Vitor Izecksohn

Vitor Izecksohn is  full professor in the Graduate Program of Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His has a PhD in History from the University of New Hampshire and did his post doc at Brown University where he also served as a visiting professor under a Fulbright Fellowship in 2011. He was a Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York Historical Society), the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University). Prof. Izecksohn was also a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library (2016) and the Max Planck Institute for the Study for European Legal History. He served at visiting professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs/George Washington University. Izecksohn is the author of, Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870 (University of Virginia Press, 2014), as well as two earlier books published in Brazil: A History of the Brazilian Liberal Political Though in the Twentieth Century (1990), and The Chorus of Disagreement: The Paraguayan War and the Professional Nucleus of the Brazilian Corps of Officers(2002). He co-authored Nova História Militar Brasileira (2004). These books, along with his chapters and journal articles, engage in renewed debates about the New Brazilian Military History and the process of internationalization in the American Civil War.  His research current research, “Race, and Militias in colonial Rio de Janeiro and Massachusetts," analyzes how wartime recruitment refracted political dynamics at local, regional and Imperial levels.