Maria Enedina holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (2002) and a Master's degree in English from Millersville University of Pennsylvania (1992).  She taught English as a Second Language at the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Florida (1992-1994) and later Portuguese as a Foreign Language at the University of Florida (1994-2001).  She taught Anthropology and Brazilian History and Culture at the University of Fortaleza (2003-2009).  She was a Scholar In-Residence at Millersville University of Pennsylvania (2008), and a visiting scholar at Campbellsville University and Cottey College (2009). In 2010 she worked as a researcher at Idaho State University in a project entitled “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS” [acronym: SOCNET], funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. She is currently researching what role new technologies and increased connectivity play in today’s society, examining what iPods, iPads, blogs, and social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, are doing to human relationships. In the past, Dr. Bezerra wrote on religion in Brazil, especially on the reasons that lead so many Brazilians to seek Spiritism as their religion of choice.