Joel Wolfe

Professor Joel Wolfe has published three books on modern Brazil. Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955 (Duke University Press, 1993), which was named a Choice Outstanding Book for 1995; Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2010); and, Brazil (Polity, 2023) for the Polity Histories series.

At present, he is writing a book entitled, The American Game: Gridiron Football and the Making of a Modern Nation, which traces the long history of American football from the mid-nineteenth century to the present on the high school, college, and professional levels. He is also continuing work on a long-term project on trade, culture, and politics in the Western Hemisphere in the 1920s.