Alida Metcalf Academic Papers

Collection

Identifier: UA 0303

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

The papers include posters made for the History 251 class in the spring of 2012 about life in Rio de Janeiro.

Dates

Creation: 2012

Conditions Governing Access

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Access Restrictions

These materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Alida Metcalf academic papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Biographical / Historical

Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American history. At the graduate level, she regularly offers seminars in the history of the Luso-Atlantic World, Brazil, and Colonial Latin America. Metcalf directs the Dual Degree program between the history departments of Rice and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, which allows highly talented graduate students to earn two Ph.Ds, one from Rice and one from UNICAMP. Metcalf’s current research focuses on the history of water in Rio de Janeiro. With Fares el-Dahdah she co-directs imagineRio, a digital humanities project on the social and architectural history of Rio de Janeiro.