Hendrik Kraay, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in History University of Texas at Austin / United States, 1995
Areas of Research
Social, cultural, political, and military history of Brazil. Special interests in civic rituals, popular festivals, newspapers, military institutions, slavery, race, popular politics,and identity. Regional research focus on Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.
Current research projects on pre-Lenten celebrations (entrudo to carnival) and Dois de Julho festival in twentieth-century Bahia. Author of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001), Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889 (Stanford University Press, 2013), and Bahia's Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019).
Current research project on transition from entrudo to carnaval in nineteenth-century Brazil.
Author of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (2001). Co-editor of Nova História Militar Brasileira (2004) and I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870 (2004). Co-editor of As milícias de homens de cor do Atlântic Sul, séculos XVII a XIX.
Interests in armed slaves and military institutions' policy toward slavery.
Editor of Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (1998). Current research projects on pardos in late-colonial and early-imperial Brazil.
Popular political participation in nineeteenth-century Brazil.
Comparative social, cultural, political, and military history of Latin America. Special interests in civic rituals, popular festivals, military institutions, slavery, race, popular politics, and identity. Editor of Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America (2007).
Co-editor of Press, Power, and Politics in Imperial Brazil (2021).
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