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Associate Professor
Office: Herter 708
Telephone: (413) 545-6766
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: jwolfe@history.umass.edu
Degree: PhD University of Wisconsin -- Madison (1990)
Field(s) of interest: Modern Latin America, Brazil
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Wolfe studies the impact of modernity, industrialism, and trade on Latin American societies and their politics. His primary focus is modern Brazil. He is the author most recently of Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford 2010). He also published Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke 1993). His articles have appeared in the Latin American Research Review, Hispanic American Historical, Radical History Review, Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Revista Brasileira de História. He is at present working on a book tentatively entitled, "100 Years of Trade in Latin America."
Professor Wolfe regularly gives classes on Modern Latin American, Brazil, Technology & Modernity, and Inter-American Relations.
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