Mary Ann Mahony

Associate Professor of History
Co-Coordinator, Latin American Studies

Department of History
208 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Phone: (860) 832-0119
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: mahonym@ccsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: Latin America, Brazilian history, the Social and Cultural History of Rural Areas

Mary Ann Mahony received her B.A. in Spanish language and literature from the College of the Holy Cross, M.A. in history from Tufts University; and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1996. She joined the faculty of CCSU in 2003. Prior to her appointment, she taught at Columbia College (South Carolina) and the University of Notre Dame. She received a 2002 Fulbright Fellowship for Teaching and Research to be in residence at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and a 2001/2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors. She was also a participant in a 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Instructors entitled "Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas," sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Dr. Mahony’s teaching interests include Latin American history, Brazilian history, social & cultural history, and world history. Her research interests focus upon the history and politics of rural Brazil. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled, Revisiting the Violent Land: Bahia’s Cacao Area, 1850-1937.

Selected publications:

• "The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Brazil’s Cacao Sector," in Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds., Latin America and the Global Economy: A Commodity Chains Perspective (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
• "Instrumentos necesarios: Escravidão e posse de escravos no sul da Bahia no século dezenove" Afro-Ásia, no.25-26, (2001): 95-139.
• "A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Historical Representation, Collective Memory and Elite Rule in Twentieth-Century Southern Bahia, Brazil," in Gilbert Joseph, ed., Reestablishing the Political in Latin American History: A View from the North, Duke University Press, 2001.
• "Afro-Brazilians, Land Reform, and the Question of Social Mobility in Southern Bahia, 1880-1920," Luso-Brazilian Review 34, no. 2 (Winter 1997): 59-79. [Reprinted in Hendrik Kraay, ed., The Politics and Culture of Afro-Bahia: 1790s-1970s, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, January 1998), pp. 90-116.]