Latin America, Brazil, social history
Mieko Nishida
Professor of History and Department Chair
Dr. Nishida is the author of Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 (Indiana University Press, 2003); and Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, forthcoming [November 2017]). She is also Senior Editor (post 1888 Brazil) of Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editors-in-Chief, Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin Biography (Oxford University Press, 2016). Nishida has held many fellowships and grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina).
Recent courses taught:
- Colonial Latin America
- Modern Latin America
- History of Brazil
- Race and Nation in Latin America
- Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Gender and Power in Latin America
- Revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Travels to the “Third Word”
- The Politics of Identity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Diversity
- Historical Methods
Distinctions (awards, fellowships, and grants):
- National Humanities Center Fellowship, appointed as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2011-2012.
- Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2001.
- Summer Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Chicago-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Center for Latin American Studies, 2000.
- Library Scholars Summer Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2000.
- Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1992-1993.
- Predoctoral Research Fellowship, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, 1989-1991.
- Isadore Socolow Memorial Prize, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989.
Selected publications:
- Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, forthcoming [November 2017]).
- Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003).
- “Japanese Immigration to Brazil,” in William Beezley, Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming [July-September 2017]).
- “Slavery and Gender,” in Trevor Burnard, ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- “‘Why Does a Nikkei Want to Talk to Other Nikkeis?’: Japanese Brazilians and Their Identities in São Paulo,” Critique of Anthropology, 29: 4 (December 2009), pp. 423-445.
- “From Ethnicity to Race and Gender: Transformations of Black Lay Sodalities in Salvador, Brazil,” Journal of Social History, 32:2 (Winter 1998), pp. 329-348.
- “Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 73:3 (August 1993), pp. 361-391.
- Senior Editor (Post 1888 Brazil), Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin Biography, Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editors-in-Chief, six vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
College services and professional affiliations:
- Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion (2014-present)
- Committee on Faculty Awards and Research (2014-present)
- American Historical Association
- Conference on Latin American History
- Latin American Studies Association