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GRAY FIELDING KIDD

History Department tel: (919)-797-4729

Duke University email: http://gray.kidd@duke.edu
Box 90719 web: http://scholars.duke.edu/person/kidd
Durham, NC 27708-0719

EDUCATION
2014-Present Duke University Durham, NC
Ph.D. in History (Modern Latin America)
Dissertation: Retreat from the Big House? Sociability, Race, & the Politics of
Culture in Recife, 1958-1987 (Advisor: John D. French)
Major Field: Modern Brazilian and Latin American History (French)
Minor Field: Colonial Latin American History (Sigal)
Outside Field: The Politics of Cultural & Intellectual Production (Furtado)
*Portfolio and prospectus defense scheduled for April 14, 2017.

2008-2014 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA

M.A. in Global History, May 2014
B.A. Honors, Magna cum laude, May 2012

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2017-2018 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Dissertation Research. Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University.
2017 Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Fellowship. Duke Graduate School.
2016 Tinker Field Research Grant, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.
2016 Mellon Foundation Conference Travel Grant, Duke CLACS
2015-2016 Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), Brazilian Portuguese
2015 Summer FLAS, Pontifical Catholic University of So Paulo (PUC-SP)
2015 Brazil Initiation Scholarship for Summer Research, Brazilian Studies Association
2014-2015 Graduate Fellowship, Duke CLACS
2014-2020 Duke History Department Graduate Fellowship
2012-2014 James Madison University History Department Graduate Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2016-2017 Co-Instructor for Undergraduate Research Seminar, The Cost of Opportunity?
Higher Education and Social Mobility in the Baixada Fluminense, Bass
Connections and the Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Duke University.
2016 Graduate Student Field Leader for Bass Connections and Global Brazil
Humanities Lab Project, The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education and Social
Mobility in the Baixada Fluminense, Duke University and the Instituto
Multidisciplinar da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (IM/UFRRJ).
2015-2017 Graduate Student Coordinator, Latin American Intersectionalities Working
Group, Consortium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke and UNC-
Chapel Hill.
2014-2016 Graduate Student Coordinator, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, John Hope
Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke U.

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2014 Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Survey Global Brazil, Duke History
Department.
2013 Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Survey in World History (to the Renaissance),
James Madison University History Department.
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant and Recitation Section Leader for Undergraduate Survey in U.S.
History, James Madison University History Department.
2012-2014 Editorial Board, Madison Historical Review, James Madison University History
Department.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
2017 Organizing Committee, Duke-UFRRJ Baixada Project Conference, Duke Global
Brazil Humanities Lab and the Instituto Multidisciplinar da Universidade Federal
Rural do Rio de Janeiro (IM/UFRRJ). Durham, NC. March 27, 2017.
2016 Organizing Committee, Second Annual Global Brazil Conference, Duke Global
Brazil Humanities Lab and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Durham, NC.
March 4, 2016.
2016 Organizing Committee, History Graduate Student Conference, Where I Fare
Well, there is my Home: Migration, Past and Present. Durham, NC. March 4, 2016.
2015 Organizing Committee, First Annual Global Brazil Conference, Duke Global
Brazil Humanities Lab and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Duke. March
26-28, 2015.
2013-2014 Graduate Assistant for Annual Culture and Community Teacher and Student
Workshop Series. James Madison University.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. Roundtable participant for Micro Meets Macro: The Challenges of Scale in Writing History
with Lara Putnam. Humanities Futures of the Franklin Humanities Institute. Durham, NC.
March 29, 2017.
2. Bringing Africa into the Public School Classroom: Laudable Mandate, Limited Results.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American
Studies (SECOLAS). Chapel Hill, NC. March 25, 2017.
3. Death in an American Venice: Listening to the Church in Recife, Pernambuco After AI-5.
Paper presented on a panel of graduate students entitled Beyond the Public Image: Socio-
Political Practices in Cold War Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil at the annual meeting of the
SECOLAS. Chapel Hill, NC. March 25, 2017.
4. Giving Gold in Exchange for Glass: Class, Color, and Extractive Intimacy Among Men in
Recife, Pernambuco, 1960. Paper presented at the XIII Congress of the Brazilian Studies
Association (BRASA) held at Brown University. Providence, RI. April 3, 2016.
5. The Walls Have Ears: Wiretapping the Archbishop(ric) of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, 1969.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of SECOLAS. Cartagena, Colombia. March 31-April
3, 2016.
6. From Statement of Autonomy to Elite Vendetta: New Insights on Pernambucos Peddlers
War, 1710-11. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Duke-UNC Consortium in
Latin American Studies. Chapel Hill, NC. February 13, 2016.
7. In the Shadows of Sugar: The Zona da Mata Pernambucana. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American Studies. Durham, NC.
February 13, 2015.

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8. From Violence to Empowerment: The Case of Brazilian Millenarianism. Paper presented

at Violence: Empowerment or Self-Destruction, the annual conference of the James
Madison University Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures held.
Harrisonburg, VA. April 3-4, 2014.
9. Rethinking the Millenarian Other: Brazils Canudos War. Paper presented at the Second
Annual Graduate Student Conference on the Global Gulf held at Tulane University. New
Orleans, LA. February 21-23, 2014.
10. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery: A Brief Comparative History of Emancipation in
Brazil and the United States. Paper presented at Emancipation: The Struggle for Equality
and Freedom, the annual conference of the James Madison University Department of
Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Harrisonburg, VA. March 21-22, 2014.
11. Gender, Agency, and the African Diaspora in Brazil: From Historical and Literary Texts to
Cac Dieguess Quilombo Film. Paper presented at Diasporas Changing the World, the
annual conference of the James Madison University Department of Foreign Languages,
Literatures and Cultures. Harrisonburg, VA. March 22-23, 2012.
12. Divisive Good Neighbor Film: Orson Welles and Its All True. Paper presented at the
Virginia Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference held at Lynchburg College. Lynchburg, VA.
February 2012. Paper awarded first place in world history category.

LANGUAGES
Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Proficient

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Council for Latin American History of the American Historical Association
Brazilian Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Southeast Council of Latin American Studies
Phi Beta Kappa

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