Education:

Doctoral Dissertation (June 1982): "The Origins of the Carioca Belle Epoque: The Emergence of the Elite Culture and Society of Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro."

Advisor at Yale and Stanford: Richard M. Morse

1978-1982 Stanford University, Ph.D. (Latin American History).

1976-1978 Yale University, M.A. (Latin American and Colonial African History).

1972-1974 University of California at Berkeley, A.B.(History), with "Great Distinction in General Scholarship."

1970-1972 University of California at Santa Cruz, transferred

Employment:

Regular Academic Positions:

From 2007 Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

1989-2007  Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

1987-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

1982-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon (on leave 1985-1987)

Administrative Positions:
2004-2006 Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, University of Florida
1985-1987 Program Associate, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Visiting Academic Positions:
Spring 1997 Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e Ciência Política, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil.
Spring 1994 Visiting Professor of Brazilian Studies, Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Latijns Amerika, Royal University of Leiden, TheNetherlands.
1986-1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of America.

Publications (select):

[N.B. works marked with an asterisk are works previously published]

Books:

The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. [see Honors and  Awards, below].

*Belle Epoque Tropical: Sociedade e cultura de elite no Rio de Janeiro na virada do século. Trans. Celso Nogueira. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1993.

A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge Latin American Studies, 62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Chapters in Books:

*"Rebellion against Vaccination in Rio de Janeiro," in Vincent C. Peloso, ed., Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003: 25-61.

*"The Revolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against 'Modernization' in Belle-Epoque Rio de Janeiro," in Sylvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll, eds., Revolts in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765-1910. Boulder: Sage, 1996: 155-89.

"Brasilien, 1830-1889," in Raymond Buve and John Fisher, eds.,Handbuch der Geschichte Lateinamerikas, 3 vols. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1992, 2: 441-97.

"La Sublime Puerta: La influencia francesa sobre la literatura y los literatos brasileños , 1808-1930," in Jorge E. Hardoy and Richard P. Morse, eds., Nuevas perspectivas en los estudios sobre historia urbana latinoamericana . Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1989: 169-82.

*"La belle époque carioca en concreta: Las reformas urbanas de Rio de Janeiro bajo la dirección de Pereira Passos," in Richard Morse and Jorge Enrique Hardoy, comps., Cultura urbana latinoamericana. Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 1985: 113-44.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

"Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade in 1850: Historiography, Slave Agency, and Statesmanship," Journal of Latin American Studies , 33:4 (November 2001): 689-711.

"Provincial Origins of the State: Rio de Janeiro, the Monarchy, and Brazilian Political Organization, 1808-1853, " Latin American Research Review, 36:3 (fall 2001): 132-53.

"Party Formation and State-Making: The Conservative Party and the Reconstruction of the Brazilian Monarchy: 1831-1840," Hispanic American Historical Review, 81:2 (May 2001): 259-308.

"Optimism and Melancholy: Elite Response to the fin-de-siècle bonaerense," Journal of LatinAmerican Studies, 31:3 (October 1999):551-88.

"The Domestic Civilizing Mission: The Cultural Role of the State in Brazil, 1808-1930," Luso-Brazilian Review, 36:1 (Summer 1999):1-18.

"Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Public Space and Public Consciousness in Fin-de-Siècle Latin America," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37:3 (July 1995): 519-540.

"Identity, Race, Gender, and Modernity in the Origins of Gilberto Freyre's Oeuvre," American Historical Review, 100:1 (Feb. 1995): 51-77.

"History, Race, and the State in the Thought of Oliveira Viana," Hispanic American Historical Review, 75:1 (Feb. 1995): 1-30.

"A Liberal Embraces Monarchy: Joaquim Nabuco and Conservative Historiography," The Americas, 48:2 (Oct. 1991): 159-180.

*"A Ascenção do Fetichismo Consumista," Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 3:8 (Oct. 1988): 39-58.

"The Revolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against 'Modernization' in Belle-Epoque Rio de Janeiro," Hispanic American Historical Review, 67:2 (May 1987): 233-270.

"Making the Carioca Belle Epoque Concrete: The Urban Reforms of Rio de Janeiro Under Pereira Passos," Journal of UrbanHistory, 10:4 (August 1984): 383-421.

"Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the Century: Modernization and the Parisian Ideal," Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, 25:1 (Feb. 1983): 83-104.

Honors and Awards (select):

Warren Dean Memorial Prize, 2006& 2007, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), for The Party of Order.

Roberto Reis Book Award, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), 2007, for The Party of Order.

American Philosophical Society, Grant, summer 2007.

John K. Mahon Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of History, University of Florida, 2003-2004.

Fulbright (CIES) lecturer/researcher award, 1996-1997.

Social Science Research Council, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997.

American Philosophical Society, Grant, summer 1996.

Teaching Improvement Program award, 1995.

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-1991.

American Philosophical Society, Grant, summer 1988.

Social Science Research Council, International Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1979-1980. (Joint with Fulbright award below.)

Fulbright-Hays Commission, International Study Grant, 1979-1980.

Mary Cady Tew Prize, Department of History, Yale University, 1977.

Danforth Fellowship, 1976-1982.

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley, 1974.
 

Professional Service (select):

Journals:

Member, Conselho Consultativo, Acervo: Revista do Arquivo Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), 2004-present.

Member, Advisory Board, Luso-Brazilian Review, since 2000.

Member, Advisory Board, História, Cultura, Ciência: Manguinhos (Rio de Janeiro), since 1998.

Book Review Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1988-1990

University:

Member, Graduate Council, Graduate School of the University of Florida, 2006-2009.

Member, Advisory Council, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida 2005-2006.

Coordinator for History, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, since 1992.

Member, Executive Council, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1992-1993.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Latin American History; History of Latin America to 1750; History of Latin America, 1750-1880; History of Latin America, 1880 to the Present.

History of Mexico; Imperial Brazil; History of the Caribbean and Central America; History of Brazil to 1750; History of Brazil after 1750; History of Amazonia.

Honors Seminar on Latin American History; Junior Colloquium on Latin American History.

Graduate Seminar on Comparative Slavery; Graduate Seminar on Brazilian Historiography; Graduate Seminar on Latin American Intellectual History; Graduate Seminar on Ideology and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America; Graduate Seminar on Historical Methodology; Graduate Seminar on Social and Political Thought in Brazil.