Dr Pedro Feitoza is Lecturer in Latin American Christianity and joined the School of Divinity Pedro Feitoza Where are you from? I was born in Goiânia, in the centre of Brazil, but moved to Brasilia as a child. How did that shape you? My parents were musical evangelists. I spent a lot of my childhood travelling around Brazil in a VW Kombi with their band. That gave me a great interest in music, and in Brazilian evangelicalism. What kind of student were you? I was more interested in music than studying, but I became fascinated by social history in the last year of my undergraduate degree. What's the biggest misconception about your field? That Brazilian evangelicals in history were all conservative and imperialistic, and served foreign interests to disrupt local cultures. What drew you to New College? The intellectual community, especially the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. Tell us about someone who has influenced your career so far My PhD supervisor at Cambridge, Professor David Maxwell. I was shy about my ideas, but he encouraged me to have confidence in them. How would you like to be remembered? As a teacher who encourages his students to feel confident in their ideas, and make their own contributions to the field. This article was published on 2026-02-06
