Barbara Weinstein

Professor
Ph.D. Yale, 1980
Modern Latin American History, Brazil
phone: 301-405-4318
bswein99@aol.com

Professor Weinstein has published two monographs on Brazilian social, economic, and political history: The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 and For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964. She has published several essays on gender in Latin America, as well as numerous articles on industrial workers, slavery, and regionalism. Her current book project is tentatively titled "Race, Region, Nation: São Paulo and the Formation of Brazilian National Identities." She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has served on the editorial board of several journals, including ILWCH, the Radical History Review, the Latin American Research Review, and The Americas, and is co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. She has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Campinas (São Paulo) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently president-elect of the American Historical Association.