Erika Helgen

Erika Helgen is a historian of Latin American religion. Her research and teaching interests include Brazilian religious history, the history of Latin American Protestantism, religion and migration, the rise of religious pluralism in Latin America, and religious violence. Her book, Religious Conflict in Brazil: Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century(link is external) was published by Yale University Press in 2020. She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2015. Before joining the Yale faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John’s University.