Building Bridges, Not Walls: Nourishing Diverse Cultures in Faith. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016.
Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders.College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2002.
“Transversality and Mestizaje: Moving Beyond the Purification-Resistance Impasse” in Political Phenomenology: Essays in Memory of Petee Jung, eds., Hwa You Jung & Lester Embree (Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016, 305-21)
“Recasting ‘Unity-in-Diversity’ From La Frontera in Light of the Augustinian Accent on Radical Plurality,” Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice, 6 (2014) 1-27.
“Religious Periodicals and Presidential Elections, 1992-2008,” Journal of Media, and Religion, 11 (August 2012), 156-76.
“The Three Paradigms of Mestizaje: Realizing Democracy in a Transnational World of Crossing Borders,” Portularia: Journal of Social Work, 8 (2008 - #2): 33-47.
“Contra el choque de civilizaciones: la posibilidad de una democracia mestiza,” Información Pública 4,1 (Santiago: Universidad Santo Tomás, 2006), 207-31.
"The Interreligious Dimension: A Global Ethic of Peace" in Concilium: The Return of the Just War (2001/2), 52-61.
"Hannah Arendt" in An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy, eds., Jenny Teichman and Graham White, (London: Macmillan Press, Second Edition 1998, 158-68).
American Politics
Global Politics
US Latino Politics
Religion and Politics
Political Ideologies
Past Service on Advocacy Committee, Houston Catholic Charities
Past Service on the Houston Holocaust Museum Education Committee
Informal Consultant to Political and Social Justice Groups in Pennsylvania and Texas
I have directed church music ensembles in South Bend, IN; San Marcos, TX; Cleveland, MS; Houston, TX; and now San Antonio, TX. I also directed the music for the Mass at the Houston International Festival, 2001 – Focus on Ireland.
