Curriculum Vitae Peter M. Beattie Michigan State University 249

Curriculum Vitae
Peter M. Beattie
249 Horton St.
Lansing, Michigan 48912
(517) 599-6347
E-mail: [email protected]
1994
1986
Michigan State University
Department of History
301 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1036
(517) 355-7500
Education
Ph.D. in Latin American History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
B.A. History (Magna Cum Laude), University of Alabama at Birmingham
2001-Present
2005-2008
1994-2001
2008
2007
2006
2005
2003
Fall 2002
May 2001
Jan. 2001
Summer 2000
May 1999
Fall 1998
1997
June 1995
1993-94
1991-92
Summer 1988
1987
Jan. 2011
Jan. 2004
Mar. 2003
Dec. 2003
Dec. 2000
May 1998
Jan. 1998
Professional and Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of History MSU
Acting Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS),
Michigan State University (MSU)
Assistant Professor of History MSU
Fellowships and Grants
MSU Intramural Research Grant (IRGP), research in Brazil Spring 2008
Principal Investigator US Department of Education Title VI-A Grant ($164,000)
Principal Investigator, Tinker Foundation Predissertation Fellowships Grant in my
role as Acting Director of CLACS ($60,000 for 2006-2009)
Assumed Oversight of CLACS‟ Department of Education Title VI-A Grant 20042007
Fulbright CIES Senior Lecturing Research Fellowship, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco.
Intermural Research Grant (IRGP) MSU
Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association (AHA)
Faculty Fellows Program—Integrative Studies Institute (MSU)—Competitive grant
for general education course development “Latin America and the World”
Faculty Teaching/Curriculum/Program Development Grant, MSU, CLACS
Projects Grant Program, College of Arts & Letters, MSU.
Fulbright CIES Lecturing/Research Fellow at the Universidade de São Paulo
All University Research Initiation Grant, College of Arts and Letters, MSU
Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association (AHA)
National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation [Write-up] Award
Fulbright IIE Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Theodore Parker Pre-dissertation Grant, University of Miami, Coral Gables
James R. Scobie Memorial Predissertation Research Prize, Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) of the American Historical Association (AHA)
Awards
Honorable Mention for the Tibesar Prize for the best article published annually in
The Americas awarded by the CLAH of the AHA
2003 Warren Dean Prize for the best book on the history of Brazil published in the
years 2001 and 2002 awarded by the CLAH of the AHA, Jan. 9, 2004
Brazil Section Book Prize for the best book in the social sciences and humanities on
Brazil published in 2001-2002, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Honored with Membership (Sócio Correspondente) by the Instituto Arqueológico,
Histórico, e Geográfico Pernambucano, Recife, Brazil.
Honorable Mention for the CLAH 2000 Prize for the best article on any Latin
American history topic published in 1999 in 33 professional journals, CLAH, AHA.
Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in research, teaching, and contribution to
Latin American and Caribbean Studies by CLACS of MSU
Annual James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize for the best article published in
the Hispanic American Historical Review awarded by the CLAH of the AHA
May 1995
1988 & 1987
Barret Prize for the Best Annual Dissertation in Latin American Studies, University
of Miami (UM), Coral Gables.
Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, Department of History, UM
Books and Volumes
A Tributa de sangue: Exército, honra, raça, e nação no Brasil 1864-1945, tradução Fábio Duarte Joly
(São Paulo: Editora Edusp, 2009). Translated and revised edition of The Tribute of Blood.
Special Editor. “ReCapricorning the Atlantic: Luso-Brazilian and Luso-African Perspectives on
Atlantic History.” Thematic volume of the Luso-Brazilian Review vol. 45, no. 1 (June 2008).
Editor and Contributor, The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004.
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil 1864-1945. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2001.
Journal Articles
“The Jealous Institution: Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality, and Discipline on the Social Margins
of Imperial Brazil,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 53, no. 1 (Jan. 2011):180-209.
“„Born Under the Cruel Rigor of Captivity, the Supplicant Left It Unexpectedly by Committing a
Crime:‟ Categorizing and Punishing Slave Convicts in Brazil, 1830-1897” The Americas 66:1 (July
2009):11-54.
“„ReCapricorning‟ the Atlantic,” introduction to special volume of Luso-Brazilian Review 45(1) (June
2008):1-5.
“The Disputed Sale of the Slave Silvestre: Mental Health, Sexuality, Corporal Punishment and
„Vices‟ in Recife, Brazil, 1869-1878,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y El Caribe
16:1 (2005):41-65.
“Brazilian History in an Asian Millennium? Reading Dead People‟s Mail for a Living in a New
Global Era,” Luso-Brazilian Review (Fall 2003):31-50.
“Beyond Machismos: Recent Explorations of Masculinities in Latin America," Men and Masculinities
4:3 (Jan. 2002):303-308.
“Class Politics and Class Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Brazil,” Latin American Research
Review 36:2 (2001):193-201.
"Conscription Versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform's Influence on Brazil's Management of Social
Control, 1870-1930" Journal of Social History 32:4 (June 1999):847-878. Honorable Mention, CLAH
2000 Prize. Article reprinted in Warfare in Latin America - Volumes I and II, ed. Miguel A. Centeno,
(London: Ashgate Press, 2007), II:339-71. The volumes are part of Ashgate‟s larger series, The
International Library of Essays on Military History.
"The House, the Street, and the Barracks: Reform and Honorable Masculine Social Space in Brazil
1864-1945," Hispanic American Historical Review 76:3 (August 1996):439-472. Winner 1997 James
Alexander Robertson Prize.
"National Identity and the Brazilian Folk: The Image of the Sertanejo in Taunay's A retirada, 1871,"
Review of Latin American Studies 4, nos. 1-2 (1991): 7-43.
Book Chapters
“Common Bedfellows? Brazilian Anti-Slavery and Anti-Capital Punishment Efforts in Comparative
Perspective,” p. 161-200, in Atlantic Slaving Paths: Interactions, Identities, and Images, Ed. Ana
Lúcia Araujo, (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011).
“Illustrating Race and Nation in the Paraguayan War Era: Exploring the Decline of the Tupi Guarani
Warrior as the Embodiment of Brazil,” p. 175-203, in Military Conflicts and Identity Formation in
Latin America. Editors Nicola Foote and René Harder Horst (Gainesville: University of Florida Press,
2010).
“Joaquim Nabuco, o advogado, e Thomaz, o escravo: Perspectivas locais, nacionais,e comparativas
sobre antiescravidão e pena de morte,” ed. Severino J. Albuquerque, Conferências sobre Joaquim
Nabuco: Volume II Joaquim Nabuco e Wisconsin, 2 vols., (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Bem-Te-Vi, 2010),
II:343-379.
“„Cada homem traz dentro de si sua tragédia sexual:‟ visitas conjugais, gênero e A Questão sexual nas
prisões (1934) de Lemos Britto,” II:215-248, Tradução Marcos Bretas, História da prisão no Brasil,
org. Marcos Bretas and Clarissa Nunes Maia, 2 vols. Rio: Editora Rocco, 2009.
With Vitor Izechsohn, “The Brazilian Home Front and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870,”
123-146, Daily Lives of Civilians During Wartime: Latin America from the Wars of Independence to
the Drug Wars, Ed. Pedro Santoni. Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Ser homem pobre, livre, e honrado: a sodomia e as praças nas forças armadas brasileiras, 18601930,” Tradução Vitor Izecksohn, 269-299, A Nova História Militar, edited by Celso Castro, Vitor
Izecksohn, and Hendrik Kraay. Rio: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2004.
“Adolfo Ferreira Caminha: Navy Officer, Ardent Republican, and Naturalist Novelist,” p. 89-106, in
The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, ed. Peter M. Beattie. Wilmington: SR Books, 2004.
“The Individual and the Collective Community in the Human Tradition of Modern Brazil,” p. xiiixxii, in The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, ed. Peter M. Beattie. Wilmington: SR Books, 2004.
“Measures of Manhood: Poor Free Men, Honor, and Slavery‟s Decline in Brazil, 1850-1889,” p. 233255, in Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America, ed. Matthew C. Gutmann. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2003.
"Conflicting Penile Codes: Modern Masculinity and Sodomy in the Brazilian Military 1860-1916," p.
65-85, in Sex and Sexuality in Latin America, Donna Guy and Daniel Bouldersten eds. New York
Univ. Press, 1997. (Volume translated and published in Spanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina by
Paidós).
Scholarly Contributions
“Slaves, Crime, and Punishment in Imperial Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review (2008): 191-193.
“Garrincha,” in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 2nd Ed. New York: Scribner‟s
Sons, forthcoming 2008.
Two entries for Iberia and the Americas: History, Culture and Politics. Ed. J. Michael Francis. 3
Vols. Santa Barbara and Oxford: ABC Clio, 2006.
“In Memory of Robert M. Levine: Mentor and Friend,” Luso-Brazilian Review (Fall 2003):1-8.
"The Paraguayan War Victory Parade July 10, 1870," p. 87-90, in The Brazil Reader, eds. Robert M.
Levine and John Crocitti. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Three entries on Brazil in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Scribner's
Sons, 1995.
Editorial Work
Coeditor for history and social science for the Luso-Brazilian Review, 2003 to the present. This is the
oldest and most respected journal dedicated to Luso-Brazilian studies outside Brazil and Portugal.
Area Editor for The Americas, a scholarly journal of Latin American History, published by Catholic
University of America, (term 2006 to 2012).
Member of the Conselho Editorial (Editorial Council) Militares e política a new scholarly e-journal
housed at the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais.
Member of the Editorial Board of Culture, Society, and Masculinities. Men‟s Studies Press.
Member of the Conselho Editorial of Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica. Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Member of the Conselho Editorial of Passagens. Revista Internacional de História Política e Cultura
Jurídica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.
Book Manuscript Projects
Penology in Slavery and Emancipation: The Agricultural Penal Colony of Fernando de Noronha
Island and Brazilian Penal Justice 1830-1898.
Article Manuscripts Projects
“Capacidade institucional e justiça penal: Sentenciados pernambucanos e o Presídio de Fernando
de Noronha, 1830-1898” book chapter accepted for translation and publication in Org. Grazielle
Rodrigues, Ilha prisão.
Selected Conference Papers and Invited Presentations
“The Troop Trade: Reframing Soldiers as Workers by Way of a Brazilian Island Penal Colony 18301898,” Invited Key Note Address to the Latin American Labor Seminar of Duke University, Durham,
April 1, 2011.
"The Brazilian Military's Evolution in Comparative Perspective: International Ties and National
Problems" Presentation for the Latin America Seminar of the United States Naval Academy, Nov. 29,
2010.
“The Jealous Institution: Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality and Discipline on the Social Margins
of Imperial Brazil,” Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 18, 2010.
"Working on the Imperial Farm: Convict Labor and Discipline on the Fernando de Noronha Island
Penal Colony, Brazil 1830-1897," Talk for Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Seminar
Michigan State University Museum, Jan. 14, 2010.
"The Death Penalty, Slavery and Abolition in Brazil and the United States, 1830-1900" American
Historical Association, San Diego, Jan. 9, 2010.
“Of Total, Greedy, and Jealous Institutions: Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality, and Discipline
on the Social Margins in Imperial Brazil,” Pre-circulated paper discussed at the Newberry Library
Latin American Seminar, Chicago, October 2, 2009.
“Brazilian History and Geography,” Presentation and discussion for Brazil Strategic Culture
Workshop, Florida International University‟s Applied Research Center, Doral, Florida, Oct. 1,
2009.
“The Death Penalty in Brazil and in Comparative Perspective,” Talk for the Center of Latin
American and Caribbean Studies‟ weekly seminar, Michigan State University, Sept. 9, 2009.
“Working on the Imperial Farm: Convict Laborers and Discipline on the Agricultural Penal
Colony of Fernando de Noronha Island, 1830-1997,” Latin American Studies Association
Meeting, July 23, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Os Escravos sentenciados no império brasileiro 1822-1889,” presentation for the Laboratorio
Cidade e Poder da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, June 17, 2009.
“Uma rota estranha à liberdade: Escravos sentenciados no sistema de justiça penal em perspectiva
comparativa,” Colóquio de História: Experiências na escravidão e liberdade, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Recife, Aug. 5, 2008.
“Irmãos do pico: Crime, castigo, e escravos sentenciados na colônia penal de Fernando de Noronha,”
Univesidade Estadual Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Oct. 21, 2008,
“A colônia penal de Fernando de Noronha e o sistema de justiça imperial,” Invited presentation for
Poderes e sociabilidades na história, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Nov. 5, 2008.
“A passagem e contribuição dos negros em Fernando de Noronha,” Invited talk for Primeiro Ciclo de
Palestras e Debates: Dia da Conciência Negra, Remédios, Fernando de Noronha, Nov. 21, 2008.
“The Nature of Slave Criminality and the Art of Clemency in Imperial Brazil” for the panel Slavery
and Society in Nineteenth Century Brazil, Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal,
Sept. 7, 2007.
Invited presentation for the Symposium, Race and Representation in Brazil, “Conflicting Images of
Race and Nation in Brazil During and After the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1890,” Tulane
University, New Orleans, Mar. 9, 2007.
Invited to give the Plenary Presentation to the Third Annual William Wilson Brown Jr. Conference on
Latin American Studies, “Race, Revolution, and Representation: New Perspectives on Latin
America,” February 24, 2007, Charlotte, University of North Carolina Charlotte.
“Life on the Brazilian Home Front During the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-1870” Latin American
Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mar. 18, 2006.
“„Without Women it is Impossible to Rule Fernando‟: Marriage, Discipline, Sexuality and Intractable
Brazilian Men, 1850-1897,” Invited talk, LACS Graduate Forum, Emory University, Feb. 23, 2006.
“A Qualitative Reading of an 1881 „Ex-Slave‟ Convict Survey on Fernando de Noronha Island,
Brazil,” American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan. 5, 2006.
“Vícios, alienação, e vendas: O caso do escravo Silvestre, Recife 1869-1979,” presented for “Outros
Olhares: Novas Gerações, Novos Diálogos,” Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, June 22, 2005 and
the Department of History of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, July 7, 2005.
“The Disputed Sale of the Slave Silvestre: Mental Health, Sexuality, and Corporal Punishment in
Recife, Brazil 1869-1878,” Midwest Meeting of Brazilianists, Madison, Wisconsin, April 16, 2005.
“Ex-Slave Convicts? The Contradictions of Liberal Penology in Brazil‟s Slave Society, 1840-1892”
American Historical Association Meeting, Seattle, Jan. 8, 2005.
Invited Round Table participant on the subject of “Publicando nos EUA: uma mesa redonda,”
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Rio de Janeiro, June 10, 2004.
“The Disputed Sale of the Slave Silvestre: Mental Health, Sexuality, and Corporal Punishment in
Recife, Brazil 1869-1878,” Latin America Regional Workshop, Notre Dame University, May 12,
2004.
“Comparing Marriage Among Slaves, Military Enlisted Men, and Convicts in Brazil 1850-1888,”
New Directions in Latin American History Conference, University of Miami, Coral Gables, April 16,
2004.
“Of Total, Greedy, and Jealous Institutions: Family, Gender, and Discipline on a Brazilian Penal
Colony, 1850-1900,” History Department Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Mar. 17, 2004. I also led two history seminars at UIUC on Mar. 15 & 16, 2004.
“Public Security Initiatives and Problems Under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva‟s Administration: Police
and Prisons,” Presentation to the Brazilian Studies Committee‟s Roundtable on Lula‟s
Administration, CLAH, AHA Meeting, Washington, D. C., Jan. 9, 2004.
“Sexo e disciplina institucional: Prisões e sociedade no Brasil no final do século XIX e no começo do
século XX” III Semana de História da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, “História:
Censura e Imaginária” for the panel “Ordem e excludência no Brasil do século XIX,” June 2, 2003.
“Analisando idéias de honra e masculinidade entre a população humilde do Brasil no final do século
XIX,” Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), 23 de Junho de 2003.
“Sem mulheres é impossível governar Fernando [de Noronha]: Sexualidade, família e disciplina nas
prisões do Brasil, 1865-1935,” Programa de Pós-graduação em História, UFSC, June 24, 2003.
“Conflicting Images of Race and Nation in Brazil During and After the Paraguayan War,” Paper
presented to the AHA Meeting, Chicago, Jan. 4, 2003.
“Honor, the Family, and the State in Late Nineteenth Century Brazil,” One hour presentation to the
History Department of the UFPE, Recife, Brazil, Nov. 21, 2002.
“Brazilian History in an Asian Millenium? Reading Dead People‟s Mail for a Living in a New Global
Era,” Luso-Brazilian Studies in the New Millenium, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, June 14, 2002.
"Tribute Labor and Free Poor Manhood in a Slave Society: National Service and Servility in Brazil
1870-1916" Department of Historical Studies, New School University, New York, Apr. 2, 2002.
“For My Friends, Anything; For My Enemies, the Law; and For My Free Poor Enemies, Jobs in Law
Enforcement? New Perspectives on the State, the Military, and the Poor in Brazil, 1864-1916,”
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Jan. 27, 2002.
“Tribute Labor for the State: Military Impressment and Conscription in Brazil, 1864-1945” Chicago
Area Latin American Studies Symposium, Northwestern University, Jan. 9, 2002.
“Concepts of Discipline and Sexuality in Brazil‟s Prisons 1865-1935,” Paper for the symposium on
Sexuality and Social Control in Latin America at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 16,
2001.
“Manhood and Enlisted Military Service in Brazil in the Late 1800s” Paper presented to LASA
Washington, D.C. Sept. 6, 2001.
“Manhood, Slavery, and Race in Wartime and in Peacetime, 1850-1889,” Invited paper for the
colloquia Male Friendship and Homosociality in Latin America at Brown University, Providence, RI
April 7, 2001.
“„Every Man Carries within His Own Sexual Tragedy:‟ Ideas and Practices of Discipline and
Sexuality in Gender Segregating Institutions,” Paper for the Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies
Conference, Tucson, Arizona, Mar. 1, 2001.
“Military Recruitment in Brazil and Argentina 1870-1920: Comparing Conceptions of Race,
Masculinity, and Nation,” Paper presented to the BRASA, Recife, Brazil, June 20, 2000.
“Measures of Manhood: Poor Free Men, Honor, Slavery, and Soldiering, 1870-1890” paper presented
to the Latin American History Workshop at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Mar. 4, 2000.
“The Distance between the Protected and the Unprotected Poor: National Guard and Regular Army
Service in Brazil, 1831-1918” Paper for LASA Conference, Miami, Mar. 17, 2000.
“Masculinidade, raça, e nação: A questão do sorteio militar (1900-1930),” Invited Presentation for
seminar on Recent Research by Young Brazilianists for the Nucleo da Cor, Instituto de Filosophia e
Ciencias Sociais (IFCS), Universidade Federal de Rio do Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, June 20, 1999.
Presentations as a Fulbright fellow on various aspects of my research at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,
Rio de Janeiro; Universidade Federal do Roraima, Boa Vista; Instituto Teotônio Villela, Brasília,
Distrito Federal; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife; and the Departamento de História,
Universidade de São Paulo (Nov. and Dec. 1998).
“Medicine, Sexuality and Discipline in the Barracks and the Prison, 1864-1945,” Paper for the
BRASA Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 1997.
“O símbolo do sertanejo antes de Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha,” Palestra para o seminário,
Canudos: 100 Anos, Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 9, 1997.
“Crime and Punishment in the Brazilian Army 1850-1916,” paper presented to BRASA Conference,
Cambridge University, King's College, Sept. 10, 1996.
Invited public lectures in Portuguese on different aspects of my book manuscript presented to the
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (Key note talk to open the school year), March 26, 1997;
Universidade de São Paulo (Centro de Estudos de Demografia Histórica da América Latina), April 11,
1997; the Pontífica Universidade Católica de São Paulo, April 9, 1997.
“Brasil na historiografia norteamericana,” one-hour key note presentation in Portuguese at the
Semana de História conference at the Universidade do Estado de São Paulo, Franca, Oct. 15, 1996.
“Combating Sodomy on the Land and on the Sea: Masculinity on Trial in Brazilian Courts Martial,”
Paper presented to the LASA Conference, Washington, Sept. 20, 1995.
“Exército, raça, nação e honra no Brasil 1864-1945,” Presentation for the Fundação Getúlio Vargas,
Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação, Rio, July 28, 1995.
“Fusing the Ideologies of Hygiene, Eugenics, Nationalism, and Militarism during Brazil's Old
Republic, 1889-1930,” Paper presented to the BRASA, Minneapolis, May 14, 1995.
“Discipline and Progress: Brazilian Army Reform in the Institutionalization of Modern Systems of
Social Control, 1870-1925,” Paper presented to the Brazilian Studies Committee at the AHA
Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 7, 1994.
“Exacting the Tribute of Blood: The Regional and Provincial Distribution of Brazilian Army
Recruitment, 1870-1900,” Paper presented to the LASA Conference, Los Angeles, Sept. 25, 1992.
“Disciplina, crime, castigo, e as fileiras do exército brasileiro, 1870-1916,” A presentation given as
part of the "Palestras no Arquivo" series in the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Apr. 29, 1992.
Professional Experience and Contributions
Book Reviews: Hispanic American Historical Review (5) Miguel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War
and the Nation State in Latin America (Pennsylvania State U. Press, 2001); G. Harvey Summ ed.,
Brazilian Mozaic:Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture (SR Books, 1995); Jurandir Malerba, Os
Brancos da lei: Liberalismo, escravidão, e mentalidade patriarcal no Império do Brasil (Ed. da
Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 1994); Ricardo Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre eds., The Birth of the
Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 18301940 (U.of Texas Press, 1996); Robert Buffington and Carlos Aguirre eds. Reconstructing
Criminality in Latin America (SR Books, 1999); Luso-Brazilian Review (2) Don Kulick, Travesti:
Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (U. of Chicago Press, 1998);
James Green, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil (U. of Chicago,
2000); Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs (4) Winston Fritch, External Constraints
on Economic Policy in Brazil, 1889-1930 (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1988); Ruth Leacock, Requiem for
Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969 (Kent State U. Press, 1990); Robert A. Hayes,
The Armed Nation: The Brazilian Corporate Mystique (Arizona State U. Press, 1989); Michael C.
Conniff and Frank D. McCann eds. Modern Brazil: Elites and Masses in Historical Perspective (U. of
Nebraska Press, 1989); Southeastern Latin Americanist (1) Sidney Chalhoub, Trabalho, Lar e
Botequim: o cotidiana dos trabalhadores no Rio de Janeiro na Belle Epoque (Brasiliense, 1986);
Newsletter of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian History (1) Richard Parker, Beneath the Equator:
Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil (Routledge,
1999). Journal of Latin American Studies (1) Sueann Caulfield, In Defense of Honor: Sexual
Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil. (Duke, 2000); The Historian (1)
Chris Warren, Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to the
Republic (SR Books, 2001); American Historical Review (2), Eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna
Peniston-Bird, A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military (Longman, 2000). Frank D.
McCann, Soldiers of the Partia: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937 (Stanford, 2004); The
Americas (4) Jerry Dávila, Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945
(Duke, 2003); Gabriel Odetti, Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle
for Agrarian Reform in Brazil (Penn State, 2008), Jeffrey Mosher, Political Struggle, Ideology, and
State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850 (Nebraska, 2008); Brodiwyn
Fischer, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
(Stanford, 2008); Ethnohistory (1): Leslie Gill, The School of the Americas: Military Training and
Political Violence in the Americas (Duke, 2004), and H-Net Reviews (1) Ricardo Salvatore, Carlos
Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since
late Colonial Times (Duke, 2001)
Chair, Robertson Prize Committee for CLAH, AHA (2004); Chair, Brazil Section Book Prize
Committee for LASA (2004); Chair, Roberto Reis Book Prize Committee for BRASA (2005);
Committee member Brazil Section Book Prize LASA (2006).
Elected Secretary of the Brazilian Studies Committee (BSC) of the CLAH, AHA (2005-06); Chair of
the BSC (2006-07)
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association 2006-2010
Elected to the CLAH, AHA Executive Committee 2006-2008
Book Manuscripts Reviewed: U of Nebraska Press (3), U of Wisconsin Press (1), Pittsburgh U Press
(1); Duke University Press (2); University of Alabama Press (1); University of New Mexico (1); Text
book chapters for Longman Press, and a book series proposal for Duke University Press.
Tenure Review Evaluations for Portland State (2001), Texas A&M (2002), Utah State (2006).
University of Arkansas (2008); CUNY Queens (2008); Ohio State University (2010).
Articles Reviewed for Journals: Hispanic American Historical Review (6); The Americas (4); LusoBrazilian Review (5); Comparative Studies in Society and History (1); Estudios Interdisciplinarios de
America Latina y el Caribe (1); Journal of Latin American Studies (2); Canadian Journal of Latin
American Studies (1); The Historian (1) Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (1); Colonial Latin
American Historical Review (1); Culture, Society, and Masculinities (4), Men and Masculinities (1),
and Antítesis (1).
Program Committee Chair for the Brazilian Studies Association Meeting, Vanderbilt University,
2006.
Program Committee Chair for CLAH, 2012; Member of the CLAH program committee 2011.
Served on the faculty advisory board for the Comparative Black History conference: Diaspora
Paradigms: New Scholarship in Comparative Black History, East Lansing, Sept. 20-22, 2001.
Panel Commentator: Symposium on Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora April 1995;
BRASA, May 15, 1995; MSU Sweet Symposium Nov. 1997; Southern Historical Association, Nov.
11, 2000, MSU Sweet Symposium Nov. 18, 2000; BRASA June 11, 2004; AHA, 2005, 2006, and
2008.
Reviewed and ranked grant applications for Fulbright Hayes 1996, National Endowment for the
Humanities (1994), MSU AURIG Initiation and Project Completion Grants Evaluation Committee
1998, MSU FLAS Grants (1998); Teacher/Scholar Award Committee, (CAL, 2000); MSU Tinker
Grant Committee (CLACS 2000, 2001, 2002); IIE Fulbright Graduate Student Fellowships for Brazil
2004 and 2007; Evaluated NEH Fellowship Applications 2005 and 2007; Evaluated NEH Kluge
Fellowship Applications and Fulbright IIE in 2009.
Committee work: Elected, College of Arts and Letters representative to the Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies Advisory Board 1998-2001; Graduate Admissions 1994-5, 2000-2001;
Steering Committee 1995-6; Sweet Committee 1995-99; Romance and Classical Language‟s Search
Committee 1995-6; Appointment Committee 1998-99; Caribbean Search Committee 1997-8, 1995-6;
Annual Review Committee 1999 and 2000; Chair Modern Mexico Search 2001; Middle-Eastern
Search Committee 2004; Integrative Studies Planning Committee 2004; History Search Committee
2004-5; outside committee member for a search in Spanish Literature 2004-2005; Chair Portuguese
Language Search 2005-2006; History Curriculum Committee 2005-2006; Five Year Review
Committee of WID/GenCen Director (2008); Advisory Committee, Wharton Center on Latino
Community Relations (2005-7); Graduate Committee Chair (2009 and 2010); DAC 2010-2011, Chair
Graduate Committee 2010-2011.
Organized and instructed MSU‟s Study Abroad in Brazil Program, Summers 1995 and 1996; Brazil
Week Participant and Organizer at MSU 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2006; Les Rout
Memorial Talk Coordinator 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2001.
Co-organized Robert M. Levine Memorial Conference: New Directions in Latin American History,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, April 15-17, 2004.
References
Prof. Elizabeth Kuznesof, Professor of History, Director of the Center of Latin American Studies,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, Phone: (913) 864-3569.
Prof. Dain Borges, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th St.,
Chicago, Illinois 60637, Phone: (773) 702-8397.
Prof. Mark D. Szuchman, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International
University, University Park, Miami, Fl. 33199, Phone: (305) 348-2866.
Prof. Jeffrey Lesser, Professor of History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322,
Phone: (404) 707-4459.