Alida C. Metcalf

Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History

Email: alida.c.metcalf [] rice.edu Phone: x 2134  Office: 308 Humanities

Education

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

Areas of Interest

• Brazilian history
• Colonial Latin America
• Luso-Atlantic World
• Historical Cartography

Research and Teaching

Alida Metcalf teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American history. Her undergraduate courses include Latin American Cultural Traditions, Brazil: Continuities and Changes, and Rio de Janeiro: A Social and Architectural History (with Farès el-Dahdah). At the graduate level, she regularly offers seminars in the history of the Luso-Atlantic World and Colonial Latin America. She is accepting Ph.D. students in Latin American History, especially those interested in Brazil. Her current research focuses on go-betweens and cartographers in the sixteenth-century Atlantic world and the social and architectural history of Rio de Janeiro (with Farès el-Dahdah).

Selected Publications

• The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World, with Eve M. Duffy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
• 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.]

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil (1992; 2005)	Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil (2006)	The Return of Hans Staden (2012)

Curriculum Vitae

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