About the Project
Led by two previous MEAP project leads, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal, this project team aims to digitize five collections related to the rural, labor, and environmental histories of the Brazilian countryside throughout the late 19th to the late 20th centuries. The archives include the historical archives of Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (FEENA), the farm collection of the Santa Gertrudes Plantation, the Arquivo Público e Histórico de Rio Claro stewardship collection (also under the Santa Gertrudes Plantation, the Casa Feltrin archive, and the Associação Trevisani nel Mondo archive. These collections reveal the local responses to Brazil’s insertion in the Second Wave of Globalization, as well as portray the networks between the coffee economy, the abolition of slavery, mass immigration, scientific and infrastructural progress, and impacts on the local environment.
Project Leads
Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, University of Tübingen
Thales Zamberlan Pereira, Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP-FGV)
Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal, DAAD-UCLA / Modern Endangered Archives Program
- Mariana de Aguiar Ferreira Muaze, the History Department of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Host Institution
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV, Brazil)
