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David Smilde (born September 23, 1966) is an American sociologist and the Charles A and Leo M Favrot Professor at Tulane University,[1] and Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America.[2] He is known for his contributions to the sociology of religion and scholarship and advocacy around Venezuela's political crisis.[1][2][3]

Career[edit]

Smilde graduated from Calvin College with a BA in philosophy and sociology in 1989 and received his MA in 1994 and PhD in 2000 from the University of Chicago.[4] He completed his dissertation under Wendy Griswold. In 1995, he received a Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship and in 2006 was named a Fulbright Scholar to teach at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.[5]

His 2007 book Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism won the 2008 Best Book Award in the Sociology of Religion section of the American Sociological Association.[6] He has also won best article awards from the Sociology of Religion Section and the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

From 2011 to 2018, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Qualitative Sociology.[7] From 2015 to 2018, he was a part of the International Panel on Social Progress and co-authored the report's chapter on religion.[8]

In 2012, he founded the blog Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights and curated it for the Washington Office on Latin America until 2020.[9] From 2010 to 2012, he was chair of the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.[10] He is the program co-chair of the 2023 Latin American Studies Association Congress in Vancouver.[11] He has been a residential fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, in 2001 and 2020.[12]

Contributions[edit]

Smilde became an important voice advocating for democracy in Venezuela, frequently commenting in the media and writing numerous opinion articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, and El País.[10] In March 2017, he testified in a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Venezuela, advocating against sanctions.[3] His Venezuela advocacy has been criticized from the right and the left. In the Venezuelan blog Caracas Chronicles, Juan Cristobal Nagel criticized Smilde's analysis saying it “passing off government propaganda as cold analysis under the veneer of impartiality."[13] In Jacobin, Daniel Finn argued that Smilde criticizes the possibility of military intervention but is simply advocating "for intervention of a different kind."[14]

Works[edit]

  • Smilde, David, Veronica Zubillaga and Rebecca Hanson (eds.). 2022. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime and Revolution. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.[15]
  • Smilde, David and Hugo Pérez Hernáiz (eds.). 2021. Postsecularismo y la religion vivida: aportes desde la sociología cualitativa norteamericana. (Edited volume with 12 peer-reviewed Qualitative Sociology articles translated into Spanish, and an original introduction). Caracas: abediciones, Universidad Católica ÁndresBello Press.
  • Bender, Courtney, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt and David Smilde (eds). 2012. Religion on the Edge: Decentering and Recentering the Sociology of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.[16][17]
  • Smilde, David and Daniel Hellinger (eds). 2011. Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy. Durham NC: Duke University Press.[18][19]
  • Smilde, David. 2007. Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. Berkeley: University of California Press.[20][21]
  • López Maya, Margarita, David Smilde, and Keta Stephany. 2002. Protesta y Cultura en Venezuela: Los Marcos de Acción Colectiva en 1999. Caracas: FACES-UCV / CENDES / FONACIT.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "David A. Smilde". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts.
  2. ^ a b "David Smilde, WOLA Senior Fellow". WOLA.
  3. ^ a b "WOLA's David Smilde Testifies on Venezuela Before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee". WOLA.
  4. ^ Smilde, David. "Smilde Curriculum Vitae 2021" (PDF). Tulane University School of Liberal Arts.
  5. ^ Jones, Wendy. "UGA faculty receive Fulbright Scholar grants". UGA Today. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  6. ^ "The Sociology of Religion Section's Distinguished Book Award". American Sociological Association.
  7. ^ "David Smilde". Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
  8. ^ "Authors". International Panel on Social Progress. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  9. ^ "About". Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights.
  10. ^ a b "David Smilde". Responsible Statecraft.
  11. ^ "About LASA2023". LASA 2023.
  12. ^ "David Smilde". Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
  13. ^ Nagel, Juan Cristobal. “Truth another casualty of the Serra murders,” Caracas Chronicles, October 6, 2014. Truth another casualty of the Serra murders | Caracas Chronicles
  14. ^ Finn, Daniel. “No Room for Debate.” Jacobin, February 2018. No Room for Debate (jacobin.com)
  15. ^ Lupu, Noam (April 2024). "Smilde, David, Zubillaga, Verónica, and Hanson, Rebecca (eds.) (2022) The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing During Chavismo, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), xii + 330 pp. $55.00 hbk". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 43 (2): 206–207. doi:10.1111/blar.13564. ISSN 0261-3050.
  16. ^ Gleig, Ann (December 2015). "Religion on the Edge: De‐Centering and Re‐Centering the Sociology of Religion. Edited by CourtneyBender, WendyCadge, PeggyLevitt, and DavidSmilde. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 297. $33.95". Religious Studies Review. 41 (4): 178–179. doi:10.1111/rsr.12252. ISSN 0319-485X.
  17. ^ Roberts, Martha Smith (2 October 2015). "Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion, edited by Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, and David Smilde, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, xii + 297 pp. ISBN 978-019-993862-9, US$105.00 (hardback); ISBN 978-019-993864-3, US$29.95 (paperback)". Religion. 45 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.1036720. ISSN 0048-721X.
  18. ^ Heath, Oliver (2012). "Review of Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Chávez". Journal of Latin American Studies. 44 (3): 585–587. ISSN 0022-216X.
  19. ^ Jefferson, Ann (2013). "Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez ed. by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger (review)". The Latin Americanist. 57 (3): 108–110. ISSN 1557-203X.
  20. ^ Burdick, John S. (May 2008). "Reviews - David Smilde, Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007), pp. xv+262, £13.95, pb". Journal of Latin American Studies. 40 (2): 356–357. doi:10.1017/S0022216X08004173. ISSN 1469-767X.
  21. ^ Bartkowski, John P. (2008). "Review of Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism". American Journal of Sociology. 113 (6): 1753–1755. doi:10.1086/590987. ISSN 0002-9602.
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