João B. Chaves

João B. Chaves, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in the Américas. João is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and four books, including Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Baylor University Press, 2021) and The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South (Mercer University Press, 2022). He currently serves as chair of the Latinx Religions session of AAR-SW, Associate Editor of Perspectivas, and co-editor of the Perspectives on Baptist Identities Series—published by Mercer University Press. You can follow João on Twitter at @JoaoB_Chaves .