Dr Nancy Naro

BS (Simmons College), MS and PhD (University of Chicago)

Lecturer in Brazilian History

Tel 020 7848 2032, Email Nancy.Naro@kcl.ac.uk

Research and teaching interests

Brazilian and Latin American History; Brazilian and Latin American social movements; slave and post-slave societies of Brazil and the Americas.

Principal Publications

• The Formation of the United States (S Paulo: UNICAMP/ Atual, 1985)
• Policia na Corte e no Distrito Federal: 1831-1930 [co-authored] (Rio de Janeiro: Serie de estudos, PUC/RJ, 1981)
• Various entries in The Encyclopedia of Latin American History
• "Fact, Fantasy, or Folklore? A Novel Case of Retribution in Nineteenth Century Brazil", Luso Brazilian Review 33:1 (1996)
• "From Slavery to Migrant Labour in Rural Brazil", Slavery and Abolition, Papers from the Seminar on Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World. Special Edition, August 1994
• "Revision and Persistence: Recent Historiography on the Transition from Slave to Free Labour in Rural Brazil", Slavery and Abolition. A Journal of Comparative Studies 13 (1992), 67-85
• "A Transição da Mão-de-Obra Escrava para a Livre: Historiografia Recente e Comparação de Dois Casos Ilustrativos: Rio Bonito e Vassouras (1870-1890)", Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 22 (1992), 33-47
• "Customary Rightholders and Legal Claimants to Land in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1850-1890", The Americas XLVIII (4) (1992), 485-517 (corrections in October issue)