HENDRIK KRAAY

Employment:

Associate Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2002–present.

Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 1997–June 2002.

Education:

PhD, History, University of Texas at Austin, August 1995; Dissertation: “Soldiers, Officers, and Society: The Army in Bahia, Brazil, 1808–1889.”

MA, History, University of Toronto, November 1989.

BA, International Relations and History, Trinity College, University of Toronto, June 1988.

Publications:

Books:

(Edited) Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007).

(Edited with Celso Castro and Vitor Izecksohn) Nova História Militar Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Editora Bom Texto, 2004).

(Edited with Thomas L. Whigham) I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s–1840s (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001); Translated as Política Racial, Estado e Forças Armadas na época da Independência: Bahia, 1790–1850 (São Paulo: Editora HUCITEC, forthcoming).

(Edited) Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

(with João José Reis) "'The Tyrant Is Dead': The Revolt of the Periquitos, Bahia, 1824," Hispanic American Historical Review, forthcoming.

“Nação, Estado e política popular no Rio de Janeiro: Festas cívicas depois da Independência,” in Nacionalismo nas Américas, ed. Marco Antônio Pamplona and Don Doyle (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2008), 329-54.

“Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America,” in Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America, ed. Hendrik Kraay (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007), 1–24.

“‘Let Us Be Brazilians on the Day of Our Nationality’: Independence Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s–1860s,” in Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America, ed. Hendrik Kraay (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007), 27–48; Translated as: “‘Sejamos brasileiros no dia da nossa nacionalidade’: Comemorações da Independência no Rio de Janeiro, 1840–1864,” Topoi (Rio de Janeiro) 14 (January-June 2007): 9–36.

“Muralhas da Independência e liberdade do Brasil: A participação popular nas lutas políticas (Bahia, 1820–1825),” in A Independência brasileira: Novas dimensões, ed. Jurandir Malerba (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2006), 303–41.

“Arming Slaves in Brazil from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries,” in Philip Morgan and Christopher Brown, eds., The Arming of Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 146–79.

“A visão estrangeira: A independência do Brasil (1780–1850) na historiografia européia e norte-americana,” in Independência: História e historiografia, ed. István Jancsó (São Paulo: Editora HUCITEC, 2005), 119–77.

“O cotidiano dos soldados na guarnição da Bahia, 1850–1889,” in Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, and Hendrik Kraay, eds., Nova História Militar Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Editora Bom Texto, 2004), 237–68.

(With Celso Castro and Vitor Izecksohn), “Introdução: Da História Militar à ‘Nova’ História Militar,” in Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, and Hendrik Kraay, eds., Nova História Militar Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Editora Bom Texto, 2004), 11–42.

“Patriotic Mobilization in Brazil: The Zuavos and Other Black Companies,” in Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L. Whigham, eds., I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 61–80.

(With Thomas L. Whigham), “War, Politics, and Society in South America, 1820s–1860,” in Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L. Whigham, eds., I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 1–22.

“Daniel Gomes de Freitas,” in Peter M. Beattie, ed., The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2004), 5–22; Translated as: “Daniel Gomes de Freitas: Um oficial rebelde do Exército imperial brasileiro,” Politéia (Vitória da Conquista, Brazil) 4:1 (2004): 135–58.

“‘Frio como a pedra de que se há de compor’: Caboclos e monumentos na comemoração da independência na Bahia, 1870–1900,” Tempo (Niteroi, Brazil) 7:14 (January–June 2003): 51–81; English version: "'Cold as the Stone of Which It Must Be Made': Caboclos, Monuments and the Memory of Independence in Bahia, Brazil, 1870s–1900," in Jens Anderman and William Rowe, eds., Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America (London: Berghahn Books, 2005), 165–94.

“‘Em outra coisa não falavam os pardos, cabras e crioulos’: O ‘recrutamento’ de escravos na guerra da independência no Brasil, 1822–1823,” Revista Brasileira de História 22:43 (2002): 109–26.

“Estado e sociedade numa cidade brasileira: A Guarda Nacional em Salvador, 1831–1850,” Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Histórica 21 (2001): 73–88.

“Definindo a nação e o Estado: rituais cívicos na Bahia pós-Independência (1823–1850),” Topoi (Rio de Janeiro) 3 (September 2001): 63–90.

“A política racial nas forças armadas, 1823–1838,” Anais do IV Congresso de História da Bahia (Salvador 450 anos), 2 vols. (Salvador: Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia and Fundação Gregório de Matos, 2001), 2:713–23.

“Urban Slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: The Wills of Captain Joaquim Félix de Santana, Colonel Manoel Pereira da Silva, and Rosa Maria ds Conceição (1809, 1814, 1843),” in Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, eds., Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History (1550–1850) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 279–93.

“Between Brazil and Bahia: Celebrating Dois de Julho in Nineteenth-Century Salvador,” Journal of Latin American Studies 32:2 (May 1999): 255–86;Translated as “Entre o Brasil e a Bahia: As comemorações do Dois de Julho em Salvador, século XIX,” Afro-Asia (Salvador, Brazil) 23 (2000): 49–87.

“Reconsidering Recruitment in Imperial Brazil,” The Americas 55:1 (July 1998): 1–33;Translated as “Repensando o recrutamento militar no Brasil imperial,” Diálogos (Maringá, Brazil) 3:3 (1999): 113–51.

“Introduction: Afro-Bahia, 1790s–1990s,” in Hendrik Kraay, ed., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 1–29.

“The Politics of Race in Independence-Era Bahia: The Black Militia Officers of Salvador, 1790–1840,” in Hendrik Kraay, ed., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics:

Bahia, 1790s–1990s (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 30–56;Revised version translated as “Identidade racial na política, Bahia, 1790–1840: O caso dos Henriques,” Brasil: Formação do Estado e da nação, ed. István Jancsó (São Paulo: HUCITEC; Ed. UNIJUÍ, FAPESP, 2003), 521–46.

“Slavery, Citizenship and Military Service in Brazil’s Mobilization for the Paraguayan War,” Slavery and Abolition 18:3 (December 1997): 228–56;Translated as “Escravidão, cidadania e recrutamento militar na Guerra do Paraguai,” Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Rio de Janeiro) 33 (September 1998): 117–51.

“‘The Shelter of the Uniform’: The Brazilian Army and Runaway Slaves, 1800–1888,” Journal of Social History 29:3 (Spring 1996): 637–57;Translated as “‘O abrigo da farda’: O exército brasileiro e os escravos fugidos, 1800–1888,” Afro-Asia (Salvador, Brazil) 17 (1996): 29–56.

“‘As Terrifying as Unexpected’: The Bahian Sabinada, 1837–1838,” Hispanic American Historical Review 72:4 (November 1992): 501–27.

Encyclopedia Entries and Review Essays:

“Transatlantic Ties: Recent Works on the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Abolition,” Latin American Research Review 39:2 (2004): 178–95.

“Jovita Alves Feitosa” and “Maria Quitéria de Jesus,” entries in Reina Pennington, ed., Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, 2 vols. (Westport: Greenwood, 2003), 1:169–70, 349–50.

“Documenting Carolina: Favela: Life of Poverty,” Luso-Brazilian Review 36:1 (Summer 1999): 163–64.

“A história do Brasil no Canadá,” Registro (Mariana, Brazil) 5:9 (March-August 1998): 11.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles:

“Massacre em Salvador,” Revista de História da Biblioteca Nacional 29 (February 2008): 58–61.

“Independência baiana,” Nossa História 21 (July 2005): 60–63.

“Um dia que entrou para a História,” Nossa História 11 (September 2004): 20–23.

“O panorama visto do lado de cima do equador,” Valor Econômico (São Paulo): 16 February 2001.

Translations (from Portuguese):

Maria Cecília Velasco e Cruz, “Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Rio de Janeiro’s Port: The Coffee and Warehouse Workers Resistance Society, 1905–1909,” in Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America, ed. Hendrik Kraay (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007), 165–85.

Renato Lemos, “Benjamin Constant: The ‘Truth’ behind the Paraguayan War,” in Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L. Whigham, eds., I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864–1870 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 81–104.

Jocélio Teles dos Santos, “A Mixed-Race Nation: Afro-Brazilians and Cultural Policy in Bahia, 1970–1990,” in Hendrik Kraay, ed., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 117–33.

Michel Agier, “Between Affliction and Politics: A Case Study of Bahian Candomblé,” in Hendrik Kraay, ed., Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 134–57.

Work In Progress: Writing Projects

“Celebrating Independence and the State in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, 1822–1900,” Book Manuscript.

“‘Tão assustadora quanto inesperada’: A Sabinada baiana, 1837–1838," Chapter for Book on Revolts in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, edited by Mônica Dantas, To Be Published by Editora Alameda.

Research Projects

“From Entrudo to Carnaval: Transforming Pre-Lenten Celebrations in Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” Research Project.

Fellowships and Research Grants:

Latin American Research Centre Resident Fellowship, January–June 2008 (one course release).

Killam Resident Fellowship, University of Calgary, January–June 2006 (one semester of service and course release time).

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Ministério de Educação (Brazil), Professor Visitante Estrangeiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, July–December 2004.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, 1999–2002, for “Defining the Brazilian Nation: Civic Rituals in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1995–1997.

Recent Book Reviews: Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Historian, American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, History: Review of New Books, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, Luso-Brazilian Review, História Social, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Business History Review

Recent Invited Lectures and Seminars:

"Sete de Setembro: Festas oficiais e festejos populares na Corte imperial, 1823-1889," Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 22 October 2008; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre), 13 October 2008; Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (Ilhéus), 17 October 2008.

“Days of National Festivity in the Brazilian Empire, 1850–1864," Oliveira Lima Library, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., Occasional Colloquium in Luso-Brazilian History, 27 February 2007.

“The Politics of Ritual and the Rituals of Politics: Civic Rituals and Days of National Festivity in Imperial Brazil,” Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2 May 2006.

“Slaves with Guns: Public and Private Arming of Slaves in Brazil, 1600s–1800s,” Department of History, University of Georgia, 4 March 2005.

“Uma passagem pelo sexto andar do Palácio Duque de Caxias: Perspectivas sobre a História Militar do Brasil,” Laboratório de Estudos sobre os Militares na Política, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 30 November 2004.

“Os companheiros de D. Obá: Os Zuavos baianos na Guerra do Paraguai," Departamento de História, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 1 December 2004.

“Sete de Setembro: Um dia de festividade nacional na capital do império,” Departmento de História, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerias, Belo Horizonte, 5 November 2004.

“‘Três noites de iluminaçào, salvas, girândolas e foguetes a mais não poder’: As comemorações do Sete de Setembro na capital do império," Departamento de História,

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 5 October 2004.

Recent Conference Presentations:

“The ‘Barbarous Game’: Entrudo in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” IX Brazilian Studies Association International Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, 27–29 March 2008.

“The Empire on Stage: Theater Galas on Days of National Festivity in Imperial Rio de Janeiro,” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, 5 January 2008.

“‘Let Us Be Brazilians on the Day of Our Nationality’: Civic Rituals in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro,” Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Calgary, 30 September 2006.

“Dias de festejo nacional no Império, 1850–1865,” II Simpósio Internacional de História do Brasil, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, 20 June 2006.

“O ritual político a política dos rituais: Festas cívicas no Rio de Janeiro, 1823–1831,” XI Encontro Regional de História, Associação Nacional de Professores Universitários da História, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20 October 2004.

“Slaves with Guns: Public and Private Arming of Slaves in Brazil," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference, Santa Fe, 12 March 2004.

“Sete de Setembro: Changing Meanings of Independence Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro,” Conference on Latin American History, Concurrent with American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, 9 January 2004.

Prizes and Awards:

Cavaleiro da Ordem de Rio Branco (Knight, Order of Rio Branco), 2004, President of the Republic of Brazil, for Services Rendered to Brazil in the Field of Historical Research.

Honorable Mention, Warren Dean Prize, 2004, Conference on Latin American History, for Best Work on the History of Brazil Published in 2001 and 2002, for Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s–1840s.

Lathrop Prize, 1996, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, for Best Dissertation in 1995–1996.

James A. Robertson Memorial Prize, 1994, Conference on Latin American History, for Best Article in the 1992 Hispanic American Historical Review, “‘As Terrifying as Unexpected’: The Bahian Sabinada, 1837–1838.”

Professional Service:

American Historical Association:

C.H. Haring Book Prize Committee: Member, 2006.

Conference on Latin American History

General Committee: Member, Elected for 2007–2008 Term.

Nominating Committee: Member, 2004.

Brazilian Studies Committee: Chair, Elected for 2000–2002 Term; Secretary, Elected for 1998–2000 Term.

Editorial Board Memberships:

The Americas, 2005–2010.

Luso-Brazilian Review, 2000–.

H-LATAM, H-Net, 2001–2002.

Recent Article Manuscript Reviews for Journals: Journal of Latin American Studies, Almanque Brasiliense, Radical History Review, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Revista Brasileira de História, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro), Anthropologica, Luso-Brazilian Review, Canadian Journal of History, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, Almanaque Brasiliense.

Recent Book Manuscript Reviews for Presses: Oxford University Press; Rowman and Littlefield; Duke University Press; University of South Carolina Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; University of Nebraska Press; Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.

Conference Organizer:

Chair, Organizing Committee, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference, University of Calgary, 28–30 September 2006 (supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Grant to Occasional Workshops and Conferences).

Chair, Organizing Committee, “Negotiating Identities in Latin American Cultures,” Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary, 30–31 January 2004.

Chair, Organizing Committee, “State and Society in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Conference,” University of Calgary, 31 January 2003.

Recent Panels Organized for: American Historical Association (2008), Conference on Latin American History (2004), Latin American Studies Association (2003), Society for Military History (2001), Brazilian Studies Association (2000).

Language Skills: English,Portuguese,Dutch (Mother Tongue),French (Reading),Spanish (Reading)

Professional Organization Memberships: American Historical Association, Brazilian Studies Association, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Canadian Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History, Latin American Studies Association.

Updated October 2008