Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Rachel Harding has published an essay on connections between the African American spirituals tradition and African-based ritual practices in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil. The essay, "Você tem direito à árvore da vida: spirituals afro-americanas e religiões da diáspora," is published in Portuguese in the collection Diaspora Africana nas Americas, edited by historians Isabel Reis and Solange Pereira da Rocha and published by Fino Traço Editora in Brazil.