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Jerry Dávila
Undergraduate Coordinator and Assistant Professor
Garinger 132
704.687.4396
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Education: Ph.D. Brown University, 1998.

Research Interests: Brazil, Race Relations, Latin America.

Recent Publications:

  • Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
  • "Ethnicity, Identity and Nationhood in Latin America," Jewish History, 18 (2004).
  • "Os Usos e Abusos do Getúlio Vargas no Brasil," in leituras em História ed. Claudio DeNipottli and André Joanilho.  Curitiba: Editoria Aoss Quatro Ventos, 2003.
  • "Norma Fraga: Growing Up Black in the Estado Novo," in The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, ed. Peter M. Beattie.  Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003.
  • "Under the Long Shadow of Getúlio Vargas: A Research Chronicle," Estudios Interdisciplinários de América Latina y el Caribe, 12:1 (2001): 25-38.
  • "Expanding Perspectives on Race in Brazil," Latin American Research Review, 35:3 (2000): 188-198.

Current Projects:

Jerry Dávila's research interests concern the roles played by race relations and racial values in the shaping of public policy.  He is currently conducting research on Brazilian foreign policy with regard to decolonization in Africa.

 Courses Taught:  
Current semester: (Fall 2004) Next semester:  (Spring 2005)
  • HIST 3797, Honors Methods and Practice
Previous semesters:  
  • HIST 2206, Colonial Latin America
  • HIST 2207, Modern Latin America
  • HIST 3177, The Cuban Revolution
  • HIST 3179, Authoritarianism in Latin America
  • HIST 4002, Race & Slavery in Latin America
  • HIST 6000, Populism in Latin America