Assistant Professor
Amy Chazkel is an historian of modern Latin America, whose research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil. She received her Ph.D. (December 2002) from Yale University and joined the City University of New York faculty in the fall of 2002 as Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, where she teaches courses that include urban history, crime and justice, and slavery and its legacies in Latin America. Her book manuscript entitled Laws of Chance: The Jogo do Bicho and the Making of Urban Public Life in Brazil (forthcoming from Duke University Press) is a study of petty crime, the incipient informal sector, and the origins of modern, Brazilian urban society. She has held visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow positions at the CUNY Center for the Humanities, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies, and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/ Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais. Recent articles include a social history of the Rio de Janeiro city jail.
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