (Summer 2003)
Co-editor (with Dain Borges), Reflections on Culture and Ideology in the Americas: Essays in Honor of Richard M. Morse, special issue, Luso-Brazilian Review 32:2 (Winter 1995)
ARTICLES
“Jesuit Missions in the Early Modern World,” forthcoming in Hamish Scott, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern History, c. 1350-1750 (2 vols., Oxford University Press, 2014-15)
“A admissão de minorias raciais e étnicas na Companhia de Jesus, 1540-1773,” in João Adolfo Hansen, Adma Muhana and Hélder Garmes, ed., Estudos sobre Vieira (São Paulo: Ateliê Editorial, 2012)
"Minorías raciales y étnicas en la Compañía de Jesús,” in Julián Lozano Navarro, ed., Conflictividad y conflictividades en el universo barroco (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2010)
"Jesuits and New Christians: The Contested Legacy of St. Ignatius," in Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 42/3 (Autumn, 2010) 1-46
“Clerical Matters,” in Company 26:3 (2009) 10-13 ; reprinted in Jivan (Gujarat, India)
“Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Society of Jesus,” in Thomas Worcester, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 199-214
"Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Society of Jesus," in Thomas Worcester, S.J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 199-214
"Nation, Lineage, and Jesuit Unity in Antonio Possevino's Appeal to Everard Mercurian (1576)," in José Adriano Freitas de Carvalho, ed., A Companhia de Jesus na Península Ibérica, Séculos XVI e XVII: Espiritualidade e Cultura (Porto: Universidade do Porto, 2004) 543-561
Introduction; "Judaism and the History of the Church in the Inquisition Trial of António Vieira;" Review, António Vieira, Os Autos do Processo de Vieira na Inquisição, ed. Adma Muhana (São Paulo: Editora da Universidade Estadual Paulista; Bahia: Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, 1995), Antonio Vieira, Apologia das coisas profetizadas, ed. Adma Muhana (Lisbon: Edições Cotovia 1994), and António Vieira, Sermões, ed. Alcir Pécora (2 vols., São Paulo: Editora Hedra, 200-2001), in Thomas M. Cohen and Stuart B. Schwartz, eds., António Vieira and the Luso-Brazilian Baroque, special issue, Luso-Brazilian Review 40:1 (Summer 2003) 1-6, 67-78, 110-115
"António Vieira na Bahia, 1688-1691: As Exhortações pregadas no colégio da Companhia de Jesus," in Actas do Congresso Internacional do III Centenário do Padre António Vieira (Three vols. Braga, Portugal: Universidade Católica Portuguesa/ Província Portuguesa da Companhia de Jesus, 1999) II, 1037-50
"'Who is my neighbor?' The Missionary Ideals of Manuel da Nóbrega," in Joseph A. Gagliano and Charles R. Ronan, S.J., eds., Jesuit Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Chroniclers, Geographers, Educators and Missionaries in the Americas, 1549-1767 (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1997) 209-28
