Dr. Rose Caraway  

  

Rose T. Caraway, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Riles 110
(928) 523-6212
Rose.Caraway@nau.edu

 

 

Dr. Rose Tilida Caraway grew up in Austin, Texas.  She attended the University of Texas at Austin, obtaining a B.A. in Latin American Studies in 2003.  Her formative years at UT-Austin included study abroad programs in both Cuba and Brazil.  In 2006, she received her M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans.  She then pursued the Religion in the Americas doctoral program at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and received her Ph.D. in 2011. 

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Caraway is currently the C.W. & Modene Neely Visiting Assistant Professor of Christianity in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at NAU. 

Dr. Caraway’s areas of research include Global Christianity, Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean, and religious revivals in post-Soviet areas of transition.  She is currently developing her dissertation into a book manuscript, entitled A New Hope: Religion and Social Change in post-Soviet Cuba.  Dr. Caraway has traveled to Cuba for the past twelve years, and has conducted extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on contemporary religious revivals in Cuba since 2005.  In addition, she also has research experience in Afro-Cuban religions, the Cuban Revolution, and Cuba’s political economy.  She has presented her work at numerous regional, national, and international conferences, including the American Academy of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Latin American Studies Association.

Currently, Dr. Caraway is developing a summer study abroad program to Cuba through the University of Havana and the Center for International Education at NAU.