GEORGE REID ANDREWS
Department of History University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 648-7451 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph. D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978
M. A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
B.A., History, Dartmouth College, 1972
EMPLOYMENT
Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008--
Chair, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2001, 2006-7, 2010-14
UCIS (University Center of International Studies) Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1991--
Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1983-91
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, 1981-83
Staff Associate, Social Science Research Council, New York, NY, 1978-81
HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS
Provost’s Excellence in Mentoring Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Fulbright Specialists Program grant, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, 2014
Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, Harvard University, 2012
Speaker and Specialist Grant, U.S. Department of State, 2011
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 2011
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 2005
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, 2001
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996-97
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 1996
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 1993
Postdoctoral research grant, Social Science Research Council, 1984-85
Senior research grant, Fulbright-Hays Program, 1984-85
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983
Herfurth Award for Outstanding Social Science Research, University of Wisconsin, 1981
Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 1981
International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 1975-77
Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation fellowship, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975-76
Research training fellowship, Foreign Area Fellowship Program, 1973
National Defense Education Act Title VI Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1972-75
Phi Beta Kappa; B.A. magna cum laude; Jones Prize in American History, Dartmouth College, 1972
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Awarded the 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. Spanish translation: Negros en la nación blanca: Historia de los afro-uruguayos, 1830-2010. Montevideo: Librería Linardi y Risso, 2011.
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Awarded the 2005 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies; Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005. Portuguese translation: América Afro- Latina, 1800-2000. São Carlos: Editora da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007. Spanish translation: Afro-Latinoamérica, 1800-2000. Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2007.
The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990, co-edited with Herrick Chapman. London and New York: Macmillan Press Ltd. and New York University Press, 1995.
Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Awarded the 1993 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. Portuguese translation: Negros e brancos em São Paulo, 1888-1988. Bauru: Editora da Universidade do Sagrado Coração, 1998.
The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Slavery in Brazil, co-authored with Rebecca J. Scott et al. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.
The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. Awarded the 1981 Herfurth Award for Outstanding Social Science Research, University of Wisconsin; and Honorable Mention for the 1981 Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History. Spanish translation: Los afroargentinos de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1989.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Los afrodescendientes en los censos latinoamericanos, 1776-2011,” Claves: Revista de Historia 2 (2016): 257-78.
“Epilogue: Whitening and Its Discontents,” in Paulina Laura Alberto and Eduardo Elena, eds., Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 318-26.
“Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990-2010,” Journal of Social History 47, 4 (2014): 829-854. French translation: “Inégalité raciale au Brésil et aux États-Unis, 1990-2010,” Brésil(s). Sciences humaines et sociales 5 (2014): 219-47. Portuguese translation: “Desigualdade racial no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos, 1990-2010,” Afro- Ásia 51 (2015): 141-74.
Afro-World: African-Diaspora Thought and Practice in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1830- 2000,” The Americas 67, 1 (2010): 83-107. Awarded the 2012 Tibesar Prize, Conference on Latin American History.
“Afro-Latin America: Five Questions,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4, 2 (2009): 191-210.
“Diaspora Crossings: Recent Research on Afro-Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 48, 3 (2008): 209-24.
“Workers, Soldiers, Activists: Comparing Black Political Mobilization in Brazil and Spanish America, 1800-2000,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 19, 1 (2008): 11-34.
“Remembering Africa, Inventing Uruguay: Sociedades de Negros in the Montevideo Carnival, 1865-1930,” Hispanic American Historical Review 87, 4 (2007): 693-726. Spanish translation: “Recordando África, al inventar a Uruguay: Sociedades de negros en el carnaval de Montevideo, 1865-1930,” Revista de Estudios Sociales 26 (Bogotá, 2007): 86-104. Reprinted in Claudia Leal and Carl Langebaek, eds., Historias de raza y nación en América Latina (Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2010), 231-75.
“Black Movements in Latin America, 1970-2000,” in Diaspora: Movement, Memory, Politics, and Identity (Carlisle, PA: The Clarke Center at Dickinson College, 2003): 88- 98.
"Forms of Black Political Response in Brazil,” in Beyond Racism: Embracing an Interdependent Future, vol. 4, Color Collage (Atlanta: Southern Education Foundation, 2000): 96-103.
"O olhar estrangeiro: Americanos e brasileiros," in Jeferson Bacelar and Carlos Caroso, eds., Brasil: Um país de negros? (Rio de Janeiro: Pallas Editora, 1998): 27-33.
"Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil" (Albuquerque: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1997).
"Black Workers in the Export Years: Latin America, 1880-1930," International Labor and Working-Class History 51 (1997): 1-23.
"Ação afirmativa: Um modelo para o Brasil?" in Jessé Souza, ed., Multiculturalismo e racismo: Uma comparação Brasil-Estados Unidos (Brasília: Paralelo 15, 1997): 137- 44.
"Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint," Journal of Contemporary History 31, 3 (1996): 483-507. Portuguese translation: “Democracia racial brasileira, 1900-1990: Um contraponto americano," Estudos Avançados 30 (1997): 95-115.
"The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990," co-authored with Herrick Chapman, in George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman, eds., The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990 (London and New York: Macmillan Press Ltd. and New York University Press, 1995): 1-28.
"Black Political Mobilization in Brazil, 1975-1990," in Andrews and Chapman, Social Construction of Democracy (1995): 218-40. Portuguese translation: “Mobilizacão política negra no Brasil, 1975-1990,” História: Questões e Debate 63, 2 (2015): 13-39.
"The Black Legions of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1800-1900," in Darién J. Davis, ed., Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1995): 55-80.
"Afro-Latin America: The Late 1900s," Journal of Social History 28, 2 (1994): 120-36. Portuguese translation: "América afro-latina: O final do século XX," Estudos Afro- Asiáticos 25 (1993): 7-24.
"Commentary: George Reid Andrews, Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888- 1988," co-authored with Emília Viotti da Costa and Franklin Knight, Luso-Brazilian Review 29, 3 (1992): 141-58.
"Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States: A Statistical Comparison," Journal of Social History 26, 2 (1992): 229-63. Reprinted in Jorge I. Domínguez, ed., Mexico, Central and South America: New Perspectives, vol. 5, Race and Ethnicity (New York: Routledge, 2001), 231-65. Portuguese translation: “Desigualdade racial no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos: Uma comparação estatística," Estudos Afro-Asiáticos 22 (1992): 47- 83. Spanish translation: "Desigualdad racial en Brasil y en Estados Unidos: Un estudio estadístico comparado," Desarrollo Económico 33, 130 (1993): 185-216. French translation: “Inégalité raciale au Brésil et aux États-Unis: comparaison statistique,” Brésil(s): Sciences humaines et sociales 5 (2014): 175-217.
"Black Political Protest in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988," Journal of Latin American Studies 24, 1 (1992): 147-72. Reprinted in Jorge I. Domínguez, ed., Essays on Mexico, Central and South America: Scholarly Debates from the 1950s to the 1990s (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994). Portuguese translation: "Protesto político negro em São Paulo, 1888-1988," Estudos Afro-Asiáticos 21 (1991): 27-48.
"Black and White Workers: São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1928," Hispanic American Historical Review 68, 3 (1988): 491-524. Reprinted in Rebecca J. Scott et al., The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Emancipation in Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988).
"Latin American Workers," Journal of Social History 21, 2 (1987): 311-26.
"Comparing the Comparers: White Supremacy in the United States and South Africa," Journal of Social History 20, 4 (1987): 585-99.
"Latin American Urban History," The History Teacher 19, 4 (1986): 499-515.
"Spanish American Independence: A Structural Analysis," Latin American Perspectives 12, 1 (1985): 105-32. Reprinted in Miguel Angel Centeno, ed., Warfare in Latin America (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), vol. 1, 119-46.
"Race and State in Colonial Brazil," Latin American Research Review 19, 3 (1984): 203-16.
"No Revolution in the Historiography of the Revolution," Radical History Review 27(1983): 174-84.
"Race versus Class Association: The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1850-1900," Journal of Latin American Studies 11, 1 (1979): 19-39.
"The Afro-Argentine Officers of Buenos Aires Province, 1800-1860," Journal of Negro History 64, 2 (1979): 85-100. Reprinted in Peter Karsten, ed., The Military and Society: A Collection of Essays (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), vol. 1, 85-100.
"Toward a Re-Evaluation of the Latin American Family Firm: The Industry Executives of Monterrey," Inter-American Economic Affairs 30, 3 (1976): 23-40.
Short Essays
“Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History,” http://blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/afro-uruguay- brief-history (2011).
“Argentina’s Black Legions,” in James A. Wood and John C. Chasteen, eds., Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), 10-14.
“Race Counts,” Latin American Studies Association Forum 38, 3 (2007): 12-14.
“Afroargentinos, sus organizaciones comunitarias” (abridged version, chapter 8, The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires), in Torcuato S. di Tella, ed., Repertorio político latinoamericano (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores, 2007), vol. 1, 187-91.
“Afro-Latin America: 2000 and Beyond,” “João Cândido,” and “Jesús Menéndez,” in Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, eds., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): vol. 1, 127-31, 728-29; vol. 3, 796-97.
"Rhythm Nation: The Drums of Montevideo," ReVista 2, 2 (2003): 64-68.
"Cultural and Political Organizations in Latin America," in Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, eds., Africana: The Encylopedia of the African and African American Experience (New York: Basic/Civitas Books, 1999): 545-47.
"South America," in Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman, eds., A Historical Guide to World Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 389-95.
"Warren Dean's The Industrialization of São Paulo," in "Warren Dean: An Appreciation," New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Occasional Paper 48 (1996): 11-16.
"Social History and the Populist Moment: Contesting the Political Terrain," Journal of Social History 29, Supplement, Social History and the American Political Climate: Problems and Strategies (1995): 109-13.
"The Black Legions," in John C. Chasteen and Joseph Tulchin, eds., Problems in Latin American History (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1994): 29-34.
"Bourbon Reforms," "Comparative History," and "Latin American Ethnicity," in Peter N. Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of Social History (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994): 83- 84, 162-66, 396-97.
"O negro no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos," Lua Nova 2, 1 (1985): 52-56.
"Africa in the World: The Black Diaspora in Latin America," Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981): 478-81.
"The Archivo Arquidiocesano of Caracas," The Americas 35, 4 (1979): 581-85.
Book reviews in American Historical Review, The Americas, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Claves: Revista de Historia, Cuban Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, International Labor and Working-Class History, Journal of American History, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Social History, Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista Afro-Asia, Suplemento Literário de Minas Gerais.
COURSES Undergraduate Courses
Afro-Latin America Brazil Colonial Latin America Latin American Revolutions Modern Latin America Urban Latin America US-Latin American Relations
Graduate Courses
Afro-Latin America Brazil Comparative Race Relations Dependency Theory Latin American Readings Latin American Research Preparing the Dissertation Race in Latin America State and Society in Latin America
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest Lectures, Papers, Panels
Argentina: Universidad de Buenos Aires (2000, 2014); Universidad de San Andrés (2000)
Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Estudos Americanos (1988); Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea (CEDEC) (1985); Congresso Afro-Brasileiro, Salvador (1997); Ministério de Justiça (1996); Latin American Studies Association (2009); Pontifícia Universidade Católica-São Paulo (1984); Secretaria de Estado de Relações do Trabalho, São Paulo (1988); Universidade Cândido Mendes (1992); Universidade de São Paulo (1988); Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1984, 1988); Universidade Federal da Bahia (1996); Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1990); Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2008); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (1984); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1988, 2012); Universidade Federal Fluminense (2012)
Canada: Latin American Studies Association (2007, 2010); University of Manitoba (2009)
Colombia: Universidad de Cartagena (2011, 2016); Universidad del Valle (2014)
Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica (2007)
France: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2013)
United States: Allegheny College (1984, 1989, 2002); American Historical Association (1991, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007); Brazilian Studies Association (2006); Brown University (1978, 1994, 2006); California State Polytechnic University-Pomona (1982); California State University-Los Angeles (1982); Carnegie Mellon University (2004, 2006, 2009); Chatham University (2008, 2014); Colgate University (2012); Columbia University (1980, 1992); CUNY Graduate Center (2016); Dartmouth College (1976, 1997); Dickinson College (2002, 2011); Emory University (2011); Harvard University (1998, 2011, 2012, 2015); Johns Hopkins University (1998); Latin American Studies Association (1977, 1982, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016); Michigan State University (2005); Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (1992, 2003, 2006, 2012); National Conference of Black Political Scientists (2000); New York University (1998, 2011); Ohio Academy of History (2009); Pennsylvania State University (2004, 2008); Pomona College (1982); Princeton University (1988, 2006, 2011); Sarah Lawrence College (2004); Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (2002); Smithsonian Institution (1992); Social Science History Association (1996); Swarthmore College (2005); Tulane University (1997, 2001, 2004); United States Naval Academy (2012); University of California-Irvine (1982); University of California-Los Angeles (1982); University of California-San Diego (1986, 1987, 2008); University of Florida (1993, 1996); University of Illinois (2012); University of Michigan (2009); University of North Carolina (2005); University of North Carolina-Charlotte (2015); University of Richmond (1977); University of Texas (2008); Washington University in St. Louis (2013); Wesleyan University (1981); West Virginia University (1998, 2013); Xavier University of New Orleans (1997); Yale University (1999, 2015)
Uruguay: Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (CLAEH) (2011); Instituto de Profesores Artigas (2011); Organizaciones Mundo Afro, Montevideo (2004); Ubuntu (2011); Universidad de la República (2001, 2011); Universidad de Montevideo (2011)
Editorial Boards
Afro-Latin America Series, Cambridge University Press (co-editor, 2015--); The Americas (2014--); Claves: Revista de Historia (2015--); Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Brazil, 1998--); Hispanic American Historical Review (1992-1995; Senior Editor, 2007-12); Journal of Social History (1984--); Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (2015- -); Pittsburgh Latin America Series, University of Pittsburgh Press (1994-2007; General Editor, 2002-07); Revista Afro-Asia (Brazil, 1996--); Slavery and Abolition (2013--)
Referee
Foundations: American Philosophical Society; National Endowment for the Humanities; Social Science Research Council; Tinker Foundation
Journals: American Historical Review; The Americas; Atlantic Studies; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe; Ethnohistory; Hispanic American Historical Review; Journal of American History; Journal of Contemporary History; Journal of Family History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Negro History; Journal of Social History; Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies; Latin American Politics and Society; Latin American Research Review; Luso-Brazilian Review; Qualitative Sociology; Radical History Review; Revista Afro-Asia; Revista de Historia del Derecho; Social Science History; Topoi: Revista de História; Urban History
Publishers: Cambridge University Press; Harvard University Press; Holmes and Meier; Holt Rinehart Winston; Oxford University Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; Princeton University Press; Temple University Press; University of Minnesota Press; University of Mississippi Press; University of New Mexico Press; University of North Carolina Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; University of Texas Press
Tenure and promotion reviews: Albright College; Binghamton University; Carnegie Mellon University; City College of New York; Colgate University; Columbia University; Connecticut College; Cornell University; CUNY Graduate Center; Duke University; Emory University; Florida International University; Georgetown University; Harvard University; Hunter College; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Johns Hopkins University; New York University; Northwestern University; Princeton University; Trinity College; Tulane University; University of California-Berkeley; University of California-Irvine; University of California-Los Angeles; University of Chicago; University of Connecticut; University of Florida; University of Houston; University of Idaho; University of Massachusetts-Amherst; University of Miami; University of Michigan; University of Mississippi; University of Texas; Washington State University; Washington University in St. Louis; Yale University
Professional Associations
American Historical Association Professional Division (1994-96) Graduate Student Task Force (1995-96) Program Committee (2003)
Conference on Latin American History Bolton Prize Committee (1987) Distinguished Service Award Committee (2006) General Committee (2007-12) Nominating Committee (2014) Program Committee (1992; Chair, 1999) Scobie Prize Committee (1992-94)
Latin American Studies Association Program Committee (1986) Nominating Committee (2001) Mellon/LASA Seminar Selection Committee (2009-12)