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James Woodard

Professor, History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Office:: Dickson Hall 320
Email:: woodardj@montclair.edu
Degrees:: BA, University of North Carolina; MA, Brown University; PhD, Brown University
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James Woodard joined the history faculty at Montclair State in 2006, having previously held visiting appointments at Brown University and the University of Maryland, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Since 2006, he has also served as a visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Assis and Franca (São Paulo state, Brazil) in 2012 and 2022, and as a Fulbright scholar hosted by the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil’s premiere research university, in 2010. He holds a Ph.D. and an A.M. in history from Brown University, where he studied under the direction of Thomas Skidmore, and a B.A., also in history, from the University of North Carolina. A historian of Brazil, he offers courses on Latin America generally, as well as in his specialty. His most recent book is Brazil’s Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE, the magazine of the American Library Association. He is also the author of A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt (Duke University Press, 2009); of articles published in the Hispanic American Historical Review (Duke University Press), Journal of Latin American Studies (Cambridge University Press), Journal of World History (University of Hawai‘i Press), Luso-Brazilian Review (University of Wisconsin Press), and The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (Cambridge University Press), among other journals; and of numerous essays in edited volumes published in Brazil and the United States. In 2018, Cambridge University Press published Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America, his co-translation, with Barbara Weinstein, of John Manuel Monteiro’s Negros da terra: índios e bandeirantes nas origens de São Paulo (Companhia das Letras, 1994).

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Fall

Monday: 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Thursday: 8:30 am - 9:30 am