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