James N. Green
Professor of History and Brazilian Studies:
History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 1394
James_Green@brown.edu
James N. Green works on the political, social and, and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil. His books include: "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85 (Duke, 2009) and Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Gender, Sexuality, and Revolutionary Masculinity during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship."
Biography
James N. Green received his doctorate in Latin American history at UCLA in 1996. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived eight years in Brazi. He served as the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University from 2005 to 2008. He is a past president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is currently the President of the New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS).
Interests
"'We Cannot Remain Silent': Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85." Duke University Press, 2009.
This political history of relations between the United States and Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s analyzes the various campaigns organized by clergy, exiles, and academics against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Linking activities in the United States to the political and social history of Brazil over two decades, this study argues that the different efforts to denounce human rights violations in Brazil prepared the groundwork for broader movements against authoritarian regimes in Central and South America in the 1970s and 1980s.
New Research Projects:
"Gender, Sexuality, and Revolutionary Masculinity during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship."
This project examines the interplay of shifts in gender and sexual norms in Brazil, as influenced by Brazilian and international cultural movements, and the student and revolutionary movements against the military dictatorship that ruled the country for two decades. Based on archival records, memoirs, and interviews with former student leaders, underground revolutionaries, and guerrilla leaders, this study analyzes the complexities of competing notions of gender and sexuality as countercultural values clashed with Marxist revolutionary constructions of appropriate masculinity. An article based on part of this research, "'Who is the machão who is going to kill me?': Homosexuality, Revolutionary Masculinity, and the Brazilian Armed Struggle of the 1960s and 70s" will appear in Hispanic American Historical Review in 2009.
"The Crossroads of Sin and the Collision of Cultures: Pleasure and Popular Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1920."
This project is a social, cultural, and urban history of downtown Rio de Janeiro. My work examines the multiple layers of public sociability and everyday interactions that occurred in the city's public spaces before, during, and after the Brazilian belle époque in order to analyze how different social classes occupied and use similar public spaces and how race and gender influenced social interactions. This study should reveal larger patterns of urban sociability and, in turn, shed new light on our overall understanding of urban life in Brazil and Latin America. I have received competitive fellowships to work on this project from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment of the Humanities. As an outgrowth of this research, I have also developed a collaborative project with Stanford University and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in Campinas, Brazil entitled "The Terrain of History: The Social and Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro." This initiative combines past efforts and enables future collaboration among three urban history/geography research groups. All three projects focus on detailed reconstructions of urban spaces and histories in Rio de Janeiro during the nineteenth century. Through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) we have developed a combined mapping database and harmonized a common geospatial rubric in order to produce the most detailed and complete geohistorical archive ever assembled for a city in South America. (See: http://shc.stanford.edu/digital/rio.htm).
Degrees
Ph.D., Latin American History
Awards
2008 Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising, Brown University
2008 Jon M. Tolman Prize for Best Conference Paper, Brazilian Studies Association, "'Restless Youth': The 1968 Brazilian Student Movement as seen from Washington."
2006 Cidadania em Respeito à Diversidade [Citizenship Respecting Diversity] Book Award for Homossexualismo em São Paulo e outros (São Paulo: Editora da UNESP, 2005) São Paulo, Brazil.
2001 Cidadania em Respeito à Diversidade [Citizenship Respecting Diversity] Book Award for Além do carnaval: a homossexualidade masculina no Brasil do século XX (Editora da UNESP, 2000) São Paulo, Brazil.
2001 Martin Duberman Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Program, City University of New York for book proposal: "More Love and More Desire": A History of the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Movement."
2000 Lambda Literary Foundation/Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Trust Award for Emergent Scholars for Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
1999 Hubert Herring Book Award of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.
1998 Sprague Prize, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association, for outstanding doctoral dissertation chapter.
1996 Ken Dawson Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, for outstanding research in gay and lesbian history.
1996 UCLA Lambda Alumni Award for outstanding research in gay and lesbian history.
Affiliations
American Historical Association (AHA)
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Past President
Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association
Consortium on Brazilian Studies (COBRAS), National Co-Coordinator
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS), President
Teaching
Colonial Latin America
Comparative Labor History: U.S. and Latin America
Gay and Lesbian History
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Gender, Race and Culture in Latin American Historiography
History of Argentina
History of Brazil
History of Brazil through Film and Literature
History of Latin American Historiography
History of Mexico
History of Rio de Janeiro
History of Sexuality in the Western World Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
Latin American Nations [Nineteenth and Twentieth Century]
Latin American Revolutions in the Twentieth Century
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Early Latin America
Politics and Culture during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Recent Historiography on Brazilian Social and Cultural History
Recent Latin American Historiography
Slavery and Race in Latin America
Theories and Methodologies of History
Tropical Delights: Imagining Brazil in History and Culture
Women and Gender in Latin America
Funded Research
2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (NEH) for the research project, "The Crossroads of Sin and the Collision of Cultures: Pleasure and Popular Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1920."
2002-2003 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship to write manuscript for the book project, "'No Time for Tears: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85." (Under contract with Duke University Press).
2001-2002 Martin Duberman Fellowship, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Program, City University of New York for book proposal: "More Love and More Desire": A History of the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Movement."
2000 Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher Fellowship, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Graduate Program, Department of History.
