Jeffrey Needell
Office: 311 Grinter Hall Website:
Phone: (352) 392-8328
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: jneedell@history.ufl.edu
Website:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jneedell/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Jeffrey D. Needell received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Stanford University, his M.A. (Latin American and colonial African history) in 1977 from Yale University, and his A.B. (history) in 1974 from the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Department of History in 1987 after teaching at the University of Oregon (1982-85) and serving as an administrator (1985-87) in the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.). He has published A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Society and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987) and The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (2006).
Professor Needell teaches general courses on the history
of Latin America after 1750 and more specific courses on the history of Brazil
and the history of Amazonia. His current research interests focus on
Afro-Brazilian political mobilization in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro,
particularly in the movement for slavery's abolition (1879-1888).
