Daryle Williams
Associate Professor of History (appointed August 1995; promoted August 2001)
Department of History
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315
Office: (301) 405-0061
Main Office: (301) 405-4265
FAX: (301) 314-9399
daryle@umd.edu
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/DWilliams
Primary Fields:
Brazil post-1808; Modern Latin American Cultural History
Secondary Fields: Colonial Latin America; Atlantic Slavery and Emancipation
Languages: English; Portuguese; Spanish
Education:
PhD, Latin American History, Stanford University, June 1995
MA, Latin American History, Stanford University, September 1991
AB with high honors, History and Latin American Studies, Princeton University,
June 1989
Current Projects:
BOOK: "The Intrepid Mariner Simão: A Portrait of the Atlantic World at the End of the Slave Trade"
ARTICLE: "A Study of the Christie Affair: The Anglo-Brazilian Question, 1861-1865"
Recent Grants and Fellowships:
Graduate Research Board Semester Fellowship
Fall 2004
Resident Fellow
Maryland Institute for Technology and the
Humanities
2001-2002
Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship
in the Humanities
Programa de Investigaciones Socioculturales en el Mercosur
Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Buenos Aires, Argentina
May-August 2001
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
for Minorities
Department of History, University of California, San Diego
January-December 1998
Fulbright Scholar Program
Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação
em História Social
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
August-December 1997
Recent Publications:
"Além da historia pátria?: As missões jesuítico-guaraní, o Patrimônio da Humanidade, e outras historias," Revista do Patrimônio 34 (forthcoming).
"Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro" in Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. Jens R. Hentschke, ed. New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
"Stefan Zweig, The Accidental Brazilianist," Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit (1/2005): 151-155.
(with Barbara Weinstein), "Vargas Morto: The Death and Life of a Brazilian Statesman," in Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Politics of the Body in Latin America. Lyman Johnson, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
"Vicente Racioppi: The Local Preservationist and the National State" in The Human Tradition in Brazil. Peter M. Beattie, ed. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003, 183-205.
Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945. Duke University Press, 2001. [Winner of the 2002 John Edwin Fagg Prize for the best book in Latin American or Iberian history, awarded by the American Historical Association]"Gustavo Capanema, Ministro de Cultura," in Capanema: o ministro e seu ministério. Angela Maria Castro Gomes, ed. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas Editora; Bragança Paulista: Universidade São Francisco, 2000.
Recent Conferences and Papers:
"A Paradox of People and Things in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Society," Vanderbilt History Seminar, Vanderbilt University, October 2009
"Cape Verde and the 'Margins' of the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Slave System," Seminário Internacional: O Século XIX e as Novas Fronteiras da Escravidão e da Liberdade, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Severino Sombra, August 2009
"The Portrait(s) of the Intrepid Mariner Simão: Visual Histories of Blackness in the Luso-Atlantic at the End of the Slave Trade," Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2008
"'The Peculiar Circumstances of this Land': Blackness and Live Models in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Fine Arts," 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 4, 2008
"Vida e obra do Simão Salvador, o Intrépido Marinheiro do Vapor Pernambucana," Festas do Municipio da Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão, Cape Verde, January 2008
Princeton University Latin American Ephemera Symposium, Princeton University, March 2, 2007
"O belo da negritude: As artes acadêmicas no Brasil escravocrata," Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil), May 2005; and International Symposium on Brazilian History: Brasil-EUA: Novas Gerações; Novos Diálogos , Fundação Casa Rui Barbosa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), June 2005
"The Blackness of Beauty: Brazilian Fine Arts Under Slavery and Emancipation, 1816-1914," Department of History, Northern Illinois University and Department of History (Sahin Lecture Series), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2005
(with John Collins) "The Politics of World Heritage in Latin America," Bildner Center, City University of New York, May 2004
"Vargas Morto: The Death and Life of a Brazilian Statesman," European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 2004
"The Cultural Politics of Brazilian Nationhood, 1930-1964," Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna, Austria, March 2004
"'The Identity Documents of the Brazilian Nation': Local Monuments, National Patrimony, and World Heritage," Vassar College, February 2004
"A Era Vargas: Obsessão e Paixão dos Brasilianistas" Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, June 2003
Other Activities:
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2005-2009
Program Committee, 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, 2008
Associate Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, 2002-2007
Associate Director, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, 2002-2004
Director, Committee on Africa and the Americas, University of Maryland, 2001-2002
Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers, The Crossroads of Atlantic Cultures: Brazil at 500, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1998
Assistant Editor, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Interamerican Cultural History, 1999-2002