MARTINE JEAN
228 Gambrell Hall, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
[email protected], [email protected]
EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Ph.D. in Latin American History and African-American Studies, December, 2010
Dissertation: Guardians of Order: Police and Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1907-1930
Committee Members: Gilbert M. Joseph, Gerald Jaynes, Stuart B. Schwartz (director)
M.Phil., History and African American Studies, 2005
Examination Fields: Modern Brazil (Stuart B. Schwartz); Modern Caribbean History
(Lillian Guerra); Post Colonial History and Theory (Paul Gilroy).
Brooklyn College, (CUNY), New York
B.A., (summa cum laude) History and Africana Studies, Brooklyn College, (CUNY), 2002
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, History, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2011-2012
Visiting Instructor, History, Connecticut College, Spring 2011
LANGUAGES
Haitian Creole: native speaker
French: advanced fluency, reading, and writing
Spanish: Reading
Portuguese: advanced fluency, reading, and writing
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Social and Political History of Modern Latin America with focus on Haiti and Brazil
Policing Institutions and State Formation
Race, Class, and Public Order
Racial Formation and the Black Diaspora
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
“Hist. 109: Latin American Civilization”
Hist. 420: Latin American: The Founding of New Societies
Fall 2011 – Present
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Visiting Instructor, Connecticut College
Spring 2011
“Sugar, Bodies, Commodities: Latin America and the Atlantic World”
“Modern Latin American History”
Teaching Assistant, Yale University
2004-2008
“Brazil: Five Hundred Years of Tomorrow,” Stuart B. Schwartz
“Race, Spirituality and Revolution in the Caribbean,” Lillian Guerra
“History of Colonial Latin America,”
Stuart B. Schwartz
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Mellon Mays Dissertation Completion Grant, Social Science Research Council, summer 2008
University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2007-2008
Yale Macmillan Center Dissertation Research Grant, Yale University, 2006-2007
Mellon Foundation Latin American Studies Grant, Yale University, 2005-2006
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, summer 2005
John F. Enders Fellowship and Research Grant, Yale University, 2005
Latin American and Iberian Studies Travel Grant, Yale University, Summer 2004
Tinker Field Research Grant, Yale University, summer 2003
Mellon Pre-doctoral Research Development Grant, Social Science Research
Council, summer 2003
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, 2002-2003
Solomon Bloom Award for outstanding student in History Brooklyn College, spring 2002
Leonard and Claire Tow Study Abroad and Research Grant, 2001-2002
Golden Key National Honor Society, 2000
Phi Beta Kappa, 2002
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2000
Gates Millennium Scholarship, 2000
Scholars Program, Honors Academy, Brooklyn College, 1999-2002
RESEARCH
Encyclopedia Contributions
“Mackandal, A St Domingue Maroon Slave,” in King, Stewart (ed.). Encyclopedia of Free Blacks
and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom. Facts on File,
March, 2011
“Gilberto Freyre, a Brazilian Social Scientist,” in King, Stewart (ed.). Encyclopedia of Free
Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom. Facts
on File, March 2011
“Police Structure in Modern Brazil (Administration, Reform, Main Debates),” in John Crocitti
(ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
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“The Brazilian Penal System,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of Life in the
Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Illegal Drugs in Contemporary Brazil,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of
Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Violent Crimes in Brazil, an Analysis,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of
Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Brazilian Criminal Gangs,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of Life in the
Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Sergio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of
Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“José Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of Life in
the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Jaime Lerner: Brazil’s World Famous Urban Planner,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an
Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
“Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira,” in John Crocitti (ed.) Brazil Today: an Encyclopedia of
Life in the Republic. Greenwood Press, 2010
Book Reviews
Micol Seigel, Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), www.h-net.org/reviews, summer 2010
Alejandro de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2008), Canadian
Journal of History, winter 2009 issue
Essay in Student Publication
“Freedom Behind Bars: the Responses to the Haitian Revolution and their Influence upon the
Political and Economic Realities of Modern Haiti,” Mellon Undergraduate Minority Fellowship
Journal, 2000, 45-49
Online Publication
“The Perils of the Philanthropist President in Haiti” History News Network, March 29, 2010.
Works-in-Progress
“Guardians of Order: Police and Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1900-1930.” Book Manuscript
“Civilizing Rio: Modernity, Policing, and the Wages of the Poor in Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Guard,
1900-1930” Article Manuscript
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND WORKING SEMINARS
“Modernity, Patriarchy, and Public Order in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1889-1930” Presenter, AHA
panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2013
“Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the Atlantic World,” Commentator on panel “19th Century
Brazil,” The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) international
conference, College of Charleston, March 9-10, 2012
“Racial Silences in the Archive and the Historiography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America,”
Panel Organizer and Chair, Joint AHA/CLAH panel, American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, January 5-8, 2012
“Um ‘negro á-toa,’ an Insignificant Negro: Race, Public Order, and Policing in Rio de Janeiro,
1907-1930,” presenter, Joint AHA/CLAH panel, American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, 2012
“Public Order and the Private Sphere in Rio de Janeiro, 1900-1930,” New York City Workshop
in Latin American History, New York University, March 22, 2011, (invited)
“Institutionalizing the Republic: Law Enforcement Reforms in Rio de Janeiro, 1907-1930,” Latin
American History Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York, March 5-6,
2010
“Negotiating the Wages of the Poor in Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Guard at the Beginning of the
Twentieth Century,” Annual Graduate Student Conference on Latin America, University of
Maryland, College Park, March 25-26, 2010
“Para estes putos de guardas civis só balas: the Dilemmas of Law Enforcement in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, under the Old Republic,” Stony Brook University’s Annual Graduate Student Conference,
Stony Brook University, New York, April 9, 2010
“Police and Citizens: Law Enforcement in Rio de Janeiro, 1907-1930,” the American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2008
“Afro-Cubans and Post-1959 Articulation of Cuban Nationalism: Constructing the Identity of the
Post-Colonial State,” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Annual Conference, Dillard
University, New Orleans, June 2002
UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Executive Committee – History Department
Fall 2012
Graduate Committee – History Department
Fall 2012
Fulbright Committee Member, Expert on Brazil
University of South Carolina – Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs
Fall 2011
Legal Assistant and Translator
Yale University - Yale Law School Immigration Clinic
2003-2005
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Panelist, Educational Outreach Program
Yale University, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
February 2004
Radio Interview
WYBCX, Yale University Radio Station
February 2004
Umoja Volunteer, Mentor
New Haven, Connecticut
2002-2003
Graduate Student Advisor
“Klib Kreyol,” Yale University, Haitian Student Association
2002-2005
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association (AHA)
Council for Latin American History (CLAH)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
REFERENCES
Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, History Department, Yale
University. (203) 432 1375; [email protected]
Gilbert Joseph, Farnam Professor of History and International Studies, History Department, Yale
University. (203) 432 1380; [email protected]
Matt D. Childs, Associate Professor of History, History Department, University of South
Carolina, Columbia. (803) 777-3189; [email protected]
Gabrielle E. Kuenzli, Assistant Professor of History, History Department, University of South
Carolina, Columbia. (803) 777-2872; [email protected]