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zephyr frank

Zephyr Frank

Assistant Professor of Latin American History

E-mail: zfrank@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 2000

Ph.D Illinois 1999; M.A. UCLA 1993

Research Interests

Courses Taught

  • Culture, Politics, and Society in Latin America
  • Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2000
  • Modern Brazil

Recent Publications

  • Stature in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro: preliminary evidence from prison records," Revista de Historia Económica (Madrid), 2nd series, vol. 3 (winter 2006)
  • From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, editors
  • "Cities and Wealth in the South Atlantic: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro before 1860," Comparative Studies in Society and History 48:3 (July 2006), with Lyman Johnson
  • "Wealth Holding in Southeastern Brazil, 1815-1860," Hispanic American Historical Review 85:2 (2005)
  • Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Ninteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004)