Profile

Diego Mauricio Cortés is an Assistant Professor of Global Media at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. His research intersects alternative and community media, Latin American indigenous studies, religious studies, and popular culture. Through this multidisciplinary practice, he inquires about formations of contemporary indigeneities in the Andes, transnational evangelicalism, American whiteness, and media representations of the war on drugs.

He is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the repercussions of the rapid expansion of evangelicalism (non-denominational American Christianity and Pentecostalism) among Andean indigenous communities in Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia by analyzing oral history, archives, and ethnographic data related to indigenous Christians, American evangelical organizations, and evangelical media practices and discourses.

He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies (University of California, San Diego), an M.A. in Latin American Studies (University of California, San Diego), and a B.A. in Sociology (Hunter College, CUNY). He is a native of Bogotá, Colombia. Before coming to UO, Dr. Cortés was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford.