Updated: October 20 th, 2016 Department of Religious Studies Ph#: +1 (530) 563-6726 The jmdoran@utexas.edu 2505 University Ave., Stop A3700 Austin, TX 78712 I. EDUCATION Ph.D., 2016: The (Religious Studies) Title: The Heartfelt Spirit: capitalism, affect, and Pentecostal modernity in the Americas Supervisor: Virginia Garrard-Burnett Committee: Matthew Butler, Jennifer Graber, Arlene Sánchez-Walsh, Thomas Tweed Status: defended and accepted. M.A., 2013: The (Religious Studies) Thesis: Demon-Haunted Worlds: enchantment, disenchantment, and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. B.A., 2008: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Religious Studies) Second Major: Political Science II. HONORS AND AWARDS Summer Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, The. Summer 2016. Travel Grant, American Academy of Religion. Fall Religious Studies Department Fellowship, The. Summer UT Graduate School Named Continuing Fellowship, The. Fall 2014 - Fall College Continuing Fellowship, The. Spring Professional Development Award. Office of Graduate Studies, The. Fall Shive, Lindsay, Grey travel fellowship, The. Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant, Tulane University. Summer Professional Development Award. Office of Graduate Studies, The. Fall 2012. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant, The. Summer 2012. Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, The. 2011-2016. Chancellor s Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Riverside. 2008-2011. III. PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Book Chapters: Doran, Justin and Garrard-Burnett, Virginia. The Dynamics of Pentecostal Expansion in Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, eds. Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, David Orique, Manuel A. Vásquez. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. 1 of 5
Book Reviews: Review: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: a Church of Strangers. Nova Religio. 2016. Forthcoming. Review: Electric Santería: racial and sexual assemblages of transnational religion. Nova Religio 20, no. 1 (Aug 2016). Review: The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions. Nova Religio 18, no. 3 (Feb 2015): 131-32. Review: The Holy Spirit: A Guide to Christian Theology. Pneuma 36, no. 1 (Jan 2014): 121-22. IV. PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures: The Legion of Blood and the Seven Crossroads: the Pentecostal exorcism of Brazilian spirits. Public Lecture at Texas State University, at the invitation of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Conference Presentations: The Circulation of Pentecostal Modernity in the Americas. (Poster session) American Historical Association. Denver, Colorado. (forthcoming) 2017. Reforming Prosperity: The Brazilian Origins of a Latin American Prosperity Gospel. American Society of Church History. Denver, Colorado. (forthcoming) 2017. As Veias Abençoadas da América Latina: Brazilian Pentecostal Subjectivity in Houston, Texas. Latina/o Critical and Comparative Studies Group & Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group, American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, Texas. (forthcoming) 2016. Borderland Abundance: Two Visions for Christian Prosperity in Houston, Texas. Pentecostal Charismatic Movements Group, American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, Texas. (forthcoming) 2016. The Fixed Laws of Sacrifice: rethinking the prosperity gospel through Brazilian evangelicalism. From Oikonomia to Occupy: Intersections of the Religious and Economic. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. 2016. Crentes Modernos: Brasília and the failed hopes of Pentecostal modernity. XXXVI ILASSA Conference. The, Austin, Texas. Southern Cross: Pentecostal womanhood in the New and the Global South. Pentecostal Charismatic Movements Group, American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, Georgia. 2016. 2 of 5
Bayou Revival: Houston as the contact zone between the New South and the American West. Religion in the American West Group, American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, Georgia. American Pentecostals: charismatic innovations from Canada to Brazil. Evangelical and Charismatic Transformations Panel. XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR). Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. Leavening Lucy Farrow: Gender and Race in early Pentecostalism. Afro-American Religious History Group, American Academy of Religion. San Diego, California. On a Wing and a Prayer: the Canadian Roots of Brazilian neo-pentecostalism. World Christianity Group, American Academy of Religion. San Diego, California. On a Wing and a Prayer: the Canadian Roots of Brazilian neo-pentecostalism. Southwestern Commission on Religious Studies (AAR Southwestern Regional), Irving, Texas. O choro da injustiça: Biblical Sacrifice and the (Re)enchantment of post-colonial Brazil. Is the Post- Colonial Post-Secular?. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Ecclesticating Demons: Bringing Possession Performance into a Pentecostal Church. Personhood, Place, and Possession: Embodiment and Emplacement in Special Contexts. University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. Stephen T. Colbert: Medium for the Anti-Modern. Southwestern Commission on Religious Studies (AAR Southwestern Regional), Irving, Texas. Decadência: the Iconoclasm of Edir Macedo. XXXIII ILASSA Conference. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Fogueiras Santas: Transnational Sacrifice in a Pentecostal Church. Religion and the Trans-. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Demon-haunted Worlds: Spiritual Warfare from Brazil to Los Angeles. Western Commission for the Study of Religion (AAR Western Regional), Phoenix, Arizona. 2010. If the Spirit Moves You: Race and Religious Expression in early Pentecostalism. Contested Territories: Conflict, Violence and the Body. University of California, Riverside. Riverside, California. 2009. 2012. 3 of 5
V. COURSES TAUGHT Instructor of Record, History of Religion in the United States. Spring 2016. (As lecturer, forthcoming) History of Pentecostalism in the Americas. Spring Teaching Assistant, History of the U.S. since 1865. Fall, 2016. Supervisor: Michael Stoff. Evangelical Christianity. Fall, Supervisor: Chad Seales. History of Religion in the US. Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2016. Supervisor: Jennifer Graber; Thomas Tweed. Introduction to the Study of Religion. Fall, 2012. Supervisor: Thomas Tweed Religion and Environmental Ethics. Fall, 2011. Supervisor: John Traphagan Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside. Myths and Rituals. Introduction to Asian Religions. Western Religions. Introduction to the Bible. Comparative Scripture. Death. VI. AFFILIATIONS American Academy of Religion. Latin American Studies Association. American Society of Church History. American Historical Association. American Studies Association. VII. SERVICE Program Chair, History of Christianity. American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region. 2014- Present. Spokesperson, College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Task Force. The University of Texas at Austin. Conference organizer, Building Bad: the construction of evil in Religious Discourse. The, Austin, TX, 2015 Peer reviewer, Journal of Religion and Business Ethics. Peer reviewer, Review of Religious Research. 2015, 2016. Peer reviewer, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 2016. Panel respondent, Material Culture section. Beyond Binaries: Toward a Continuum Model of Religious Normativity. The. Austin, TX, Secretary, Graduate Committee for the Study of Religion. The. 2012- Webmaster, American Society for the Study of Religion. 2011-4 of 5
VIII. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES English, native. Portuguese, spoken and written: excellent. Spanish, spoken and written: advanced. IX. REFERENCES Virginia Garrard-Burnett, garrard@austin.utexas.edu Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies SRH 1.310 2300 Red River Street D0800 Austin, Texas 78712 (512) 475-7822 Thomas Tweed, ttweed@nd.edu Department of American Studies University of Notre Dame 1047 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-9721 Jennifer Graber, jgraber@austin.utexas.edu Department of Religious Studies 2505 University Ave Stop A3700 Religious Studies - BUR 533 Austin, TX 78712-1090 (512) 471-8634 Chad Seales, seales@austin.utexas.edu Department of Religious Studies 2505 University Ave Stop A3700 Religious Studies - BUR 533 Austin, TX 78712-1090 (512) 232-5929 5 of 5