 | Ian Olivo Read, PhDFaculty - Full-TimeAssistant Professor of Latin American Studies Phone: 949-480-4217 |
Education
- PhD., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- M.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- B.A., DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Positions Held
- At SUA since 2009
- 2008-2009, Research Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2007-2008, Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
- 2006-2007, Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Puget Sound
- 2005-2006, Graduate lecturer, Stanford University
Research Interests
- Social history of and inequality within Brazilian slavery
- History of health and disease in Brazil
- Social and economic networks in Latin America
- The United Fruit Company
Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures
- The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, 1822-1889. Stanford University Press, forthcoming, December, 2011
- “Off the Block but in the Neighborhood: The Local Slave Trade in São Paulo” Slavery and Abolition, Routelege, forthcoming, Fall 2011.
- "Sickness and Recovery among the Enslaved and Free of Santos County Brazil, 1860-1880," The Americas, The Academy of American Franciscan History, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2008
- "Bankers, Industrialists, and their Cliques: Networks and Institutions in Mexico and Brazil (1890-1910)"
[co-written with Aldo Musacchio], Enterprise and Society, Oxford University Press, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2007 - "Banana Boats and Baby Food: The Banana in US History," in Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank, editors, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 [chapter co-written with Marcelo Bucheli], Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006
- The Hierarchies and Geography of an Imperial Port City in Academic Research on Brazil, San Francisco: Consulate General of Brazil, 2006
- Review of The New Brazil in the Bulletin of Latin American Research, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, fall 2011.
- Review of The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Enterprise and Society, Oxford University Press, Vol.10, No. 3, 2009
- Review of Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas in Enterprise and Society, Oxford University Press, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2005
- Review of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 in Enterprise and Society, Oxford University Press, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2005
Courses Taught at SUA
- Introduction to the Pacific Basin (PACBASIN 100)
- Introduction to Latin American Studies (INTS 130)
- US-Latin American Relations (INTS 210)
- Brazil and Mexico in a Global Context (INTS 303)
- Violence and Oppression in Latin America (INTS 404)
- Plagues and Peoples (INTS 410)
Selected Honors & Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Fellowship, 2008
- Louis Hanke Post-Doctoral Publication award, 2008
- William R. Cline History Fellowship Fund, 2007
- Giles Whiting Fellowship, 2005
- Fulbright-Hays, 2004
- Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, 2003
- Stanford Graduate Research Office, 2002
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