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Northern Illinois University

Department of History

Anne G. Hanley
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor

Fields of Study: Latin America, Economic and Business, Urban

E-mail: ahanley@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-6695
Office: Zulauf 615

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

Current Research: My current research project is titled "Municipal Finance and Socio-Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century São Paulo, Brazil." I am examining taxation and spending patterns in of a number of municipalities in the state of São Paulo to study how municipal leaders made decisions about providing public goods such as lighting, water and sewer services, public health and education facilities to their citizens. By examining the ways municipal government raised and invested funds, and how these arrangements changed over time, I study the public administration of socioeconomic development in Brazil’s first century as an independent nation. This research is funded by a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.

Major/Recent Publications:

  • Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920, Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • “Is It Who You Know? Entrepreneurs and Bankers in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Enterprise and Society, Vo. 5, No. 2 (June 2004).
  • “A Bolsa de Valores e o financiamento de empresas em São Paulo, 1886-1917” História Econômica e História de Empresas Volume IV, Number 1 (2001).
  • “Business Finance and the São Paulo Bolsa, 1886-1917” in Latin America and the World Economy: Essays in Quantitative Economic History edited by John Coatsworth and Alan Taylor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Teaching Interests: I enjoy teaching courses on modern Latin America, with an emphasis on the region’s economic, political, and social underdevelopment. I regularly teach Modern Latin America, a survey from independence (1820s) to the present, and History of Brazil, which covers the sweep of Brazilian history from the early encounters between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans to the modern day. I offer the course Poverty and Progress in Latin America that explores the roots of modern Latin America's persistent gap between rich and poor and enjoy teaching Latin America through Film.

Courses Taught:

  • HIST 381 Colonial Latin America
  • HIST 382 Modern Latin America
  • HIST 383 Latin America Through Film
  • HIST 484 History of Brazil
  • HIST 486 Poverty and Progress in Latin America
  • HIST 491 Introduction to Historical Research

Interdisciplinary Affiliations:
Center for Latino and Latin American Studies

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