Octavio Carrasco

Dr. Octavio Pascal Carrasco is scholar of religion, culture, and music with a special interest in the processes of social change, cultural resistance, and the religious imagination. He completed his Ph.D work with Cornel West, Daisy Machado, and Troy Messenger at Union Theological Seminary in NY, focusing on “the long sixties” as a period of profound awakening in American history. He has taught at Harvard Extension School, Bellevue College and Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Octavio enjoys juggling book loans at ALL the local libraries and likes sea turtles very much.