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APPLICANT COPY SUBMIT THIS APPLICATION ONLINE 1. Country of Interest or Regional/Global Award Program: 2. Award Number: 3. Type of Activity: 5. Title: 6. Name: 7. Preferred/Nick Name: 8. Current academic or professional title: Start Date of Current Position: 9. Professional address Country 10. Date of Birth Professional Profile: Employment Information Other academic or professional title: Province/State Institution Institution Other School Department Name Address 1 Address 2 City Telephone Email Zip Fax 11. City of Birth State of Birth Country of Birth 12. Country of Citizenship Second Country of Citizenship 13. Date of Naturalization 14. Sex 15. U.S. Veteran Brazil 7449 | All Disciplines Teaching/Research Dr. Mahony Mary Ann Mary Ann Professor and Coordinator August / 2012 United States Central Connecticut State University Carrol Ammon School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Department of History Social Science Hall 1615 Stanley Street New Britain 8608322800 06050 860-832-2804 [email protected] November / 13 / 1954 Lowell Massachusetts United States United States Female No / / Connecticut State (if home country is U.S.) (if home country is not U.S.) For Regional Awards or Global awards only: FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM 2017-18 U.S. Scholar Application Form Application Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Program Are you a postdoctoral applicant? Yes No Date 4. Enter a proposed start date and total grant length. If the proposed project is submitted for consideration as a Flex grant, indicate the number of years and segments over which the project will span. Grant details must match the award description. July 2017 4 months Length Submitting for Flex
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18. List your five most significant professional accomplishments, honors, and awards.Three nominations to CCSU's Excellence in Teaching Award; “A Vida e os Tempos de João Gomes: Escravidão, negociação e resistência no Atlântico Negro” Revista Crítica Histórica. Nº 13, 2016. Online jornal, n/p.; "Mulher, família e estatuto social no sul da Bahia: entre a escravidão e a liberdade (c. 1850 – c. 1920)" In: Libby et al. Família e Demografia em Minas Gerais: 1600-1920. Editora UFMG, 2015;“Creativity Under Constraint: "Enslaved and Free Afro-Brazilian Families in Brazil’s Cacao Area, 1870-1890,” JSH, 2008; “A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Historical Representation, Collective Memory and Elite Rule in Twentieth-Century Southern Bahia, Brazil,” in Joseph, ed., Reestablishing the Political in Latin American History, 2001, translated and reprinted in Brazil, 2008
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History, Environment and Development in Southern Bahia since the Collapse of Cacao
22. Provide an abstract or brief summary of proposed project.At the invitation of Dr. Alexandre Schiavetti, director of the Graduate Program in Regional Development and Environment, with the cooperation of the Departments of History and Geography, I will engage in an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary teaching and research program in environmental history at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil. I will teach two environmental history courses (one graduate and the other undergraduate), collaborate with scientists, historians and geographers, and connect research on the connection between deforestation and agricultural exports. The project addresses the literature on deforestation through the case of Bahia's cacao region, home in 1990 to one of the few remaining vestiges of Atlantic Forest, largely destroyed when cacao collapsed.
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I was administered a language proficiency test in Portuguese by Professor Frances Hagopian, at that time Acting Director of the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a scholar of Brazilian politics in 2000. I was also given a language proficiency test in 1987 by Professor Leo Bernucci, at
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that time a member of the Faculty at Yale. I also passed the Portuguese language proficiency test at Yale as a requirement to receive the M.Phil. I passed all three tests, two of which were oral, and the other based on use of written documents in Portuguese.
I took two 1/2 years of formal coursework in Portuguese as part of my graduate training and a semester of review at CCSU several years ago. As a graduate student, I lived in Brazil and I practiced Portuguese daily. I taught at the Federal University of Bahia in spring 2002 as a Fulbright Scholar, which required lecturing, leading discussions, and grading papers as well as communicating with students. I now live in a state with a large Brazilian population, and regularly use Portuguese. My c.v. contains additional evidence of Portuguese fluency, including recent lectures and translations. I was most recently in Brazil in March 2016 where I developed the contacts for this proposal.
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History, Environment and Development in Southern Bahia since the Collapse of Cacao:Project Description: Latin American environmental history has been a tale of destruction, for which the development of export agriculture is often blamed (Carey, 2009). Yet, southern Bahia’s Atlantic Forest coexisted with export agriculture based on cacao. It was only AFTER cacao collapsed in the early 1990s that the Atlantic Forest was decimated. I do not mean to suggest that the development of export agriculture in southern Bahia in the nineteenth century did not reduce Atlantic Forest cover, but enough forest remained in 1993 that a Brazilian-American team of botanists could warn the world that the Atlantic Forest in southern Bahian forest was under severe, immediate threat. The team had found more species diversity in the southern Bahian Atlantic Forest than in the Amazon Rainforest. Environmentalists now recognize the importance of the southern Bahian Atlantic Forest, but, reading the historiography on environmental history, one would have expected southern Bahia to be denuded of forest cover centuries ago. Dean (1995), Miller (2000) and Rogers (2010) all argue that forest destruction in Brazil took place well before the 1990s, particularly in areas with logging or export agriculture.Yet the southern Bahian case does not fully support their arguments.
Despite these complexities, environmental historians have not closely examined the southern Bahian case, while development specialists and environmentalists in southern Bahia reference an out-of-date historiography as they strategize about the measures that may allow successful reforestation and resolve regional development problems. Historians who write about the region, myself included, focus on traditional areas of history—social, cultural and political—addressing questions related to indigenous people, slavery and freedom and the politics of the cacao economy (Schwartz, 1985; Reis, 2000; Mahony, 2006). Studies by these scholars and others are important, but it often seems as though the development and environment specialists and the historians, whether based at UESC or elsewhere, are engaged in two completely different conversations about the same place. Reflecting this lack of communication, no historian participates in the interdisciplinary graduate program (M.S. and Ph.D.) in Regional Development and Environment (RDE) at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). No member of UESC’sHistory Department has expertise in environmental history.
In hopes of resolving this deficiency, Dr. Alexandre Schiavetti, director of the Graduate Program in Regional Development and Environment (RDE), with the cooperation of the Departments of History and Geography, has invited me to spend a semester at UESC developing an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary teaching and research program. (A Portuguese-language invitation is attached and the English translation is uploaded as an Appendix.) The RDE program aims to contribute “to the sustainable development of tropical regions, especially Southeastern Bahia, through the preparation of highly qualified professionals with a clear, integrated vision of the environmental relationships involved in the conception, planning, operationalization and monitoring of the process of development.“ It primarily involves faculty from the departments of Biological Sciences, Agrarian Sciences and Environmental Science. It offers both the master’s degree and the Ph.D.
In the RDE graduate program, I will offer a course in environmental history, advisingstudent research and give public lectures and workshops for colleagues. In the History and Geography Departments, I will teach an undergraduate course in environmental history for majors. About 1/3 of my time will be spent in a research project on the history of the Atlantic
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Forest in the context of the questions raised by the experiences of southern Bahia. Through this project, we hope to develop a bridge between the two groups of faculty and students, improving the scholarship of faculty and the education of students who will go on to be southern Bahia’s development professionals and teachers.
Teaching Experience in the U.S. and Brazil: I am professor of Latin American history and Coordinator of the Latin American Studies Committee of the International Studies Program at Central Connecticut State University, with nearly 25 years of teaching experience. Students and colleagues recognize the quality of my teaching. I maintain contacts with former students from throughout my career. CCSU students nominated me three times for the Excellence in Teaching Award, and twice my colleagues granted me Honorable Mention (2012; 2016). At Notre Dame, the Latino students selected to co-host their annual commencement.
I teach undergraduate courses on colonial and modern Latin American history, Brazilian history, historical representation, export societies, slavery and freedom, and historical methods. Several of these courses engage the literature on environmental history. Previously, I taught at Columbia College in South Carolina (2002-3) and the University of Notre Dame (1994-2001).
I also teach graduate courses in my field for students in CCSU’s History (M.A.), Public History (M.A.) and International Studies (M.S.) programs, as well as introductory methods courses for IS students. Most CCSU history graduate students study the U.S., but IS students focus on either a geographic region, including Latin America, or a theme, including Energy, Resources and Environment. I advise master’s thesis on numerous topics. While at Notre Dame, I served on the dissertation committees of four students, who have gone on to successful careers.
I have had two brief, but formative, experiences teaching in Brazil: I was a 2002 Fulbright Scholar in the History Department of the Federal University of Bahia, where I first met Dr. Teresinha Marcis (Ph.D. UFBA), chair of the UESC History Department. In the first semester of 1990, I taught at the Federação de Escolas Superiores, Ilhéus-Itabuna (FESPI), UESC’s predecessor. I have also served on a small number of Brazilian M.A. or Ph.D. committees and advised one Brazilian Ph.D. student at CCSU on a “Sandwich Fellowship.” Teaching Methodology: My teaching methodology varies according to goals of the academic program, as well as the level of the course, and the interests and capabilities of the students. My courses combine lecture and discussion of common readings in primary and secondary sources, with written essays and research papers based on primary and secondary sources. Advanced courses incorporate more student discussion and independent research and writing than do introductory classes. I accommodate different learning styles and academic preparation, as well as recognition that many of my students—like those at UESC—are more interested in applied work in museums, NGOs or government service than in traditional teaching and research.Courses: I will teach two courses in environmental history at UESC that will engage the debateson the environmental history of Latin America and that of agricultural export societies, especially in Brazil. The graduate course will address major themes in environmental history, emphasizing literature that will help us to think through the challenges that southern Bahia faces.This “special topics” elective fits into the RDE curriculum on Environmental Analysis, Planning and Administration, and particularly the interdisciplinary research themes of Analysis of the environmental use, administration and quality of urban, rural and coastal areas and Interactionsof the Environment and Society.
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I will offer a similar undergraduate course for students in the History and Geography Departments. Alternatively, should the departments prefer, I will offer an undergraduate course on History and Memory with an emphasis on the environment. Sample syllabi are attached.
All courses will require readings in primary and secondary sources, short review essays papers, and a final paper based on primary research. The main difference between the graduate and undergraduate courses will be the number and complexity of readings and written assignments required. Most course materials will be in Portuguese or Spanish, as many important English-language works in environmental history have been translated and many Brazilian scholars are moving into Environmental History. Readings will be available through the University bookstore, through the University library, or electronically. I will consult my UESC colleagues to finalize the syllabi, and bring with me any materials not available in Bahia. After completion of the course, I will leave all readings deposited at the UESC library.
Few UESC students come from urban backgrounds, so all courses will include visits to a cacao farm and the Atlantic Forest, as well as Floresta Viva and the Instituto Cabruca, environmentalist NGOs in the region. The University is capable of providing transportationCurriculum Planning Experience: I participate in curriculum planning at CCSU, both in the History Department and in International Studies. I assisted in redeveloping the IS graduate curriculum that led to a new course to overcome gaps in academic preparation our students exhibited, and introduced the new thematic emphases. In history, we regularly review ourcurriculum to be sure that the programs reflect the state of the field in history, public history and social studies education. The excellent programs we have developed allow our students to go on to good graduate schools, or employment in public history or social studies education. Relationships with Colleagues in Brazil: In March 2016, as part of a Yale Alumni ServiceCorps program, I met UESC environmental studies faculty for the first time. I did not know them, despite two decades as a Brazilianist and strong ties to UESC historians. Different disciplinary paradigms, research methodologies, literature and sources meant that we did not cross paths, professionally or personally. Our experience reflects broader disciplinary trends. To resolve the problems of the cacao area—and by extension those of Brazil and the Americas—we must communicate across disciplinary boundaries. That is why the RDE program has invited me to apply for a Fulbright.Research Project: Although Dean (1995) and Miller (2000) disagree on why the Atlantic Forest in Brazil was destroyed, they agree that it had been devastated by the nineteenth century. Indeed, reading their work, one would not expect to find a single tree in twentieth-century southern Bahia. For Dean, the problem was unregulated logging and export agriculture, while Miller argued that landowners eradicated valuable timber when government regulation threatened their control over their property. Yet, in 1989, southern Bahia was simultaneously home to one of the most important remnants of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest AND one of the largest producers of cacao in the world. In other words, elements of Atlantic Forest had survived in an important export region. Immense divisions between rich and poor, extreme land concentration as well as social and political repression characterized the region, but southern Bahia contained one of Brazil’s most important remaining examples of Atlantic Forest in 1989
Then cacao exports collapsed. In 1989, officials found a cacao disease called Witch’s Broom in southern Bahia for the first time. By 1995, cacao production had plummeted to
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perhaps 25% of 1989 levels, cacao planters and exporters were filing for bankruptcy, some 300,000 rural workers had lost their jobs, and vast slums had grown in the region’s cities and towns. Desperate planters sold their land to anyone who would buy it, and in some cases, even begged the Landless Movement to invade their property in hopes that INCRA, the national land reform agency, would buy them out. Planters who survived turned estates into cattle ranches, in the process destroying both diseased cacao trees and surviving Atlantic Forest. A leadership vacuum developed, out of which developed a new group of environmentally conscious leaders that included faculty based at UESC. Today, southern Bahia is unrecognizable environmentally, economically, politically and socially from the region that Witch’s Broom devastated.
I propose to tell this story, beginning with two articles I will write as a Fulbright Scholar at UESC. The first article will raise questions about the existing literature on the history of the Atlantic Forest, logging and cacao exports using a cultural history analysis of published primary sources, especially foreign travelers’ accounts and scientific reports from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The second article will, for the first time, utilize data on forest cover in twentieth-century southern Bahia that I obtained when researching the social history of cacao. Applications to purchase public lands in southern Bahia housed in the Bahian Public Archive contain surveys indicating how much land was cultivated and how much remained forested. Although the documents do not always indicate what sorts of trees existed on the property, they do reference “construction woods,” the twentieth century term for “madeiras da lei” or “woods-of-law”, in other words, protected hardwoods of an earlier period. Those hardwoods included Brazilwood and jacarandá (Brazilian Rosewood), trees that Floresta Viva is now reintroducing to the region. Using these documents for a new purpose will allow me to contribute to ongoing research at UESC on deforestation in southern Bahia. Work Plan: Two elements of this project can only be carried out in southern Bahia. First, some scientific literature is available only at UESC, the nearby Brazilian government Cacao Research Station (CEPLAC), or the NGOs.. Second, to fully understand the meaning of the documents that I have, I must consult with colleagues or other local residents familiar with the southern Bahian countryside and visit the districts under discussion. I insist that environmental history must combine careful archival research and analysis with observation in the forest. Consequently, during the first month of my tenure, on the days that I am not teaching, I will visit the libraries at UESC and CEPLAC to review the literature. In August, I will draft the literature review and distribute it to colleagues for discussion. In September, I will visit the properties described in the archival documents and observe the condition of the surviving forest cover. I will also review my research notes, and determine which documents I need to revisit and what additional research is required. In October, I will prepare the forest cover article. At the end of the fellowship, I will visit the Public Archive of Bahia to access the additional purchase and sale agreements that my analysis has made clear are lacking. On my return to the U.S., I will be on sabbatical and finalizethe first article for the Journal of Environment and History and the second for the Hispanic American Historical Review, the most important journal in my field.Long-Term Effects of the Fellowship: The project will have several important long-term effects. In Brazil, it will create a cadre of development and environment professionals in southeastern Bahia who are appreciative of and attentive to the insights of history, both environmental and regional. It will also create a cadre of regional geography, history and social
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studies teachers with an appreciation for the history of environmental history. It will also contribute to breaking down barriers between the environmentalists and historians at UESC.
In the United States, I am already planning to offer environmental history in my department. Doing so will allow me to fill a gap in our offerings and contribute more effectively to the International Studies Program. I also plan to propose an environmental history course to our interdisciplinary M.S. in Geography and Global Sustainability.
A Fulbright Fellowship will also allow CCSU and UESC to develop closer ties, contributing to the State of Connecticut’s new Bilingual Education initiative. Two years ago, Connecticut passed a law requiring schools with a minimum of 20 English Language Learners in a given language to offer bilingual education in the target language in all subjects. As of 2015, students speaking Portuguese, and specifically Brazilian Portuguese, constituted the second largest group of English Language Learners in Connecticut schools, but the state had only nine certified bilingual Portuguese teachers. Since 2015, colleagues and I have been working to resolve this teacher. At the suggestion of representatives of the State’s Department of Education, we are also working with the CCSU Center for International Education, the Dean of Education and Professional Studies and the Graduate School to develop a formal student exchange with a Brazilian university in hopes of growing the cadre of teachers fluent in English and Portuguese. As UESC, like CCSU, has a major emphasis on educating future teachers, we have identified it as a Brazilian university with which we would like to work. But effective exchanges require more than signed agreements. The Fulbright Fellowship will allow me to establish the networks at UESC that will allow us to see if the UESC-CCSU connection is a good one for this program.Why another Fulbright? This proposal builds on and grows out of the accomplishments and contributions from my earlier experience as a Fulbright Scholar. My connections with the historians at UESC developed because of my experience at the Federal University of Bahia, where several of them were my students. The dialogue that we developed, in combination withcolleagues on the faculty, enriched all of our work as we debated the relationships between indigenous people, enslaved people, small farmers and elites in southern Bahia. My scholarship improved, my teaching improved, and my understandings of the complexities of both Brazilian and U.S. history grew. My hope is that this project will have the same impact.
The 2002 Fulbright Fellowship has also allowed me to develop close ties with Connecticut’s Brazilian community, and to work with the Brazilian Consulate in Hartford to enhance education in Connecticut that will benefit all residents of the state, including Brazilian immigrants. In recognition of my work, I was made an honorary member of the Advisory Council of Brazilian Citizens in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
I have not spent more than three weeks in Brazil since 2003, and almost no time in southern Bahia, with the exception of the occasional brief scholarly visit.
Mary Ann Mahony Curriculum Vitae/FulbrightDepartment of History July 2016Central Connecticut State University1615 Stanley StreetNew Britain, CT [email protected]
EDUCATION Ph.D., Yale University, Latin American History 1996
Dissertation: The World Cacao Made: Society, Politics and History in Southern Bahia, Brazil, 1822-1919
M.Phil, Yale University, Latin American History, 1988
M.A., Tufts University, Latin American History, 1986
B.A., College of the Holy Cross, Spanish Language and Literature, 1976
Study Abroad, Saint Louis University in Madrid, 1974-5
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTSProfessor, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, 2012-
Associate Professor, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, 2005-present
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, 2003-2005
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Columbia College, 2002-2003
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2000
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTSCoordinator, Latin American Studies Committee, International and Area Studies Program, CCSU, 2007-
HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominee, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012; 2014; 2016; Honor Roll, 2012; 2016
Research Fellow, Project on Demography and Family History, supported by PRONEX,Department of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 2011.
Participant, “Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Instructors, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2003
Fulbright Fellowship for Teaching and Research, Brazil, Graduate Program in History, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2002
Fellowship for University Professors, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001
2PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed published or accepted for publication:“A Vida e os Tempos de João Gomes: Escravidão, negociação e resistência no Atlântico Negro” (The Life and Times of João Gomes: Slavery, Negotiation and Resistance in the Black Atlantic), Special Issue on the Atlantic World. Revista Crítica Histórica. Nº 13, 2016. http://www.revista.ufal.br/criticahistorica/ Online jornal, n/p.
English Translation of and Introduction to The Crossroads of Freedom, by Walter Fraga Filho, Duke University Press, 2016. (Encruzilhadas da Liberdade, Editora UNICAMP, 2006, winner of the 2011 American Historical Association’s Clarence H. Haring Prize).
Mulher, família e estatuto social no sul da Bahia: entre a escravidão e a liberdade (c. 1850 – c. 1920). In: Libby, Douglas Cole, Meneses, José Newton Coelho, Furtado, Júnia Ferreira, e Frank, Zephyr L.. (orgs.). Família e Demografia em Minas Gerais: 1600-1920. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2015, 295-329.
“Lo local y lo mundial: factores internos y externos del desarrollo del sector del cacao en Bahía,” revised Spanish edition of “The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector,” in Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. “From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000,” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). Forthcoming, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico.
“Em Busca de Mejigã e sua família: um diálogo entre a oralidade e a documentação escrita” in Ruy Povoas, org. Mejiga e o contexto da escravidão, EDITUS: Editora da UESC, 2012, pp. 97-138.
“Creativity Under Constraint: Enslaved Families, Enslaved Afro-Brazilian Families in Brazil’s Area, 1870-1890,” Journal of Social History, 41:3, Spring 2008, pp. 633-666.
AFrom Slaves to Sergipanos: Gender, Labour and Family in Brazil=s Cacao Area, 1872-1920" in Enrico del Lago and Constantina Katsari, eds. From Captivity to Freedom: Themes in Ancient and Modern Slavery.Leicester Archaeology Monograph, 15; Leicester, England: School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, 2008. pp. 71-92.
Translation of Walter Fraga Filho, “The Abolition of Slavery and Plans for Freedom in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” (originally Abolição da escravidão e projetos de liberdade no Brasil, final do Século XIX), in Enrico del Lago and Constantina Katsari, eds. From Captivity to Freedom. Leicester, England: School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, 2008. pp. 147-166.
“Um Passado para justificar o presente: Memória Coletiva, Representação Hisória e donimação política na região cacaueira da Bahia,” Revista Especiarie. v. 10 no. 18 jul-dez 2007, pp. 737-793, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, (Portuguese edition, revised and expanded, of “A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Historical Representation, Collective Memory and Elite Rule in Twentieth-Century Southern Bahia, Brazil.” Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, fall 2008.
“The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector,” in Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. “From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000,” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 174-203.
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“‘Instrumentos necessários: ’ Escravidão e posse de escravos no sul da Bahia no século dezenove” Afro-Ásia, no. 25-26, (2001), pp. 95-139.
“A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Historical Representation, Collective Memory and Elite Rule in Twentieth-Century Southern Bahia, Brazil,” in Gilbert Joseph, eds., Reestablishing the Political in Latin American History: A View from the North, Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 102-37 . "Afro-Brazilians, Land Reform, and the Question of Social Mobility in Southern Bahia, 1880-1920," Luso-Brazilian Review 34, no. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 59-79 reprinted in Kraay, Hendrik, ed., The Politics and Culture of Afro-Bahia: 1790s-1970s, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, January 1998), pp. 90-116.
WORK IN PROGRESSColor, Class and Cacao: Social Mobility in a Brazilian Agricultural Region, 1850-1920, book manuscript in preparation.
“Taking the Fall: Solidarity, Negotiation, and Manipulation in the Nineteenth-Century Brazil” in preparation for submission to Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies.
“Children’s Labor and Social Mobility Among Family Farmers in Brazil’s Cacao Region, 1870-1920,” article length manuscript in preparation
“The Children of Santanna: Orality, History and the Legacy of a Slave Revolt,” article in preparation for submission to the Luso-Brazilian Review
BOOK REVIEWSA gripe espanhola na Bahia: saude politica e medicina em tempos de epidemia by Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. (EDUFBa/Editora Fio Cruz, 2009), Historia de ciência e saude-Manguinhos. Vol 19 no. 4 Out/Dez 2012, pp. 1341-43.
Legalizando Identidades: uma resenha de Legalizing Identities by Jan Hoffman French (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009) in Áfro-Ásia Vol 42 (2010) pp. 259-263.
Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast by Jan Hoffman French. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009) in The Americas. Vol 67:4. April , 2011, pp. 576-577.A Place in Politics: From Seignieurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt by James Woodward (Duke University Press) in Journal of Social History, Vol. 44:2, Winter 2010, pp. 644-646.
A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro. By Brodwyn Fischer (Stanford University Press, 2008) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Volume 41:2. Autumn 2010, pp. 330-331.
From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835-1900 by Dale Torsten Graden (University of New Mexico Press, 2007) in The Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol. 41 (2009). Pp. 161-162.
4Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Social Science History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003 reviewed in Hispanic American Historic Review, 2005.
In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. By Steve Striffler. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002 reviewed in Hispanic American Historic Review, August 2003, pp. 598-599.
PAPERS PRESENTED“Children’s Labor and Social Mobility Among Family Farmers in Brazil’s Cacao Region, 1870-1920,” paper presented at the panel on Child Labor in the History of Latin America, a Joint Session of the American Historical Association, the Conference on Latin American History and the Labor and Working Class History Association, 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 7-10, 2016.
"Mulher, família e estatuto social no sul da Bahia: entre a escravidão e a liberdade (c. 1850 – c. 1920)" presented at the final conference of the PRONEX research Project, "Família e demografia em Minas Gerais, séculos XVIII, XIX e XX", financed by Fapemig and CNPq, March 2014.
Mothers and Daughters in Slavery and Freedom: Genealogy, Family and Social Mobility in Nineteenth Century Brazil presented at the Bi-annual meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, Champaign-Urbana, September, 2012.
The Children of Santana: From Rebels to Freed people on a Bahian Frontier presented at the Bi-annual meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, Brasília, July, 2010.
“Negro,” “Indio,” Neither or Both: Negotiating Race and Ethnicity on a Twentieth Century Brazilian Agricultural Frontier presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, 2009.
“Shaping Self in a South Atlantic World: Ethnicity, Solidarity and Negotiation Among the Enslaved of Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, GA, January, 2007.
In the Footsteps of Their Fathers: Family Labor, Enslaved and Free, in Brazil's Cacao Area1870-1920, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA,
January 2006.
“From Slaves to Sergipanos: Gender, Labor and Family in Brazil’s Cacao Area, 1872-1920 to bepresented at the International Conference on slave Systems, Ancient and Modern, Centre forthe Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Nov., 2004.
SELECTED INVITED LECTURESFamília escrava no sul da Bahia, Departamento de História, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, June 2011.
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Família escrava no sul da Bahia. Department of History, Federal University of the Bahian Recôncavo, July, 2008.
Escravidão e resisência no sul da Bahia: Famílias no Sul da Bahia. Department of History, Universidade Estadual da Santa Cruz, June, 2008..
Novas perspectivas da escravidão baiana. Departments of Geography and History, State University of Santa Catarina, May, 2008.
Em busca da familia escrava no Brasil: Debates e documentação do sul da Bahia. Department of History, Federal University of Santa Catarina, May 2008.
In the Footsteps of Their Fathers?: Family Labor, Enslaved and Free, in Brazil's Cacao Area 1870-1920 at the Boston Area Latin American History Seminar sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University, November 16, 2005
“Solidarity, Negotiation, and Manipulation among the Enslaved of Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” Department of History, Brandeis University, April 2005
Produtos do seu próprio esforço: mobilidade social, memória coletiva e domínio elitista nasrepresentações históricas da zona cacaueira da Bahia, July 5, 2002, [Products of their own efforts: Social mobility, collective memory and elite domination in the historical representationsof the cacao zone of Bahia] Seminários de Antropologia e História, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, [Seminar in Anthropology and History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
História e histórias do sul da Bahia [History and Stories about southern Bahia] Programa de Posgraduação em Antropologia Social [Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology], Museu Nacional do Brazil [National Museum of Brazil], Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, July, 2002.
“Formando e reformando o passado: representação histórica, memória coletiva e poder no sul da Bahia,” [Shaping and Reshaping the Past: Historical Representation, Collective Memory and Power in Southern Bahia] presented at the Program of Postgraduate Studies in History, University of Brasília, June, 1999.
“Pequenos produtores, mobilidade social, e reforma agrária: o caso da zona cacaueira da Bahia,”[“Small Producers, Social Mobility, and Agrarian Reform: The Case of the Cacao Zone in Bahia”] presented at the Program of Postgraduate Studies in History, University of Brasília, June 1999.
STUDENT PRIZESMatthew Bannon, Library Research Prize, 2008, Margojata Zarac, Prize for Best History 301 Paper, spring 2008.
SELECTED SENIOR THESES ADVISED (CCSU)Lisseth Rodrigues, “Camilo Torres, Colombian Revolutionary Priest”Isamar Rodriguez, “Cuba-Nicaragua Relations” (In process)
6Kory Mills, , “U.S.-Cuban Relations”Angelica Rodriguez, “Central American Immigration to the U.S.”Agnieszka Berkman, “Central American Migration to the U.S.”Carina Francisco, “Dominican Bodega Owners in Hartford”Celeste Rodrigues-Lima, “Commemorating the Portuguese ‘Discovery of Brazil in 2000”Katherine Golub, “The Congressional Black Caucus and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (Co-advised with
Abigail Adams, Associate Professor of Anthropology)GRADUATE THESES OR SPECIAL PROJECTS ADVISED OR IN PROCESS, CCSU (MA students)
Puerto Rican Women in Connecticut History, Omayra Cintrón (in process)“Tourism in Northeastern Brazil,” Ana Leite, 2015“A Multicultural Colombia,” Shauntel Martin (in process)“Military in Argentina,” Aaron Rozovsky, 2010“Terrorism in Nicaragua,” Rocio Heredia“Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala” Lisa Harlow“Review of Curricular Materials for a High School Course in Latin American History,” Daniel Marak, 2004
BRAZILIAN “SANDWICH” FELLOWSHIPS ADVISEDMarileide Lázara Cassoli, PH.D. Candidate, Dept. of History, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 2013
BRAZILIAN M.A. THESIS DEFENSE PARTICIPATION:Virlene Cardoso Moreira, “A Freguesia de São Félix: transporte e dinâmica comercial (1857-1889)”,
M.A. Thesis, UFBA Department of History, Lina Maria B. de Aras, adviser.PhD. DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Teresinha Marcis, Department of History, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Ph.D. 2013, “Aintegração dos Índios como súditos do Rei de Portugal: analysis do projeto, dos autores e da implementação na Capitania de Ilheós, 1758-1822.
William Svelmoe, Department of History, Ph.D. 2000; Dissertation Title: “A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend in Guatemala and Mexico, 1917-1945", 2000, directed by George Marsden, (University of Notre Dame)
Anthony Mora, Department of History, “Meslillaros and Gringo Mexicans: Race and the(Re)construction of Mexican Identity in 19th Century," 2002, Directed by GailBederman, (University of Notre Dame)
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE FIELDContributing Editor, History of Brazil from Empire through the First Republic (1822-1930), Handbook of
Latin American Studies, Library of Congress Hispanic Division, 2016.Proposal Reviewer, Fulbright Fellowships for Graduate Study, 2016Participant and lecturer, Yale Alumni Service Corps Service Trip to Serra Grande, Bahia.Honorary Member, Council of Brazilian Citizens, Hartford, CT, 2015-Executive Committee Member, New England Council on Latin American Studies, 2011-13Proposal Reviewer, Fellowships Division, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005, 2009, 2016Proposal Reviewer, Kluge Fellowships Competition, Library of Congress, 2006Chair, Brazilian Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2002-2003Manuscript Reviewer, Revista da História Brasileira; Luso-Brazilian Review; Americas; Afro-Asia;
Hispanic American Historical Review; Journal of International Business History; Radical History Review
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Selected Primary Sources:Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia, Seção Republicana, Processos de Compra e Venda de
Terras, 1898-1930.________. Seção Histórico, Série Madeiras; Serie Guarda Nacional, IlhéusForo Epaminondas Berbert de Castro/Primeiro Cartório da Vara Civil, Ação de Medição e
Demarcação dos terrenos do Engenho Almada requeridas pela proprietária D. Maria Victoria Mendes de Cerqueira Lima, 1892.
Biblioteca Nacional, BN 22-2-41, Auto de Tombo feito em huma e outra margem do Rio de Itahipe, 1799, 24 maio pelo Dr. Ouvidor Geral, provedor e Juiz Conservador das Mattas, Baltazar da Silva Lisboa.
_______. I-332.16.30, manuscritos; Câmara Municipal de Ilhéus, Bahia ao Illmo Sr. Dr.Benhamin Franklin Ramiz Galvao, 13 julho 1881.
Selected Secondary Sources:Aguiar, José O., and Catarina de O. Buriti. “Meio ambiente e cultura nas capitanias do nordeste
brasileira colonial: nacionalismo e reformismo ilustrada na obra do naturalista viajanteManuel Arruda Da Câmara (1793-1814).” História (São Paulo) 28, no. 1 (2009): 347–80.
Al Jazeera. “A World without Chocolate”. Accessed July 25, 2016. http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/world-without-chocolate/index.html.
Armeiro, Marco and Lise Sedrez. A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Bailey, Bryan A, and Lyndel W Meinhardt. Cacao Diseases: A History of Old Enemies and New Encounters, 2016.
Brannstrom, Christian. “Repensando a Mata Atlântica Brasileira: Cobertura Vegetal e Valor Da Terra No Oeste Paulista, 1900 a 1930. ” Varia História, 2002, 58–76.
———. Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental History in the 19th and 20th Centuries. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004
______. “Was Brazilian Industrialization Fueled by Wood?: Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900-1960.” Environment and History, 2005, 395–430.
Cabral, Diogo de Carvalho, and Susana Cesco. “Árvores Do Rio, Floresta Do Povo: A Instituição das ‘madeiras-de-Lei’ no Rio de Janeiro e na Ilha de Santa Catarina (Brasil) no Final do Período Colonial.” Luso-Brazilian Review 44, no. 2 (December 2007): 50–86.
Carey, Mark. “Latin American Environmental History: Current Trends, Interdisciplinary Insights, and Future Directions.” Environmental History 14, no. 2 (2009): 221–52.
_____. “The Nature of Place: Recent Research on Environment and Society in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review 42, no. 3 (2007): 251–64.
Chiapetti, Rita Jaqueline Nogueira, and Jorge Chiapetti. “A água e os rios: imagens e imaginário da natureza. ” Geograficidade 1, no. 1 (January 14, 2012): 67–86.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Dean, Warren. Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
______. “Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil.” In Global Deforestation and the 19th C WorldEconomy, ed. R. P. Tucker and J. F. Richards, Duke University Press, 1983, 50–67.
______. “The Tasks of Latin American Environmental History.” In Changing Tropical Forests:Historical Perspectives on Today’s Challenges in Central and South America, edited byHarold K. Steen and Richard P. Tucker, 5-15. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society,
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1992. ______. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Drummond, José Augusto. Devastação e preservação ambiental. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da
Universidade Federal Fluminense, 1997._______. Natural Resources, the Environment, and Development of the Brazilian Amazon: A
Multi-Dimensional Debate.” História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 6 (2000): 1135–77.Duarte, Regina Horta. “Pássaros e Cientistas No Brasil: Em Busca de Proteção, 1894-1938.”
Latin American Research Review 41, no. 1 (2006): 3–26.Fadel, Simone. Entre o saneamento e meio ambiente: Política e engenharia no final do Império
e na Primeira República. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond Universitária, 2009.Ferry, Robert. The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation & Crisis, 1567-1767Freitas, Antônio Fernando Guerreiro de. “Au Brésil: Deux régions da Bahia, 1896-1937”. Tèse
Doctorat, Universiteì de Lille III, 1993.Freitas, Antônio Fernando Guerreiro de and Maria Hilda Parqueiro Paraiso. Caminos ao
encontro do mundo: A capitania, os frutos do ouro e a princesa do sul, Ilhéus, 1534-1940. Ilhéus, Bahia: Editora UESC, 2001 (?).
Galvão, A. Paulo M., Vanderley Porfírio-da Silva, eds. Restauração Florestal: Fundamentos E Estudos de Caso. Colombo, Brazil: Embrapa Florestas, 2005.
Hochstedler, Katheryn and Margaret Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007.
Hong, Ngit-Ming. Development History of Zero-Shade Cocoa and Its Theories: Let There Be Light. Sabah, Malaysia: TG, 2002.
Melville, Elinor. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Klubock, Thomas Miller. La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2014.
Lemos, José de Jesus Sousa. “Níveis de Degradação No Nordeste Brasileiro.” REN: Revista Econômica Do Nordeste 32, no. 3 (2001): 406–29.
Magalhães, Antônio Carlos, eds Sociedades Indígenas Transformações Ambientais. Série Universidade E Meio Ambiente 6. Belém, Brazil: Univ. Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Meio Ambiente, 1993.
Mahony, Mary Ann. “The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector,” in S. Topik, C. Marichal, and Z. Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 174-203.
“Mapas SOS Mata Atlântica.” Accessed July 24, 2016. http://mapas.sosma.org.br/.Martinez, Paulo Henrique, ed. História Ambiental Paulista: Temas, Fontes E Métodos. São
Paulo: Editora Senac São Paulo, 2007._______. “Laboratório de História E Meio Ambiente: Estratégia Institucional Na Formação
Continuada de Historiadores.” Revista Brasileira de História 24, no. 48 (2004): 233–51.Miller, Shawn William. An Environmental History of Latin America. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.______. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil’s Colonial Timber. Stanford,
Calif: Stanford Univ. Press, 2000.Montagnini, Florencia, Anna Fanzares, and Sérgio Guimarães da Vinha. “Studies on Restoration
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Ecology in the Atlantic Forest Region of Bahia, Brazil” Interciencia/Caracas, 19, no. 6 (1994): 323–30.
Oliveira, Rogério Ribeiro de and Verena Winiwarter. “Toiling in Paradise: Knowledge Acquisition in the Context of Colonial Agriculture in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.” Environment and History 16, no. 4 (November 2010): 483–508.
Pádua, José Augusto. “‘Aniquilando as Naturais Produções’: Crítica Iluminista, Crise Colonial E as Origens Do Ambientalismo Político No Brasil, 1786-1810.” Dados 42, no. 3 (1999): 497–538.
———. “‘Cultura Esgotadora’: Agricultura E Destruição Ambiental Nas Últimas Décadas Do Brasil Império.” Estudos Sociedade E Agricultura, 1998, 134–63.
______. Um sopro de destruição: pensamento político e crítica ambiental no Brasil escravista (1786-1888) Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar, 2002,
Painter, Michael, and William H. Durham, eds. The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Paraiso, Maria Hilda Barqueiro. O tempo da dor e do trabalho: a conquista dos territórios indígenas nos sertões do leste. Salvador, Bahia: EDUFBA, 2014.
“Projeto Corredores – Corredor Central da Mata Atlantica.pdf.” Accessed July 22, 2016. http://www.meioambiente.ba.gov.br/arquivos/File/Publicacoes/Cadernos/CorredorCentraldaMataAtlantica.pdf.
Reis, João José. Escravos e coteiros no quilombo do Oitizeiro, Bahia, 1806. In: Reis, João Joséand Gomes, Fávio dos Santos. Liberdade por um Fio: A história dos quilombos noBrasil. 2. ed. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000, pp. 332-372.
Rodrigues, Gomercindo. Trans: Linda Rabben. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2007.
Rogers, Thomas D. The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Scarano, Rabio Rucio. Mata Atlântica: Uma história do futuro. Conservação Internacional, 2014.
Schwartz, Stuart. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Sedrez, Lise Fernanda. “‘The Bay of All Beauties’: State and Environment in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875-1975,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan. 2004.
Silva, Ayalla Oliveira. “Territorialização e Trabalho: Atuação Dos Aldeados de Ferradas No Processo de Ocupação E Exploração Territorial, No Sul Da Bahia (Século XIX).” Revista Mundos Do Trabalho Vol 5, no. 12 (2014): 131–52.
Soluri, John. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
Sombrio, Mariana Moraes de Oliveira, Maria Margaret Lopes, and Lea Maria Leme Strini Velho. “Practices and Disputes about the Scientific-Cultural: Heritage Bertha Lutz’s and the Brazilian Inspection Council on Artistic and Scientific Expeditions.” Varia Historia24, no. 39 (June 2008): 311–27
Webb, Thomas J. “Forest Cover-Rainfall Relationships in a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Atlantic Forest of Brazil.” Ecological Applications 15, no. 6 (December 2005): 1968–83.
Weinstein, Barbara. The Amazon Rubber Boom: 1850-1920. Stanford University Press, 1983.
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Graduate CourseProgram in Development and Environment
State University of Santa Cruz2017
Course description: What is history and how does it help us to understand the present and plan for the future? In particular, how does environmental history help us to reflect on and think through challenges in development and environmentalism? This course for graduate students in the UESC Program in Development and Environment will address these questions, while also introducing students to the debates in environmental history of the Americas, as well as methodologies and sources of historians. We cannot cover all the relative literature, so the course will emphasize themes of importance to students in the program, including the history of tropical forests, the history of export agricultural regions, and the representation of nature and human’s interactions with the natural world from the colonial period to the present.
Southern Bahia has been the subject of some of the most influential scholarship on environmental history and on the history of export agricultural regions in Latin America. Students will have the opportunity, therefore, to examine that literature critically in the context of primary sources available for research about the region and visits to the districts discussed.
The course will particularly address the following question: What is history and how does it help us analyze the relationship between society and the environment? Are “narratives of tragedy” the only way to consider Latin American environmental History? Is tropical civilization unsustainable? Has the history of settlement and economic development in the Americas always been the history of destruction? Has the type of settlement (rural/agricultural; urban) mattered to questions of environmental sustainability? What does the history of the cacao area offer as insight into how to look at the question? How have foreign travelers, Brazilian novelists and others represented the forest? How do we explain the emergence of conservation movements in the twentieth century?
The following books will be made available:
CROSBY, A. Imperialismo Ecológico: A Expansão Biológica da Europa: 900-1900. Rio de Janeiro: Companhia das Letras, 1993. (Translation of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900).
DEAN, Warren. A ferro e fogo: a história e a devastacão da Mata Atlântica brasileira. Companhia das Letras. 1997 (Translation of With Broadax and Firebrand, University of
California Press, 1995 De Lery, Jean. Jean de Lery História de uma viagem feita à terra do Brasil, também chamada
América. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Batel, 2009. (Translation of History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, also called América.)
MELVILLE, E. Plaga de ovejas: Consecuencias ambientales de la Conquista de México.México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999. (Translation of A Plague of Sheep)
SCHWARTZ, Stuart. Segredos Internos: Engenhos e Escravos na sociedade colonial.
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Companhia das Letras, 2005. (Translation of Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society, Bahia, 1550-1835.)
SOLURI, John. Culturas bananeras : producción, consumo y transformacionessocioambientales, Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2013. (Translation of Banana Cultures:Production, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United
States).Supplies: All students should acquire a pair of inexpensive boots appropriate for wear in rural areas and a pair of gardening gloves. Most hardware stores have such equipment.
Requirements: Complete all weekly readingsAttend all class meetings, and remain in the classroom for the entire class periodOral and written presentation of a collection of primary sources related to environmental historyOral and written presentation on a traveler’s account of a voyage to Brazil (see below)Oral presentation of one week’s reading to stimulate class discussion and debateResearch paper on some topic related to environmental history based on primary sources and
scholarly secondary sources. Topics will be determined in consultation with the professor. Due the week after classes end.
Weeks 1 and 2: Concepts and Methods in History and the Environment
Reading: Dean, A ferro e fogo, IntroductionCrosby, Imperialismo Ecológico,, IntroductionMelville, Una plaga de ovejas, IntroductionCarey, Mark. “Latin American Environmental History: Current Trends, Interdisciplinary
Insights, and Future Directions.” Environmental History 14, no. 2 (2009): 221–52.McNeill, John R. “Naturaleza y cultura de la historia ambiental.” Revista Nómadas (Bogotá,
Colombia) 22 (Abril 2005):12-22. (Nature and Culture in Environmental History)Martinez, Paolo Henrique de. “Desafios para um história ambiental do Brasil.” Revista
Nómadas (Bogotá, Colombia) 22 (Abril 2005): 26-35. (Challenges for an environmentalhistory of Brazil)
Palacio, Germán, “Is there any ´Latin´ in the Latin American environmental history? Newchallenges for the consolidation of a regional intellectual community. HALAC, Vol. 1:2, 2012, pp. 157-179.
Gallini, Stefania. “Una invitación a una história ambiental,” Revista Tareas, 120. (Na Invitation to Environmental History)
Weeks 3, 4, 5: Creating an Atlantic EnvironmentReading: Crosby, Imperialismo Ecologico, finishMelville, Uma plaga de ovejas, finish
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Jean de Lery História de uma viagem feita à terra do Brasil, também chamada América. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Batel, 2009. (History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, also calledAmérica.
Carney, Judith Ann. “Una valoración de la geografía y la diáspora africana”. (Tabula Rasa, 4, enero/junio 2006, p. 145-163. (A valorization of Geography and the AfricanDiaspora)
Carney, Judith and Rosa Acevedo Marin. “Aportes dos escravos na história docultivo do arroz africano nas Américas.” Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, Estud. Soc.
Agric., 12, abril 1999, p. 113-133. (Slaves in the history of the cultivation of African rice in the Americas)
Weeks 5- 7: Timber and TimberingOliveira, Rogério Ribeiro de and Verena Winiwarter. “Toiling in Paradise: Knowledge
Acquisition in the Context of Colonial Agriculture in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.” Environment and History 16, no. 4 (November 2010): 483–508.
Dean, Ferro e Fogo, finishBrannstrom, Christian. Repensando a Mata Atlântica brasileira: cobertura vegetal e valor da
terra no oeste paulista, 1900 a 1930. Varia História, 26, jan. 2002, p. 58-76. (Rethinkingthe Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Plant cover and land values in the Paulista west)
Cabral, Diogo de Carvalho, and Susana Cesco. “Árvores Do Rio, Floresta Do Povo: A Instituição das ‘madeiras-de-Lei’ no Rio de Janeiro e na Ilha de Santa Catarina (Brasil) no Final do Período Colonial.” Luso-Brazilian Review 44, no. 2 (December 2007): 50–86.(Rio’s Trees, the People’s Forest: The institution of “protected hardwoods in Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina Island at the end of the Colonial Period.)
Weeks 8-10: Export Agriculture and the EnvironmentReading: Schwartz, Segredos Internos: Engenhos e Escravos na sociedade colonial. Ferry, Robert. The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation & Crisis, 1567-1767Mahony, Mary Ann. “The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the
Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector,” in S. Topik, C. Marichal, and Z. Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 174-203.
Soluri, John. Culturas bananeras Brannstrom, Christian. “‘Cultura Esgotadora’: Agricultura e Destruição Ambiental Nas Últimas
Décadas Do Brasil Império.” Estudos Sociedade E Agricultura, 1998, 134–63.(Throwaway culture: Agriculture and Environmental destruction in the last decades ofthe Brazilian Empire).
Weeks 11-12 Environmental Activism:Brannstrom, Christian. Um sopro de destruição: pensamento político e crítica ambiental no
Brasil escravista (1786-1888) Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar, 2002, (Political thought and environmental criticismo during the period of slavery in Brazil, 178-1888)
Rodrigues, Gomercindo. Trans: Linda Rabben. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2007.Hochstedler, Katheryn and Margaret Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State
and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007.
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Week 13: Presentation and Discussion of research papers
Traveler’s and Other Published Accounts for evaluation:Avé-Lallemant, Robert. Viagem pelo Norte do Brasil no Ano de 1859, trans. Eduardo de Lima
Castro. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, Ministerio da Educação e Cultura, 1961.(Travel through the north of Brazil in 1859)
Câmara, Manoel Ferreira da. "Ensaio de descripção fizica, e economica da Comarca de São Jorge
dos Ilheós," Memórias Economicas da Academia das Sciencias da Lisboa. 1 (1789): 304-
350. (Essay on the Physical description and the economy of the County of Saint Jorge ofthe Islands)
De Lery, Jean. História de uma viagem feita à terra do Brasil, também chamada América. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Batel, 2009. (History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, also called America).
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Mato Virgem. Trans. Moema Parente Augel Editora da UESC,
2010. (Virgin Forest)Sá e Betencourt, José de. Memoria sobre a plantação dos algodões, e sua exportação; sobre a
decadencia da lavoura de mandiocas, no Termo da Villa de Camamú, Comarca dos Ilhéos, Governo da Bahia, 1793. (Memoir on the planting of cotton and its export; aboutthe decadence of manioc cultivation in the village of Camamú in the county of Ilheus.)
Silva Lisboa, Balthasar da. "Memoria sobre a comarca dos Ilhéos,"(Memoir on Ilhéus county) inAlmeida, Inventario dos documentos relativos ao Brasil existentes no Archivo da
Marinha e Ultramar de Lisboa," 5 vols. in Annaes da Biblioteca Nacional Vols 32-37, 1913-1918. V Bahia, 1801-1807.
. "Officio do Ouvidor da comarca dos Ilhéos Balthasar da Silva Lisboa para D. Rodrigo deSousa Coutinho, no qual lhe communica uma interessante informação sobre a comarca
dos Ilhéos, a sua origem, a sua agricultura, commercio, população e preciosas mattas. Cairú 20 de março de 1799," (Report of the Overseer of Ilhéus county...in which hecommunicates interesting information about the county, its origin and its agriculture, commerce and precioius forests) in Castro e Almeida, Inventario dos documentos relativos ao Brasil existentes no Archivo da Marinha e Ultramar de Lisboa," 5 vols. in Annaes da Biblioteca Nacional Vols 32-37, 1913-1918, IV, Bahia, 1798-1801.
Spix e Martius. Viagem pelo Brasil, 1817-1820. (Voyage to Brazil) 3 vols. Translated by LúciaFurquim Lahmeyer. Revised and Annoted by B. R. Ramiz Galvão e Basilio de
Magalhães. 3rd ed. São Paulo: Edições Melhoramento. 1976.
Staden, Hans. Hans Staden: primeiros registros escritos e ilustrados sobre o Brasil e seus habitantes. São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 1999. (Hans Staden: The first written and illustrated registers about Brazil and its inhabitants.)
Weid von Neuweid, Maximiliano. Viagem ao Brasil. (Voyage to Brazil) Translated by Edgar
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Sussekind de Mendonça e Flavio Poppe de Figueiredo. Revised and Annotated by Pliveirio Pinto. 2nd ed., São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1958.
Selected Web Resources:
Stanford University Website on Latin American Environmental History: http://web.stanford.edu/group/LAEH/html/latinamerica.htm
SOLCHA: Sociedade Latinoamericana e Caribena de História Ambiental:https://solcha.uniandes.edu.co/index/
Revista de História Ambiental Latinoamericano y Caribeña.http://revistas.unicentro.br/index.php/halac/index
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH): http://www.aseh.net/
European Society for Environmental History (ESEH): http://eseh.org/
Mahony Draft Syllabus 2Rethinking the relationship between history and the environment
Departments of History and GeographyState University of Santa Cruz
2017-2018
Course description: Southern Bahia has been the subject of some of the most influential scholarship on environmental history and on the history of export agricultural regions in Latin America. In this course, students will have the opportunity to examine that literature critically in the context of primary sources available for research about the region and visits to the districts discussed. The course will particularly address the following questions: How does an understanding of environmental history help us to analyze historical phenomena? Are “narratives of tragedy” the only way to consider Latin American environmental History? Has the history of settlement and economic development in the Americas always been the history of environmental destruction? What does the history of the cacao area offer as insight into how to look at the question? How have foreign travelers, Brazilian novelists and others represented the forest? How do we explain the emergence of conservation movements in the twentieth century?
The following books will be made available:
CROSBY, A. Imperialismo Ecológico: A Expansão Biológica da Europa: 900-1900. Rio de Janeiro: Companhia das Letras, 1993. (Translation of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900).
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DEAN, Warren. A ferro e fogo: a história e a devastacão da Mata Atlântica brasileira. Companhia das Letras. 1997 (Translation of With Broadax and Firebrand, University of
California Press, 1995 (available in Portuguese translation)SOLURI, John. Culturas bananeras : producción, consumo y transformaciones
socioambientales, Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2013. (Translation of Banana Cultures:Production, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United
States).Supplies: All students should acquire a pair of inexpensive boots appropriate for wear in rural areas and a pair of gardening gloves. Most hardware stores have such equipment.
Requirements: Complete all weekly readingsAttend all class meetings, and remain in the classroom for the entire class periodOral and written presentation on a traveler’s account of a voyage to Brazil (see below)Short research paper on some topic related to environmental history based on primary sources
and scholarly secondary sources. Topics will be determined in consultation with the professor. Due the week after classes end.
Weeks 1 and 2: Concepts and Methods in Environmental History
Reading: Dean, A ferro e fogo, IntroductionCrosby, Imperialismo Ecológico, IntroductionMelville, Una plaga de ovejas, IntroductionMartinez, Paolo Henrique de. “Desafios para um história ambiental do Brasil.” Revista
Nómadas (Bogotá, Colombia) 22 (Abril 2005): 26-35. (Challenges for the environmentalhistory of Brazil)
Martinez, Paulo Henrique “Laboratório de História e Meio Ambiente: Estratégia Institucional na Formação Continuada de Historiadores.” Revista Brasileira de História 24, no. 48 (2004): 233–51. (The laboratory of History and Environment: Istitutional strategies in the continuing education of historians)
Weeks 3, 4, 5: Creating an Atlantic EnvironmentReading: Crosby, Imperialismo Ecologico, finishCarney, Judith and Rosa Acevedo Marin. “Aportes dos escravos na história do
cultivo do arroz africano nas Américas.” Estudos de Sociedade e Agricultura, 12, abril 1999, p. 113-133. (Slaves and the history of African Rice Cultivation in the Americas)
Weeks 5- 7: Timber and TimberingDean, Ferro e Fogo, finishBrannstrom, Christian. Repensando a Mata Atlântica brasileira: cobertura vegetal e valor da
terra no oeste paulista, 1900 a 1930. Varia História, 26, jan. 2002, p. 58-76. (Rethinkingthe Atlantic Forest)
Weeks 8-10: Export Agriculture and the Environment
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Reading: Schwartz, Segredos Internos: Engenhos e Escravos na sociedade colonial. (Trans. Sugar Plantations and the Formation of Brazilian Society)
Mahony, Mary Ann. “The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector,” in S. Topik, C. Marichal, and Z. Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 174-203.
Brannstrom, Christian. “‘Cultura Esgotadora’: Agricultura e Destruição Ambiental Nas Últimas Décadas Do Brasil Império.” Estudos Sociedade E Agricultura, 1998, 134–63. (Throw away Culture: Agriculture and Environmental Destruction in the Last Decades of the Brazilian Empire.)
Weeks 11-12 Environmental Activism:Brannstrom, Christian. Um sopro de destruição: pensamento político e crítica ambiental no
Brasil escravista (1786-1888) Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar, 2002. (Political thought and environmental criticismo in Brazil under slavery)
Rodrigues, Gomercindo. Trans: Linda Rabben. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2007.
Week 13: Presentation and Discussion of research papers
Traveler’s and Other Published Accounts for evaluation:Avé-Lallemant, Robert. Viagem pelo Norte do Brasil no Ano de 1859, trans. Eduardo de Lima
Castro. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, Ministerio da Educação e Cultura, 1961. (Travel to the north of Brazil)
Câmara, Manoel Ferreira da. "Ensaio de descripção fizica, e economica da Comarca de São Jorge
dos Ilheós," Memórias Economicas da Academia das Sciencias da Lisboa. 1 (1789): 304-
350. (Essay on the hhysical description and economy of the county of Saint George of theIslands)
de Lery, Jean. História de uma viagem feita à terra do Brasil, também chamada América. Riode Janeiro: Editora Batel, 2009. (History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, also calledAmérica. (History of travel to Brazil, also called America)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Mato Virgem. Trans. Moema Parente Augel Editora da UESC,
2010. (Virgen Forest)Sá e Betencourt, José de. Memoria sobre a plantação dos algodões, e sua exportação; sobre a
decadencia da lavoura de mandiocas, no Termo da Villa de Camamú, Comarca dos Ilhéos, Governo da Bahia, 1793. (Memoir about planting and exporting cotton; about the decline of manioc cultivation in Camamú, Ilhéus county.)
Spix e Martius. Viagem pelo Brasil, 1817-1820. 3 vols. Translated by Lúcia Furquim Lahmeyer. Revised and Annoted by B. R. Ramiz Galvão e Basilio de Magalhães. 3rd ed. São Paulo: Edições Melhoramento. 1976. (Travel to Brazil)
Staden, Hans. Hans Staden: primeiros registros escritos e ilustrados sobre o Brasil e seus habitantes. São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 1999.
Weid von Neuweid, Maximiliano. Viagem ao Brasil. Translated by Edgar Sussekind de Mendonça
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e Flavio Poppe de Figueiredo. Revised and Annotated by Pliveirio Pinto. 2nd ed., São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1958. (Travel to Brazil)
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Draft Syllabus 3: History and Memory in the Americas
UESC Departments of History and Geography
Description: This course studies the ways in which individuals and social groups have been represented and have represented themselves in Latin American history, drawing on broader theories of social memory, narrative and subjectivity in history. It aims to explore whether an “objective truth” about the past can be ascertained or whether history and fiction are equally valid narratives about the past. Special attention will be devoted to the environment.
REQUIRED READING1.) Books: The following books are available at the Campus bookstore and/or the University library
Jorge Amado. The Violent Land. Any edition.Michel-Rolph Trouillot Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.
Beacon Press, 1997.,Donald Stevens. Based on a True Story: Latin America at the Movies.
SR Books, 2005Daniel James, Doña Maria: História de vida, memoria e identidade política,
Buenos Aires, Maniantal, 2004. (Trans. Doña Maria’s Story)
Requirements:Research Paper: 25%Midterm: 25%Final: 25%Class Participation (including oral presentations and pop quizzes): 25%
Class Schedule
Week 1-2: Concepts: Representing Self; Representing Others: What’s Power Got to Do With It?
James, Daniel: Doña Maria: Chapter 1.Cohen, David: The Combing of History, University of Chicago Press, 1994. Chapter 1.Hobsbawm, Eric. ed. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press, 1992,
Chapter 1/ Introduction. (Vista)Trioullot, Michel-Rolph: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.
Beacon Press, 1997., Preface and Chapter 1
Week 3-4 Where is Latin America? Who is Latin American?
Reading: John L. Phelan, “Pan-Latinism, French Intervention in Mexico (1861-1867) and the Genesis of the Idea of Latin America,” in Conciencia y autenticidad históricas, ed. JuanOrtega y Medina. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1968, pp. 279-98.
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Aims McGuinness, “Searching for ‘Latin America’: Race and Sovereignty in the Americas inthe 1850s,” in Nancy Applebaum, ed., Race and Nation in Modern Latin America.University of North Carolina Press, 2003. pp. 87-107.
Weeks 5 and 6: Creating an Atlantic WorldReading: Trioullot, Silencing the Past, chapters 2-5
“Capitulations to Columbus” (BV)Diary, Christopher Columbus, Exerpt, English and/or Spanish
Weeks 7 and 8: Inventing National HistoriesReading: Guttierez et al. Fronteras: Paisagens, Personagens e Identidades. São Paulo:
UNESP, 2003. (Frontiers: Landscapes, People and Identies)
Weeks 9 and 10: Oral History and the Working ClassReading: Daniel James, Doña Maria: História de vida, memoria e identidade política,
Buenos Aires, Maniantal, 2004.
Weeks 11 and 12: Film and History Reading: Donald Stevens. Based on a True Story: Latin America at the Movies.
SR Books, 2005
Week 13: Presentation of Research Papers
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Regional e Meio Ambiente-MDR&MA
Doutorado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente – DD&MA
Aos Responsáveis pela Destinação de Bolsa Fullbright. Prezados, Como coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, confirmo nosso interesse em receber a Professora Mary Ann Mahony, Ph.D. como bolsista da Fulbright. Esperamos que ela ofereça disciplinas para os discentes do programa (mestrando e doutorando), assim como para graduandos na licenciatura em história e em geografia da UESC. O assunto será história do meio ambiente nas Américas, com ênfases nos trópicos, nosso principal foco. A candidata também desenvolverá outras atividades como workshops ou palestras de interesse a nossos alunos e professores com interesse na área de meio ambiente e desenvolvimento regional. Ela é capaz de lecionar em português. Esperamos uma interessante parceria de trabalho durante sua estada. A Professora Mahony recebeu o doutorado em História de Yale University em 1996 e leciona história da América Latina e Estudos Internacionais na Central Connecticut State University. A pesquisa e as publicações da mesma abrirão novos caminhos para entender a história da zona cacaueira e um melhor entendimento desta história ajudaria -nos no proposta de formar profissionais que trabalham para recuperar a região do desastre econômico e ambiental criado pela vassoura de bruxa e o colapso do sector agrícola de cacau. Ler e questionar a historiografia regional e a história do meio ambiente com uma professora que tenha a expertise da Professora Mahony criaria uma experiência exemplar para nossos alunos. Ela também se ofereceu para participar na orientação de nossos alunos na preparação de projetos, assim como teses de mestrado e doutorado. Seria a primeira vez que nossos alunos teriam a oportunidade de entrar nos debates sobre história ambiental no contexto da história do desenvolvimento regional. No final esperamos desenvolver um melhor entendimento entre historiadores da região e os cientistas ambientais que trabalham em desenvolvimento e meio ambiente, para melhorar a condição de vida das populações do sul da Bahia. No processo esperamos servir como modelo para outras propostas semelhantes. Para confirmar nosso interesse em receber a professora, confirmamos que ela terá um espaço para trabalhar no programa de desenvolvimento regional e meio ambiente, acesso a e-mail, biblioteca e assistência em encontrar um lugar para morar, aliás, pelo menos duas colegas já se ofereceram a ajudar a professora em encontrar hospedagem. Gostaria de enfatizar mais uma vez que estamos muito felizes em convidar a Professora Mahony para passar um semestre na UESC como bolsista da Fulbright. Atenciosamente,
Alexadre Schiavetti, Dr
Pesquisador 2 CNPq Coordenador PPG em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
DCAA – UESC
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Regional e Meio Ambiente-MDR&MA
Doutorado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente – DD&MA
To the coordinators of the Fulbright Fellowship Program: Distinguished sirs: As the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Development and Environment at the State University of Santa Cruz, I confirm our interest in receiving Professor Mary Ann Mahony, PH.D., as a Fulbright Scholar. We hope that she will teach courses for our graduate students (masters’ and doctoral level), as well as for undergraduates in the Licenciatura programs in the departments of History and Geography. The topic will be the environmental History of the Americas, with na emphasis on the tropics, our principal emphasis. She will also develop other activities such as workshops or lectures or interest to our students and faculty interested in environment and regional Development. She is able to teach in Portuguese. We anticipate na interesting partnership to develop during her tenure.
Professor Mahony received her doctorate in History from Yale University in 1996 and now teaches Latin American History and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Her Research and publications open new avenues for us to understand the History of the cacao region and a better understanding of our History will help us to educate professionals who will work to help the region recover from the economic and environmental disaster created by the Witch’s Broom and the collapse of the cacao-based agricultural sector. Reading and questioning regional History and environmental History with a Professor who has her expertise will be an excellent experience for our students. She has also offered to assist with preparing proposals, or in developing their masters’ or doctoral theses. This will be the first time that our students will have the opportunity to engage in debates about environmental history in the context of the history of regional development. Finally, we hope to develop a better understanding between historians in the region and the environmental scientists who work on development and environment to improve the living conditions of the residents of southern Bahia. In the process, we hope to serve as a model for other similar projects.
To confirm our interest in receiving the professor, I can confirm that she will have a space in which to work in the development and environment program, access to e-mail, access to the library, and assistance in finding a place to live. Indeed, at least two colleagues have already offered to help her find lodging. I would like to emphasize once again that we are very happy to invite Professor Mahony to spend a semester at UESC as a Fulbright Scholar. Sincerely,
Alexadre Schiavetti, Dr
Category 2 Researcher, CNPq (Brazilian Science Foundation) Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Development and Environment
DCAA - UESC
