48. Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Latin America.

My guest today is Amy Erica Smith. Amy is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University in the US. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The key focus of her research is, in her own words, how ordinary people understand and engage in politics. Her key topical foci are public opinion and religion and politics and her primary regional expertise is Latin America, in particular Brazil. In 2019 she p...