Virginia Garrard Burnett

April 2006, Pew Forum & National Defense University

Virginia Garrard Burnett, Founding board member and Board President 2007 - 2011, researches and teaches about religious movements and ethnic identity in Latin America, with a particular interest in Central America. Professor Burnett is the author of Living in the New Jerusalem: A History of Protestants in Guatemala (1998), On Earth As It Is in Heaven: Religion in Latin America (2000), and co-editor of Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America (1993). Professor Burnett is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Religious Studies , and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies .

Professor Burnett was elected President of the Texas After Violence Project Board at its initial meeting on September 27, 2007. Although the board adopted by-laws specifying four-year terms for board members, it also decided to stagger the terms of the initial members (one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years). Professor Burnett's initial term on the board was for two years, 2007 - 2009; on September 24, 2009, the board re-elected her to serve a second term, 2009 - 2013.

Dr. Burnett resigned in April 2011, in part due to a family member's serious illness. We are deeply grateful to her for her service.