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Hal Langfur, Assistant Professor

on Fellowship Leave for 2005/2006

email: hlangfur@buffalo.edu

Education:

A.B., Harvard, 1982, magna cum laude

M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, 1995, 1999

Courses Regularly Taught:

Field(s): North and South Atlantic History

Hub(s): Knowledge; Culture and Society; Transnational Developments

Research Interests: Research: Colonial and post-independence Brazil; early modern Atlantic world; race relations; comparative indigenous history; cross-cultural encounters; cultures of violence.

Current Research: I am currently working on two book projects, the first entitled "Adrift on an Inland Sea: The Projection of Colonial Power in the Brazilian Wilderness," the second entitled "Negotiating Terror: Brazil's Indian Wars and Violence as Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Atlantic World."

Selected Publications:

The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830.   Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. "The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions to the Sert? in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1750-1808," The Americas 61:4 (April 2005): 429-62. "Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazi," Ethnohistory 52:2 (spring 2005): 255-89. With Stuart B. Schwartz.  "Tapanhuns, Negros da Terra, and Curibocas: Common Cause and Confrontation between Blacks and Indians in Colonial Brazil" in Black and Red: African-Indigenous Relations in Colonial Latin America, ed. Matthew Restall (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2005), 81-114. "Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late-Colonial Brazil," Hispanic American Historical Review 82:2 (May 2002): 215-56. "Best Article" on Latin America award, 2001-2, Southern Historical Association.

"Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians," Journal of Social History 32:4 (Summer 1999): 879-905.

Awards:

•  Forbidden Lands received an “honorable mention” for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize awarded by the American Society for Ethnohistory for the best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory published in 2006.

•  Forbidden Lands received an “honorable mention” for the 2007 Warren Dean Prize, awarded semi-annually by the Conference on Latin American History for the best book or article on Brazilian history

•  Fulbright Lecturing/Research Grant, Universidade Federal de S? Jo? del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2005.

•  Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research, American Historical Association, 2003.

•  National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2001-2.

•  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Population Research Center, University of Texas, 1998.

•  Tibesar Prize for most distinguished article published in the journal The Americas , 2005

•  Conference on Latin American History Prize for best article on Latin America, 2006