U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Thomas Holloway
Professor

E: thholloway@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-3048
O: 4209 SSH

Academic Biography

Tom Holloway is the editor of the Blackwell Companion to Latin American History. He served as Director of the UCD Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, 2000-07, as Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History, 2002-07, and is a Past President of the Latin American Studies Association (2000-01). From 1974 until his arrival at UC Davis in 2000 he was on the History faculty of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where he also served as Director of the Latin American Studies Program for several years.
BA in Hispanic Civilization in 1968 from the University of California-Santa Barbara (1968), MA in Ibero-American Studies (1969) and Ph.D. in Latin American History (1974) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research Interests

Social history of modern Latin America, with a special focus on Brazil. Currently researching the case of an Afro-Brazilian newspaper editor notoriously murdered in Rio de Janeiro in 1883, whose memory was then virtually eliminated from the historical record.

Selected Publications

Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City, (Stanford U. Press, 1993)

Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934, (University of North Carolina Press, 1980)

The Brazilian Coffee Valorization of 1906: Regional Politics and Economic Dependence, (Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1975)

“Whose Conquest is This, Anyway? Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” in Donald Stevens, ed., Based on a True Story: Latin America at the Movies, (Scholarly Resources, 1997), pp. 29-46