Stanley E. Blake
Assistant Professor

A.B. 1990 Bowdoin College, M.A. 1995 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D. 2001 State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Professor Blake specializes in modern Brazilian and Latin American history.  His research interests include race and national identity in Latin America, Latin American political and economic history, and the history of medicine and public health in the Americas.  He is currently at work on a manuscript based on his dissertation “The Invention of the Nordestino: Race, Region, and Identity in Northeastern Brazil, 1889-1945.”  The project examines the development of a regional identity in northeastern Brazil and the ways in which this identity reflected the region’s changing economic and political position within the nation in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery.  His most recent publication, “The Medicalization of Nordestinos: Public Health and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil 1889-1930,” appeared in The Americas.

The courses Professor Blake teaches include a two-quarter survey of Latin American history, World history, the history of Brazil, the history of Mexico, U.S.-Latin American relations, and the social history of medicine.