The Catholic University of America

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

September 1990-Present Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

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 AND

REVIEWS "The Admission of New Christians and Asians to the Society of Jesus, 1540-1773", in Company, forthcoming, 2009.

"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 Evrard 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 Portugesa 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