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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 is the author of Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke 1993) and the forthcoming Autos and Progress: Brazil's Search for Modernity (Oxford). He has published articles on modern Brazil in the Latin American Research Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Radical History Review, and Revista Brasileira de História. In addition to modern Brazil, Prof. Wolfe's research and teaching interests include the history of technology and Inter-American relations. He is at present conducting research on two projects. One is a study of the atomic age in Latin America, the other is a history of the development of the Brazilian space program.
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