EPHEMERAL & MUNDANE Life and Death in 19th-century Brazil

Distinguished Visitor Zephyr Frank is professor of Latin American history and Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University.  He was also the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. He is the author of Reading Rio de Janeiro:  Literature and Society in the 19th Century and Dutra's World:  Wealth and Family in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro, among several other publications concerning urban history and the social and cultural history of Brazil.