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Alida C. Metcalf

Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History

Email: alida.c.metcalf [] rice.edu Phone: x21341 Office: 308 Humanities

Education

  • Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 1983
  • B.A. Smith College, 1976

Areas of Interest

  • Latin American history
  • The history of Brazil

Research and Teaching

Professor Metcalf began her teaching career at Indiana University, taught as a Fulbright lecturer in Brazil, and made her academic home for many years at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.  In June, 2009 she joined the faculty at Rice.  Her current research focuses on go-between and cartographers in the sixteenth-century Atlantic world.

 

Selected Publications

  • “Disillusioned Go-betweens: The Politics of Mediation and the Transformation of the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 77 (2008): 283-319.
  •  “Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” in The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin. New York: Routledge, 2007, 621-636.
  •  “Women as Go-Betweens? Patterns in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” in Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas, ed. Nora Jaffary.  Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2007, 15-28.
  •  Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2006.
  • Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822. Second Edition. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2005. [First Edition:  Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London:  University of California Press, 1992.]
  • “Jesuits in Brazil: Defining the Vision,” in The  Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture, 1573-1580, ed. Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.  Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2004, 787-814.
  • “Domingos Fernandes Nobre, ‘Tomacauna’:  a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” in The Human Tradition in Latin America:  The Colonial Period, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien. Wilmington, DE.:  Scholarly Resources, 2002, 51-63.

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 Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil (1992; 2005)   Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil (2006)

Curriculum Vitae