Samuel Garcia
I'm a graduate of St. John's College (Annapolis, MD) and Harvard Divinity School and came to Yale in 2003 to work with Carlos Eire, my dissertation advisor. I'm generally interested in the Reformation and Catholic/Counter-Reformation and, more particularly, in the theological and practical development of Catholicism in early modern Spain.
Orals fields: Early Modern Spain (Carlos Eire), Reformation Europe (Ronald Rittgers), and Colonial Latin America (Stuart Schwartz).
My dissertation, "The Sacrament of Penance in Early Modern Spain, 1500-1650,"
focuses on the development of a ritual (sacramental penance) whose use and promotion came to (re)define Catholic identity in the period and whose rejection also played a pivotal role in an emerging Protestant identity.
Other interests include playing the guitar, German, and llamas.
