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Email: dborges@uchicago.edu
CV: http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/CVs/BorgesCV.pdf

Field Specialties
Modern Latin America, especially Brazil and the Caribbean; Intellectual History; History of the Family.

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.

Publications

Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890-1922, in Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert Joseph, and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Crime and Punishment in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Esau and Jacob, by Machado de Assis, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 (editor).

A Mirror of Progress, in Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti, eds., The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Intellectuals and the Forgetting of Slavery in Brazil, Annals of Scholarship 11 (1996).

The Recognition of Afro-Brazilian Symbols and Ideas, 1890-1940, Luso-Brazilian Review 32 (1995).

Puffy, Ugly, Slothful, and Inert: Degeneration in Brazilian Social Thought, 1880-1940, Journal of Latin American Studies 25 (1993).

The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1992.

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Dain Borges

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Stanford University 1986