2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
phone: 301-405-4267
fax: 301-314-9399
email: daryle@umd.edu
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Daryle Williams is author of the Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 (Duke University Press, 2001), 2001 winner of the American Historical Association's John Edwin Fagg prize. He has also authored several articles and book chapters on twentieth-century Brazilian cultural history. Recent research has examined the cultural politics of World Heritage in the Southern Cone and humanities computing. His current major project, "The Blackness of Beauty," examines the fine arts and Brazilian slave society.

Williams has held grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. From 2002-2004, Williams served as associate director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora.

Williams serves as the department's Director of Graduate Studies.

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Current Projects:
The Blackness of Beauty: Brazilian Fine Arts Under Slavery and Emancipation, 1816-1912"

"Towards A Cultural Archeology of World Heritage: The Jesuit-Guaraní Missions, 1767-2000"
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