Matthew Casey earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Religious Studies at the College of Charleston (2009) and the University of California, Riverside (2011). At Riverside, he combined historical and ethnographic methodologies in his research on the intersections of Catholic performance and ethnic identity in Cusco, Peru. Matthew is currently a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. His dissertation project, The liberty we need: Evangelicals and the Church-State Complex in Peru, focuses on the role that Protestants played in challenging the political and social dominance of the Catholic Church throughout the twentieth century. His interest in the multinational dimension of evangelical missions has led to archival research on the so-called Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California (1906 and 1915) and the tumultuous formation of the global Pentecostal movement. Matthew brings a historical and transnational perspective to religious innovation and pluralism in California. Matthew is the director of the Senor de los Milagros Humanities Lab for the RIDAGA festivals project.