Latin American History | List of Courses
Hist 1140: Preceptorial in Latin American C. T.
Hist 1340: Latin American Cultural Traditions
Hist 3340: Latin American Perspectives
Hist 3344: Modern Brazil
Hist 3346: Modern Mexico
Hist 4440: Seminar in Latin American History
Gned 1300: Vespucci's Map
Alida Metcalf | Professor
Alida Metcalf received her B.A. from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of two prize winning books: Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil (Harvey L. Johnson Book Award, Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention, Bolton Prize, Conference of Latin American Historians) and Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil (Roberto Reis Prize, Brazilian Studies Association). In addition, she has received research grants from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Luso-American Foundation. She is currently working on a study of sixteenth century cartographers and their depictions of Africa and America.
Publications
BOOKS
- Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2005.
- Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1882. Second Edition. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2005. First Edition: Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1992.
TEXTBOOKS
- Contributing author, World History: Continuity and Change, Travis Haines, editor. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1997.
- Content Reviewer, World History: People and Nations. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.
SELECTED ARTICLES
- Hans Staden:"The Consummate Go-betweens", in Die warhaftige Historia von 1557, ed. Franz Obermeier and Wolfgang Schiffner. Kiel: Westensee Verlag, forthcoming.
- "Disillusioned Go-betweens: The Politics of Mediation and the Transformation of the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in Sixteenth-Century Brazil". Archivum Historium Societatis Iesu, forthcoming.
- "Adaptation and Resistance: Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil," in The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin. New York: Routledge, 2007.
- "Women as Go-betweens? Patterns in Sixteenth-Century Brazil," in Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas, ed. Nora Jaffary. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
- "The Entradas of Bahia in the Sixteenth Century," The Americas 61 (2005).
- "Jesuits in Brazil: Defining the Vision," in The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture, 1573-1580, 787-814, ed. Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2004.
- "AHA Forum: Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas," American Historical Review, 104 (1999): 1531-1559.
- "Family Customs in Portugal and Brazil: Transatlantic Parallels," Continuity and Change 8:3 (1993): 1-24. Co-authored with Caroline B. Brettell.
- "Searching for the Slave Family in Colonial Brazil: A Reconstruction from São Paulo." Journal of Family History, 16 (1991): 283-298.
- "Women of Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil," Journal of Social History, 24 (1990): 277-292.
- "Fathers and Sons: The Politics of Inheritance in a Colonial Brazilian Township." Hispanic American Historical Review 66 (1986): 455-484.