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Region, Nation, and Social Science: An Interview with Joseph L. Love on 50 Years of Studying Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

Zephyr Frank
Affiliation:
Stanford UniversityStanford, Californiazfrank@stanford.edu
Glen Goodman
Affiliation:
University of IllinoisChampaign, Illinoisggoodman@illinois.edu
James Woodard
Affiliation:
Montclair State UniversityMontclair, New Jerseywoodardj@mail.montclair.edu

Extract

In late September 2016, the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) hosted a symposium on regionalism in Brazilian history to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Joseph L. Love's arrival at Illinois. Organized by the Institute's director, Professor Jerry Dávila, the symposium brought together historians from the United States and Brazil for a day-long discussion of an issue that continues to attract scholarly attention in both countries. Love himself contributed to the study of Brazilian regionalism with two landmark studies: Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, 1882–1930 (1971) and São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889–1937 (1980). The latter was produced alongside John Wirth's Minas Gerais in the Brazilian Federation, 1889–1937 (1977) and Robert Levine's Pernambuco in the Brazilian Federation, 1889–1937 (1978) as part of a larger project conceived and carried out through a decade's worth of unprecedentedly close collaboration. At Illinois, Love inspired hundreds of undergraduates with his award-winning teaching and trained a bi-national cohort of graduate students who have gone on to careers of great distinction in Brazil and in the United States.

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Footnotes

In addition to the interview questions reported below, other questions were addressed electronically over the months that followed. Transcripts of these exchanges were then condensed and edited for readability, eliminating redundancies and making for clarity on the page in cases where what was apparent in conversation was less so in transcription. Because the interview was a collective effort, no one person's name is attached to the questions addressed in this interview.

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