About
Sueann Caulfield is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she was the former director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and currently heads the Brazil Initiative Social Sciences Cluster. She specializes in the history of modern Brazil, with emphasis on gender and sexuality. She has won awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications include In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation In Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, the co-edited volume Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin American History, and various articles on gender and historiography, family law, race, and sexuality in Brazil. Her current research focuses on family history with a focus on paternity and legitimacy in twentieth-century Brazil. She is particularly interested in questions of human rights in Latin America, and has participated in a number of workshops, cross-country teaching projects, and exchanges around topics of social justice and social action.
Selected Publications:
"The Right to a Father's Name: State Efforts to Erase the Stigma of Illegitimacy in Twenty-First-Century Brazil." Law and History Review, 2011
Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin American History, co-edited with Sarah Chambers and Lara Putnam. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005
In Defense of Honor: Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000
Affiliation(s)
- Residential College
- Women's Studies
- Ph.D Program in Anthropology and History
Field(s) of Study
Sueann Caulfield is Professor of History.
