William Summerhill is Professor of History, and Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair in Latin American Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A historian of Brazil, his research interests include the political economy of sovereign debt, credit markets, schooling and human capital, railroads and infrastructure, and inequality. He is the author of Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (Yale University Press, 2015), and Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 (Stanford University Press, 2003).
Summerhill has been a visiting professor at Insper, Universidade de São Paulo (FEA/USP), and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EPGE-FGV), a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil on several occasions. He is currently completing a book on slave traders, bankers, and the fiscal origins of state building in Brazil after independence.
Summerhill has been a visiting professor at Insper, Universidade de São Paulo (FEA/USP), and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EPGE-FGV), a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil on several occasions. He is currently completing a book on slave traders, bankers, and the fiscal origins of state building in Brazil after independence.
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