Hendrik Kraay, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in History University of Texas at Austin / United States, 1995
Areas of Research
History of Brazil
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.
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.
Civic Rituals
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 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).
Popular Festivals
Current research project on transition from entrudo to carnaval in nineteenth-century Brazil. Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant.
Current research project on transition from entrudo to carnaval in nineteenth-century Brazil. Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant.
Military Institutions
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).
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).
Slavery
Interests in armed slaves and military institutions' policy toward slavery.
Interests in armed slaves and military institutions' policy toward slavery.
Race
Editor of Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (1998).
Editor of Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (1998).
Popular Politics
Popular political participation in nineeteenth-century Brazil.
Popular political participation in nineeteenth-century Brazil.
Latin American History
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).
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).
History of Newspapers and Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Co-editor of Press, Power, and Politics in Imperial Brazil (2021)
Co-editor of Press, Power, and Politics in Imperial Brazil (2021)
Supervising degrees
History - Doctoral: Accepting Inquiries
History - Masters: Accepting Inquiries
History - Masters: Accepting Inquiries
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