THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Emeriti (History)
Dain Borges
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and the College
Phone(773) 834-0284
Emaildborges@uchicago.edu
LocationSocial Science Research Building, room 507 Mailbox 35
Area of Study
Caribbean-Atlantic History
Digital
Intellectual
Latin America
Race
Social History
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies Affiliated Faculty, Katz Center for Mexican Studies Executive Committee, Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the College
Dain Borges
Associate Professor Emeritus of History and the CollegeStanford University, PhD '86
Prof. Borges has retired and no longer directs BA theses or accepts new graduate students.
BIOGRAPHY
Dain Borges works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American culture and ideas. His current research project, "Races, Crowds, and Souls in Brazilian Social Thought, 1880–1920," centers on the ways in which Brazilian intellectuals used race sociology and social psychology to understand popular religion and politics. He teaches seminars and courses on Latin American history, comparative nineteenth-century transformations, ideologies of national identity, and culture in the African diaspora.