Dr. Gerald M. Greenfield

Office: Molinaro 129

Phone: 262-595-2103

E-Mail: Gerald Greenfield

 

 

• Education:
  
• B.A., SUNY at Buffalo, 1967
• MA, Brooklyn College, 1969
• Ph.D, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1975

• Teaching Areas:


• Latin American History-- Brazil and Mexico
• Latin-US Relations
• American History
• Popular Culture

• Research Areas:
  
• Brazilian History

• Major Publications:
  
  • The Realities of Images. Imperial Brazil and the Great Drought, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 2001 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 91, Pt. 1)
  • Coeditor (with John D. Buenker), Those United States: International Perspectives on American History, 2 vols., (Dallas: Harcourt Brace, 2000).
  • Editor,Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities (Greenwood Press, 1994)
  • Coeditor with Sheldon L. Maram, Latin American Labor Organizations (Greenwood Press, 1987)
  • Coauthor with Gary Elbow, Western Hemisphere(Silver Burdett, and Ginn, 1992)
  • "The Great Drought and Elite Discourse in Imperial Brazil," Hispanic American Historical Review (August 1992)
  • Other articles include such journals as: Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Urban History, Social Science History, and Luso-Brazilian Review

• Work in Progress:

• Lifetimes of Drought: The Brazilian Northeast's Unending Crisis

• Awards, Honors, and Fellowships:
  
  • UW-Parkside, Outstanding Service Award, 1996
  • UW-Parkside Outstanding Teaching Award, 1996
  • American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1985, 1994
  • Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer, Aug.-Dec. 1981

• Current Courses:

  • Evolution of Latin America
  • Topics in Latin American History: Brazil, Mexico, or Latin American-US Relations
  • Evolution of the United States, 1607-1877
  • Modernization of the United States, 1877-Present