Dr. Teresa Cribelli
Assistant Professor
teresa.cribelli@ua.eduPh.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2009
Research Interests
- Technological Innovation in Brazil
- Brazilian International Relations
- Brazilian Modernization
Specialties
Courses Taught
- History of Modern Argentina
- Western Civilization to 1648
- History of Brazil
- Slavery and Emancipation in Brazil
- History of Modern Latin America
- History of Colonial Latin America
Recent Publications
- Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016).
- with Brianta Royster, “O Ensino do Movimento dos Direitos Civis no Alabama,” in Educaçao e Diversidade em Diferentes Contextos, eds. Amilcar Araujo Pereira and Warley da Costa (Rio de Janeiro: Pallas Editora, 2015).
- “Império das Palmeiras: os Estados Unidos descobrem o império brasileiro,” in As Descobertas do Brasil, eds. Ana Cecilia Impellizieri Martins e Monique Sochaczewski (Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra, 2014): 70-127.
- “‘These Industrial Forests’: Economic Nationalism and the Search for Agro-industrial Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” Journal of Latin American Studies 45 (August 2013): 545-579.
- “O mais útil de todos os instrumentos: o arado e a valorização da terra no Brasil no século XIX,” (“The Most Useful of Instruments: The Plow and Land Valorization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil”) O Direito ás Avessas: uma história social da propriedade, eds. Márcia Motta and Maria Veronica Secreto (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense and Editora Horizonte, 2011): 291-315.
- “A Modern Monarch: Dom Pedro II’s visit to the United States in 1876,” The Journal of the Historical Society IX (2009): 223-54.
Current Projects
Awards and Honors
- Fellow, Dibner History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2016
- Baird Society Resident Scholar, Dibner Library of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution Libraries (2011)
- Fulbright IIE (2006-2007)
