Zephyr Frank
Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
History
Academic Appointments
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Professor, History
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Professor, Environmental Social Sciences
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Professor (By courtesy), Iberian and Latin American Cultures
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Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Administrative Appointments
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Professor, Stanford (2015 - Present)
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Director, Program on Urban Studies, Stanford University (2013 - 2019)
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Visiting Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2012 - 2012)
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Associate Professor, Stanford University (2008 - 2015)
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Assistant Professor, Stanford University (2000 - 2008)
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Lecturer, Illinois State University (1999 - 2000)
Honors & Awards
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Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University (2019)
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Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2016-17)
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Dean's Award, Distinguished Achievements in Teaching, Stanford University (2008)
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Graves Award, Excellence in Humanities Teaching, administered by Pomona College in conjunction with the ACLS (2008)
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Conference Prize, Conference on Latin American History (2006)
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Strugis Leavitt Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (2006)
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Robertson Prize, Conference ofLatin American History (2005)
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Office of Technology Licensing Research Initiative Award, Stanford (2001-02)
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Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays, Brazil (1997)
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Graduate College Fellow, University of Illinois (1996)
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FLAS Title VI Fellowship (Portuguese), University of Illinois (1993-95)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Elected Member, Academic Council Advisory Board, Stanford University (2019 - Present)
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Member, Steering Committee, Faculty Senate, Stanford University (2019 - 2020)
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Elected Member, Faculty Senate, Stanford University (2019 - 2020)
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Committee Member, CASBS Fellowship Selection Committee (2017 - Present)
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Committee Member, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Faculty Advisory Committee (2019 - Present)
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Founding Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University (2012 - 2016)
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Board Member, Editorial Board, Stanford University Press (2019 - Present)
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Director, Spatial History Project, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
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Core participant, Stanford Spatial History Project, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences. (2007 - 2012)
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Member of selection committee, American Council of Learned Societies, Digital Innovation Fellowship Program (2013 - 2014)
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Thesis Prize Committee, Centro de Pesquisa em Historia Social da Cultura, UNICAMP, Brazil (2009 - 2009)
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Organizer, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University (2006 - 2006)
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Organizer, Terrain of History, Stanford Humanities Center (2006 - 2006)
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Affiliated faculty member, Urban Studies Program, Stanford University (2006 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty member, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2007 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty member, Woods Institute for the Environment (2009 - 2011)
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Member of Editorial Board, Cadernos de Historia (academic journal, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
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Screener, SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships (2005 - 2005)
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Screener, SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships (2008 - 2008)
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Manuscript reviewer, University of New Mexico Press, Yale University Press, and Stanford University Press
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Article Reviewer, Business History Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Revista de Hist6ria Economica
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Co-director, with Richard Roberts, Court Records and Humanities," an interactive digital archive project in the Stanford Humanities Laboratory (2003 - Present)
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Commentator, Hewlett-Brazil Workshop, University of Illinois (2001 - 2001)
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Commentator, Political Culture in the Andes, a NEH conference held at the University of Illinois (2000 - 2000)
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Director, Program on Urban Studies (2013 - Present)
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Chair, Digital Humanities Faculty Search (DLCL & English) (2013 - Present)
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Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (2012 - Present)
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Appointed member, ad-hoc committee on online learning, VPOL (2012 - 2013)
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Appointed member, SUES subcommittee on breadth (2011 - 2012)
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Appointed member, C-ACIS (2011 - Present)
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Member, Committee in Charge, Program in Modern Thought and Literature (2011 - Present)
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Elected member, Faculty Senate, Stanford University (2010 - 2012)
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Executive Committee member, Urban Studies Program, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
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Board member, Latin American Studies Center, Stanford University (2006 - Present)
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Director, Honors Program in History, Department of History, Stanford University (2001 - 2003)
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Selection Committee, External and Internal Faculty Fellowships, Stanford Humanities Center (2010 - 2010)
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Selection Committee, Graduate Fellowships, Stanford Humanities Center (2006 - 2006)
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Book prize committee, AHA-Pacific Coast Branch, 2006-08; Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies (2006 - 2007)
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Member, Latin American History search committee, Stanford University (2002 - 2003)
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Faculty supervisor, Summer Honors College (2002 - 2002)
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Faculty supervisor, Summer Honors College (2003 - 2003)
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Faculty supervisor, Summer Honors College (2004 - 2004)
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Co-director, Empires and Cultures Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center (2001 - 2005)
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Member, History Department Policy Committee, Stanford University (2002 - 2003)
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Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, Stanford University (2000 - 2002)
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Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, Stanford University (2005 - 2006)
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Conference organizer, Latin America and Global Trade," Social Science History Institute, Stanford University (2001 - 2001)
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Secretary, Department of History, Stanford University (2000 - 2001)
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Graduate Admissions Committee, Latin American Studies Center, Stanford University (2001 - 2001)
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Graduate Admissions Committee, Latin American Studies Center, Stanford University (2007 - 2007)
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor for students in History, Latin American Studies, and International Relations
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Member or chair, doctoral examination committees in History and Political Science
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Honors Award Committee, Department of History, Stanford University (2001 - 2001)
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Honors Award Committee, Department of History, Stanford University (2002 - 2002)
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Member, Feminist Studies Resource Faculty (2000 - Present)
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Member, American Historical Association
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Member, Economic History Association
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Member, Economic History Society
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Member, Mexican Economic History Association
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Member, Brazilian Studies Association
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Corresponding Member, Instituto Historico e Geognifico de Mato Grosso
Program Affiliations
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Center for Latin American Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, History (1999)
Projects
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Urbanization and its Discontents
This project, supported by grants from the NSF and Stanford HAI, seeks to understand the complex interaction between urban growth and change in land use in broader urban-rural interfaces. It utilizes remote sensing, GIS, Google Street View, and historical records and data in order to construct models of urban-rural interaction. The project is especially focused on the struggle for land and housing for newly arrived urban dwellers, as well as the pressures and struggles faced by rural, agricultural populations in the face of these processes. Our current regional focus is on these processes as they developed in Latin America between the 1950s and the present. Finally, the project is housed in the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, where it is also supported by the able staff and students affiliated with the Center.
Location
Stanford
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Historical Demography of the Rio das Mortes, Brazil, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Project seeks to reconstruct the demography of a region in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the period 1700-1900. Collaboration with scholars at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Location
Brazil
Collaborators
- Douglas Libby, Professor, UFMG
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The Casa dos Contos Project, Stanford
This project involves collaboration with scholars at UFMG (Belo Horizonte), UFSJDR (S.J. del Rei), and UFF (Niteroi), Brazil. The project seeks to reconstruct the economic and social fabric of 18th-century Minas Gerais through the digitization and analysis of thousands of pages of everyday manuscripts.
Location
Stanford
2024-25 Courses
- Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography
HISTORY 371 (Win) - Human Society and Environmental Change
EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, ESS 112, HISTORY 103D (Aut) - Spatial History, Part II
HISTORY 401B (Spr) - Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems
HISTORY 401A (Win) -
Independent Studies (17)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
EARTHSYS 297 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading
URBANST 197 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading in Environment and Resources
ENVRES 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Research
EARTHSYS 250 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Research in Environment and Resources
ENVRES 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Win, Spr) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Program in Earth Systems
EARTHSYS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master¿s Thesis and Thesis Research
LATINAM 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Win, Spr) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History
HISTORY 306 (Aut) - Human Society and Environmental Change
EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, ESS 112, HISTORY 103D (Aut) - The Historical Ecology of Latin America
HISTORY 378 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography
HISTORY 371 (Win) - Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
HISTORY 305 (Win) - Human Society and Environmental Change
EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, ESS 112, HISTORY 103D (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History
HISTORY 306 (Aut) - Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography
HISTORY 371 (Win) - Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
HISTORY 305 (Win) - Human Society and Environmental Change
EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, ESS 112, HISTORY 103D (Aut)
- Beyond Borders: Approaches to Transnational History
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Shubhangni Gupta, Miri Powell -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Farah Bazzi, Christian Robles-Baez, David Stentiford -
Orals Evaluator
Mariana Calvo, William Parish, Olavo Passos de Souza, Miri Powell, Matt Randolph, Christian Robles-Baez -
Master's Program Advisor
Dalia Hernandez, Mario Nicolas, Nicha Rattanabut -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Matt Randolph -
Doctoral (Program)
Farah Bazzi, William Parish, Olavo Passos de Souza, Matt Randolph, Christian Robles-Baez, David Stentiford, Nina de Meira Borba
All Publications
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Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2023: 1-10
View details for DOI 10.1145/3615887.3627761
View details for Web of Science ID 001138940700001
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Ejidos, Urbanization, and the Production of Inequality in Formerly Agricultural Lands, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1975-2020
LAND
2020; 9 (12)
View details for DOI 10.3390/land9120526
View details for Web of Science ID 000602137500001
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REGION, NATION, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: An Interview with Joseph L. Love on 50 Years of Studying Brazil
AMERICAS
2019; 76 (1): 137–52
View details for DOI 10.1017/tam.2018.42
View details for Web of Science ID 000458113400006
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Wines of Altitude in the State of Santa Catarina: the signature of an identity
TEMPO E ARGUMENTO
2019; 11 (26): 183–200
View details for DOI 10.5965/2175180311262019183
View details for Web of Science ID 000464670300009
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Naming Practices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Brazil: Names, Namesakes, and Families in the Parish of Sao Jose, Minas Gerais
JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY
2015; 40 (1): 64-91
View details for DOI 10.1177/0363199014562556
View details for Web of Science ID 000347164200004
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An historical land conservation analysis in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA: 1850-2010
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
2014; 127: 114-123
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.04.011
View details for Web of Science ID 000337878700012
- Review of The Laws of Chance Journal of Social History 2013; 47 (1)
- Entre ricos e pobres o mundo de Antonio Jose Dutra no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista Sao Paulo: Editora Annablume. 2012
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Risk, Incentives, and Contracts: Partnerships in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1891
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
2010; 70 (3): 686-715
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0022050710000586
View details for Web of Science ID 000281904500006
- The Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro circa 1869: Movement, Context, and Social Experience the Journal of Latin American Geography 2010; 9 (2)
- Review of The Forbidden Lands Hispanic American Historical Review 2010; 90 (3)
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Returning to the Parish Registers of Colonial Minas Gerais: ethnicity in Sao Jose do Rio das Mortes, 1780-1810
REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE HISTORIA
2009; 29 (58): 383-415
View details for Web of Science ID 000275324900007
- Voltando aos registros paroquiais de Minas colonial: etnicidade em Sao Jose do Rio das Mortes, 1780-1810 Revista Brasileira de Historia 2009; 29 (58): 383-415
- Exploring International Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in the Americas 2008
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Layers, flows and intersections: Jeronymo Jose de Mello and artisan life in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1880s
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY
2007; 41 (2): 307-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000252046000003
- The Partnership Puzzle: Business Partnerships in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1891 paper presented to the VonGremp Economic History Workshop, UCLA 2007
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Cities and wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860
COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY
2006; 48 (3): 634-668
View details for Web of Science ID 000238505500006
- Of Birth and Bondage Working Paper for the Early Modem History Workshop 2006
- Conclusion: Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective From Silver to Cocaine edited by Marichal, Topik, Frank Duke University Press. 2006: 352–360
- Stature in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: Preliminary Evidence from Prison Records Revista de Historia Economica: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 2006; 24 (3): 465-490
- From Silver to Cocaine Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 edited by Marichal, C., Topik, S. Durham: Duke University Press. 2006
- Review of Stringing Together a Nation Hispanic American Historical Review 2006; 86 (3)
- Introduction: Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History From Silver to Cocaine edited by Marichal, Topik, Frank Duke University Press. 2006: 1–24
- Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870-1930 From Silver to Cocaine edited by Marichal, Topik, Frank Duke University Press. 2006: 271–299
- Review of Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920 Business History Review 2006; 80 (3)
- Rentiers and Renters: The Urban Property Market in Rio de Janeiro Poverty and inequality in Latin America 2006
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Exploring parish registers in colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil: Ethnicity in Sao Jose do Rio das Mortes, 1780-1810
COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2005; 14 (3): 213-244
View details for Web of Science ID 000203163400001
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Wealth holding in southeastern Brazil, 1815-60
HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2005; 85 (2): 223-257
View details for Web of Science ID 000228761100002
- Wealth Holding in Southeastern Brazil Hispanic American Historical Review 2005; 85 (2): 221-255
- Dutra's World Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004
- Review of Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia The Journal of Economic History 2003; 63 (3)
- Review of Labour Relations and Industrial Performance in Brazil: Greater Sao Paulo, 1945-60 The Journal of Economic History 2002; 62 (2)
- The International Natural Rubber Market, 1870-1930 edited by Whaples, R. 2002
- Review of The Many and the Few Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2002; 33 (4)
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Exports and inequality: Evidence from the Brazilian frontier, 1870-1937
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
2001; 61 (1): 37-58
View details for Web of Science ID 000167682000003
- Review of Banking and Economic Development: Brazil 1889-1930 The Journal of Economic History 2001; 61 (4)
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Elite families and oligarchic politics on the Brazilian frontier: Mato Grosso, 1889-1937
LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW
2001; 36 (1): 49-74
View details for Web of Science ID 000166996200003