Vitor Izecksohn
E-mail: vizecksohn@gmail.com
Professor of the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Doctor of History by the University of New Hampshire (2001). Researcher at CNPq and Our State Scientist (FAPERJ). He was a Professor at the History Institute (UFRJ). He did post-doctoral studies in the Department of History at Brown University (2007-2008). He was a visiting professor at Brown University (2011) and the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University (2018). Visiting researcher at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of Latin American History/New York Historical Society (2005), the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition/Yale University (2015), the John Carter Brown Library (2017) and the Max-Planck-Institut für europäishe Rechtgeschicht (2018). He is an associate researcher at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Studies the relations between federalism, republicanism and slavery in the Americas, with emphasis on comparative research on wars, slavery and nation-state building.
Produções bibliográficas selecionadas
- Estados Unidos: uma História. São Paulo: Contexto, 2021.
- Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Nova História Militar Brasileira (co-editado com Celso Castro e Hendrik Kraay). Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2004.
- The Wars of the 1860s and the Atlantic (Americas and Europe). In Oxford Enciclopedia of Latin American History, 2021.
- Reações populares ao recrutamento militar durante as grandes guerras dos anos 1860 nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil. In In Anuario IEHS 34(2), 2019, pp. 141-160.
- A Criação do Terceiro Corpo do Exército na província do Rio Grande do Sul: conflitos políticos resultantes da administração militar nos anos críticos da Guerra do Paraguai (1866-1867). (em coautoria com Miquéias Mugge). In Revista Brasileira de História, 36(73)2016.
- O Recrutamento de Negros nas Tropas da União durante a Guerra Civil Americana. In Afro-Ásia, 55 (2016), pp. 177-212.
- Escravidão, Federalismo e Democracia: a luta pelo controle do Estado Nacional norte-americano antes da Secessão. In Topoi, Março de 2003, pp. 47-81.