Contributors
- Contributors
Mary C. Karasch is Professor of History, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Her principal book is Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987), translated as A vida dos escravos no Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 by Pedro Maia Soares and published with a new preface (São Paulo: Companhia das letras, 2000). She also served as the associate editor for Brazil for the five volume Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, editor in chief Barbara A. Tenenbaum (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996). Her current research and writing focuses on Central Brazil in the late colonial period. Among her recent publications is “Central Africans in Central Brazil,” in Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, ed. Linda M. Heywood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 117-151.
Hal Langfur is the author of The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming). Currently he is editing a collection of essays by historians and anthropologists on the native peoples of colonial Brazil. His is also at work on a history of Brazilian wilderness expeditions during the eighteenth century. An assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1999.
Alida C. Metcalf is professor of history at Trinity University. She received her B.A. from Smith College in 1976 and her PhD. in 1983 from the University of Texas at Austin. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822, which was awarded the Harvey Johnson Book Award in 1993 by the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention for the Bolton Prize in 1994 by the Conference of Latin American Historians, is her first book. Her second book, Go-Betweens and the Conquest of Brazil, will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2005.
A. J. R. Russell-Wood is the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are in colonial Brazil and comparative colonialism. Recent publications include The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808 (1998), Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450-1800 (1999), Government and Governance of European Empires, 1450-1800 (2000), and Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil (2002). [End Page v]
Barbara A. Sommer, Assistant Professor of History at Gettysburg College (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2000), is currently revising her book manuscript on Amazonian Indians in Directorate Pará and completing a shorter study of kinship and alliance among eighteenth-century slave traders and Arawakan peoples of the Upper Rio Negro. She will be in residence at the John Carter Brown Library this spring. [End Page vi]
