Philip J. Williams
Professor
Ph.D., Oxford, 1986
Co-Director, Latino Immigrants in Florida Project
Email:pjw@polisci.ufl.edu
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Philip Williams received his D.Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford in 1986. His major research interests are religion and politics, democratization, social movements, civil-military relations, and transnational migration. He is author of The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Macmillan 1989), Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy (University of Pittsburgh 1997), and co-editor of Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas Rutgers University 2001). His scholarly work has appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals such as Comparative Politics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and Journal of Church and State. Williams has received a number of prestigious fellowships and grants from Fulbright, North-South Center, United States Institute of Peace, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Recently he received a major grant from the Ford Foundation to support a three-year study on religion and transnational migration in Florida.
