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Judy Bieber
Judy Bieber

Research Interests: Politics and State Building, Slavery, African Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity, Frontiers and Borderlands, Indigenous Peoples. Research Statement: My research emphasizes the history of Brazil's long nineteenth-century, roughly 1760-1910, focusing mostly on the Brazilian Empire. I am interested in the process of state formation as it occurs among ordinary people and in frontier regions. My first book, Power, Patronage and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier (U. of Nebraska, 1999) examines the relationship of municipal politics and institutionalized corruption in a rural region. I am currently working on a study of frontier consolidation in northeastern Minas Gerais, focusing on the interrelationships of native peoples, soldiers, the landless poor, businessmen and state agents. I have also published on slavery and race relations, one of my primary teaching fields. I seek to embed my scholarship within a broader Atlantic framework, situating borderlands within networks of power and exchange that connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Profile: Professor Bieber received an appointment at the University of New Mexico in 1994 following the completion of her doctoral degree. She offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of Latin America and the Atlantic World. These include the colonial and modern Latin American surveys, a two-semester series on Brazil, Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas, and specializes seminars on race, ethnicity, and political history in Latin America. She has also taught the undergraduate historiography course and is developing a new course on the history of chocolate, coffee, and sugar. Bieber has published a monograph and several articles on the themes of nineteenth-century Brazilian politics, frontiers, and race relations. She has also published historiographical essays on Brazilian history in the U.S. and in Brazil. Her current research examines policy towards indigenous peoples in nineteenth-century Brazil.

  • Power, Patronage, and Political Violence

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4236094-power-patronage-and-political-violence?from_search=true   Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 by Judy Bieber…

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