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Geography,University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
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E-mail: sbell@geog.ucla.edu
Citizenship: Canadian and European (United Kingdom)
Languages: English,
French, German, Portuguese and Spanish - all to very high standards
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Ph.D. Ranching in the Campanha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1850-1920: An Historical Geography of Uneven Development, (394 pages), University of Toronto, November 1991, supervised by Prof. J.H. Galloway
Major field: The Historical and Cultural Geography of Latin America (especially of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay)
Minor field: The International Economy since 1870
M.A. Degree based
on course work and a research paper, Foreign Investment and the Historical
Geography of Brazil, 1850-1930, (176 pages), University of Toronto, February
1980
B.A. The Queen's
College, Oxford University
Honours Degree from the School of Geography, 1978
Internationale Sommerschule, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977
1996 May-August. Research in Buenos Aires and Porto Alegre
1995 November-December. Research in Buenos Aires and Porto Alegre
1994 August. Fieldwork in southern Brazil, organized around the Encontro da História e Geografía do Prata at the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio Grande do Sul
1989 November-December.
Research in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro
1982-83 October-December.
Thirteen months of doctoral field research, based mainly in Porto Alegre,
Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo
1980 July-August. Doctoral research preliminary survey trip to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre
1999 - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
1989-99 Research Associate, Department of Geography, McGill University.
My teaching at
McGill concentrated on four themes:
1) the evolution
of food systems in Latin America;
2) unequal development
(the historical roots of underdevelopment in Latin America;
3) current development
problems in Brazil and
4) the history
and philosophy of geography.
I have also led
McGill's interdisciplinary seminar in Latin American Studies; in Fall Semester
1993 the theme was The City in Latin America
1985-89 Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (four separate contractually-limited term appointments).
Responsible for
a teaching load of six semester-length courses each academic year.
During my four
years at Mount Allison I taught nearly the entire geography curriculum
(17 out of 18 courses), repeating ten courses in the Department of Continuing
Education
B.A. Honours
Theses Supervised:
(1989) Traci
E. Brisby, "Beyond Petticoats and Parlours: Female Roles in the Settlement
of the Prairies and the Pampas, 1880-1930."
(1988) Thomas A. Gillmore, "Agricultural Policy in Zimbabwe since Independence: A Geographical Interpretation."
1984-85 Part-time Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto.
I taught the first semester of a year-long course in historical and cultural geography "Food, Environment and Man" in the Department of Geography, repeated as an evening course for Woodsworth College. I first taught this course in the summer session of 1982
1984 Teaching Assistant for a course on the geographical problems of contemporary Latin America
1978-82 Teaching Assistant in the course "Food, Environment and Man" for four consecutive years
1994 "Issues and Opportunities for Involvement."
Report to the
CRB [Charles Bronfman] Foundation of Montreal on the XVIII International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 10-12
March 1994
1982 From October to December preliminary research in São Paulo and Paraná, Brazil for a project with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC] on the social and economic implications of the Brazilian Pro-alcohol energy scheme. Assistant to Prof. J.H. Galloway
1979 Spent the
summer as the assistant to the Company Historian of "Brascan, Ltd." researching
the history of this giant Brazilian public utility concern from the Foreign
Office files of the Public Record Office, London, England. See Duncan L.
McDowall, The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited,
1899-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988).
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2000-01 Jury member of the Warren Dean Memorial Prize committee of the Conference on Latin American History (awarding a prize for the best book on the environmental history of Latin America published during the preceding two years)
1996-97 Member of the SSHRC doctoral fellowship committee for candidates in the social sciences currently studying outside Canada
1996-97 Member of the SSHRC doctoral fellowship review committee
2000-2001 Faculty Grants Program/Council on Research (COR) of the Academic Senate at UCLA ($3,000)
1999-2000 COR, New Assistant Professor Initiative ($2,000)
1999 Awarded the Warren Dean Memorial Prize of the Conference on Latin American History, for the best historical study on Brazil published in the preceding two years.
1998
Grant from the CRB [Charles Bronfman] Foundation in support of publication
costs at Stanford University Press (US$5,000)
1995-97 SSHRC
of Canada postdoctoral research fellowship, no. 756-95-0455 (C$55,968)
1994-97 SSHRC of Canada standard research grant, no. 410-94-0805: "A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland and Resource Appraisal in Southern South America", 1817-58." (C$26,000)
1983-1984 Holder of an SSHRC of Canada doctoral fellowship, no. 452-83-6901
1982 Awarded a research grant by the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto
1982 Awarded a research grant by the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1978-1983 Holder of a University of Toronto open fellowship for graduate studies (through five separate competitions)
1978-1979 Junior fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto
1976-1978 Michel scholar at the Queen's College, Oxford (scholarship awarded for first-class result in Honour Moderations)
Book
1998 Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press)
Articles
2000
“Social Networks and Innovation in the South American Meat Industry During the Pre-Refrigeration Era: Southern Brazil and Uruguay in Comparison.”Scripta Nova: Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales 69, no. 84 (2000): 1-10.Special journal number devoted to the II Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica - Innovación, Desarrollo y Medio Local: Dimensiones Sociales y Espaciales de la Innovación
1995
"Aimé Bonpland e a avaliação de recursos naturais em Santa Cruz, 1849-50" (Bonpland's Evaluation of Natural Resources at Santa Cruz, 1849-50). Estudos Ibero-Americanos (Porto Alegre) 21, 2 (1995): 63-79
"Aimé Bonpland and Merinomania in Southern South America." The Americas 51, 3 (1995): 301-23
1994
"Aimé Bonpland: un novateur optimiste dans le Sud-Brésil," trans. Philippe Jansen, in Découvertes et Explorateurs: Actes du Colloque International, Bordeaux, 12-14 Juin 1992, by Histoire au Présent and the Maison des Pays Ibériques, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1994), 133-42
"Sir Joseph Banks and Aimé Bonpland," in Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective, ed. R.E.R. Banks and others (Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1994), 201-204
1993
"Early Industrialization
in the South Atlantic: Political Influences on the Charqueadas of Rio Grande
do Sul before 1860." Journal of Historical Geography 19, 4 (1993): 399-411
Book Reviews
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers, by Richard W. Slatta, in the Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming)
2000
The
Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870,
by Samuel Amaral, in the Agricultural History Review 48, Part I (2000):
132-33
1999
Politics
and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South,
by Shawn Everett Kantor, in the Agricultural History Review 47, Part II
(1999): 237-38
1995
Frontier Development:
Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914,
by Jeremy Adelman, in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes
d'histoire30 (August/août 1995): 393-95
1983
Beiträge
zur Kulturgeographie der Neuen Welt: Ausgewählte Arbeiten von Gottfried
Pfeifer, ed. Gerd Kohlhepp, in the Journal of Historical Geography 9, 2
(1983): 215-16
Selected Work in Progress Designed for Publication
"Regional Keys to Brazilian Food Security: Assis Brasil and Agrarian Development." I expect to submit this MS. to the Journal of Latin American Studies
"A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland and Resource Appraisal in Southern South America." As with my earlier work, I shall seek publication of this book manuscript when complete with a university press, probably beginning with Cambridge's environmental history or historical geography research monograph series
PAPERS READ TO PROFESSIONAL GROUPS
2000
“Social
Networks and Innovation in the South American Meat Industry During the
Pre-Refrigeration Era: Southern Brazil and Uruguay in Comparison.” II Coloquio
Internacional de Geocrítica, Innovación, Desarrollo y Medio
Local: Dimensiones sociales y espaciales de la innovación, Barcelona,
24-26 May 2000
“La evolución ganadera en el Sur de Brasil y La Plata: Estudio comparado. ”Invited Seminar, Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 23 May 2000
“¿Bonpland a la sombra de Humboldt? ”Invited Joint Presentation with Prof. Josefina Gómez-Mendoza to mark the Bicentenary of the Journey of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland to the Americas, 1799-1804, Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, 22 May 2000
“Science in a Periphery: Aimé Bonpland and Brazil.”UCLA Brazilian Studies Discussion Series (“brown bag” colloquium), 9 February 2000
1999
“Bonpland
and Humboldt after 1817: Cooperation and Points of Friction in a Scientific
Partnership.”Invited Paper at the International Conference, Alexander von
Humboldt y la ciencia americana. Bicentenario. Mexico City, 15-19 August
1999
“Bonpland, Humboldt and South America: The Anatomy of a Scientific Partnership.”Invited Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 3 March 1999
“Bonpland, Humboldt and South America: The Anatomy of a Scientific Partnership.”Invited Seminar, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 12 February 1999
“Issues of Economy and Environment: Brazil’s Development Strategies for the Amazon Basin.”Invited Lecture, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 11 February 1999
1998
"Bonpland,
Humboldt and South America: The Anatomy of a Scientific Partnership."Paper
delivered at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Boston, Mass., 25-29 March 1998
1996
"Science
in a Periphery: Aimé Bonpland and Brazil."Eastern Historical Geography
Association 1996 Meeting, Erindale Campus, University of Toronto, October
17-20, 1996
"Europeanisation on the Grasslands of Southern Brazil: Selective Livestock Breeding, 1870-1920." Brazilian Studies Association, Third Conference, King's College, Cambridge, 7-10 September 1996
"Bonpland e o Brasil."XVI Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Histórica [SBPH], Curitiba, Paraná, 23-26 July 1996
1994
"Innovations
de l'élevage dans les périphéries de la Pampa (1800-1850):
Aimé Bonpland et la merinomanía."Invited seminar, CREDAL,
Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université
de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, 9 December 1994
"Ranch Modernization on a Pampa Periphery: the Campanha of Southern Brazil, 1870-1900."Paper read by invitation in the session Nineteenth-Century South American Ranching Frontiers at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Calgary, Alberta, 12-14 June 1994
"Innovations in the South American Meat Trade, 1850-1880."Paper delivered at Geographies of Food, a five-paper session I co-organized for the 90th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 29 March-2 April 1994
"Modernization on a Pampa Periphery: the Campanha of Southern Brazil. "Seminar delivered by invitation, Department of Geography, Boston University, 16 February 1994
"The Incorporation of Peripheries in Brazilian Development."Invited lecture, Department of International Relations, Boston University, 17 February 1994
1993
"The
Historical Geography of Slavery in the Ranching Economy of Rio Grande do
Sul." Seminar given by invitation, Department of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier
University, 17 June 1993
"Informal Empire and South American Development: Some Evidence from Montevideo at Mid-nineteenth century." Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, Ontario, 1 June 1993
"Banks and Aimé Bonpland, Botany and Merinos: An Example of Anglo-French Scientific Co-operation in the Napoleonic Era." Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective. An International 250th Anniversary Commemorative Conference, Royal Society, London, 22-23 April 1993
1992
"Sheep
and Development on the South American Grasslands During the First Half
of the Nineteenth Century."Invited graduate seminar, Department of Geography,
Queen's University, Kingston, 6 November 1992
"A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland and Resource Development in South America, 1817-58."Paper read at the Eighth International Historical Geography Conference, Vancouver, 16-23 August 1992
"Slavery and the Ranching Economy of Rio Grande do Sul During the Nineteenth Century." Geographisches Institut, Forschungsschwerpunkt Lateinamerika, University of Tübingen, Germany, 25 June 1992
"An Optimistic Innovator: Aimé Bonpland in Southern Brazil."Découvertes et Explorateurs: Colloque Historique International, Bordeaux, France, 12-14 June 1992
1991
"From
the Fortunes of War to the Problems of Peace: Forces for Change in the
Salt-beef Slaughtering Plants of Southern Brazil, 1835-62."Paper delivered
at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Kingston,
Ontario, 7 June 1991. I also chaired this session on South American development
problems.
1988
"Who
was the Gaúcho?" Paper delivered to the Humanities Association of
Canada, Sackville, New Brunswick branch, 13 January 1988
1987
"The
Sense of Regionalism in the Ranching Economy of Rio Grande do Sul During
the Middle of the Nineteenth Century." Paper read by invitation at the
annual meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies,
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, 2-4 April 1987
2000 Session chair, Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia), UCLA, 15-16 April 2000
1998 Invited commentator for the session “Identity and Conflict on the Platine Periphery: Alternative Roads to Nationhood in Paraguay and Uruguay,” Chile/Río de la Plata Committee, Conference of Latin American History, in the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, 8-11 January 1998
2000World Development (1)
1999Journal of Historical Geography (1), Environmental History (1)
1996 Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (1997) (1), Historical Geography (1)
1994 The Canadian
Geographer (1), Journal of Historical Geography (1)
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University
1999-2000 ISOP, Vice Provost’s Working Group on Brazil Studies; Faculty Advisory Committee, Latin American Center
Department of
Geography
1999-2000 Colloquium
Committee; Undergraduate Affairs Committee, January-June 2000; Ad Hoc Committee,
Promotion to Full Professor: David Rigby
2000-2001 Colloquium
Committee (Chair); Ad Hoc Committees, Promotion to Full Professor: Cindy
Fan, Merit to Professor VII: John Agnew
Ph.D. Committees
UCLA: Wendy Jepson, Derrick Hindery
McGill University: Gisela Frias, Rosalyn Trigger
American Association of Geographers (including the historical geography and Latin America specialty groups) [AAG]
American Historical Association [AHA]
Brazilian Studies Association [BRASA]
Canadian Association
of Geographers [CAG]
Conference of
Latin Americanist Geographers [CLAG]
Conference on Latin American History [CLAH]
Latin American Studies Association [LASA]
Sociedade Brasileira
de Pesquisa Histórica [SBPH]
Last revised 16 October 2000
