Judy Bieber

Associate Professor • Latin America, Brazil, African Diaspora, Race and Ethnicity in America

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Contact

2084 Mesa Vista Hall

505-277-3765

Profile

Professor Bieber received an appointment at the University of New Mexico in 1994 following the completion of her doctoral degree. She offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of Latin America and the Atlantic World. These include the colonial and modern Latin American surveys, a two-semester series on Brazil, Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas, and specializes seminars on race, ethnicity, and political history in Latin America. She has also taught the undergraduate historiography course and is developing a new course on the history of chocolate, coffee, and sugar. Bieber has published a monograph and several articles on the themes of nineteenth-century Brazilian politics, frontiers, and race relations. She has also published historiographical essays on Brazilian history in the U.S. and in Brazil. Her current research examines policy towards indigenous peoples in nineteenth-century Brazil.

Education

B.A., Rutgers College, 1987
Ph.D. in History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1994

Research

Politics and State Building, slavery, African Diaspora, race and ethnicity, and frontiers

Selected Publications

IPlantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion, 1450-1800 (Hampshire: Variorum Press, 1997)

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999)

Brazilian History (Albuquerque: Latin American and Iberian Institute (UNM), 2001)

Awards

2002 Honorable Mention for the Warren Dean Prize for Power, Patronage, and Political Violence

2000: NEH Summer Stipend


Courses

Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Comparative Salvery, Society and Development in Latin America, Brazil 1500-present , Modern Brazil, Women and Family in Latin America, Brazilian History