Garry G. Sparks

Garry Sparks is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He focuses on ethnohistorical understandings of theological production in the Americas, particularly by Indigenous peoples. His areas include critical histories of Christian thought, religions of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, religion in Latin America, and theories of religion and culture. He specifically attends to the periods of first contact between Native Mesoamericans and Iberian missionaries in the sixteenth-century. His research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Philosophical Society.