Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Jennifer Scheper Hughes is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside where she is founding co-director of the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion. She writes and teaches on the subject of Latin American religions, indigenous Christianity, material religion, and the history of Liberation Theology. Her book, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local faith from the Conquest to the Present was published in 2010 (Oxford University press). She is currently completing a three year research project on the history of the Second Vatican Council in Mexico.