Fields
Latin America
Afro-Latin America
Comparative Race
Teaching
Colonial and Modern Latin America
Afro-Latin America
Brazil
Race in Latin America
State and Society in Latin America
U.S.-Latin American Relations
- BA, History, Dartmouth College, 1972
- MA, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
- PhD, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978
Education & Training
- Distinguished Service Award, Conference on Latin American History (2025)
- Provost’s Excellence in Mentoring Award (2016)
- Fulbright Visiting Professor, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (2014)
- Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, Harvard University (2012)
- Distinguished Professor (2008)
- Arthur Whitaker Book Prize (2005, 2011)
- Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship (2001)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (1996)
- NEH Fellowship (1995)
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Co-edited and translated with Paulina Laura Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof.
Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Co-edited with Alejandro de la Fuente. Spanish-language edition; Portuguese-language edition.
Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000 (Harvard University Press, 2016).
Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000 (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). Portuguese-language edition.
The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1980). Spanish-language edition.
