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Joseph L Love

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Lemann Inst. of Brazilian Sts.
300 Intl. Studies Bldg.
910 S Fifth
M/C 481
Champaign, IL 61820
Professor Emeritus

Biography

Joseph Love is professor emeritus of history at the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He formerly directed the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the university.  Previous to that he was director of the Center for Latin American  and Caribbean Studies.

Research Interests

His research interests include Brazilian history and the history of economic ideas in Latin America.

Education

A.B., Harvard, 1960 (economics)
M.A., Stanford, 1963 (history)
Ph.D, Columbia, 1967 (history)

Awards and Honors

Commendation of "Distinction" on dissertation at Columbia University, 1967

Conference Prize, CLAH (1971) for article, "Political Participation"

Honorable mention (2d place) for Bolton Prize (1972) for Rio Grande do Sul

Prize for best paper in Latin American history, Southwest Social Science Assn. (1977), fpr "Against the Tide: Liberal Politics in Sao Paulo, 1930-1937

Cited on UIUC list of "excellent teachers"

Grant from UIUC program for Faculty Study in a Second Discipline, fall, 1978, and fall, 1985

Research Associate, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, Mar.-Aug., 1982

Undergraduate Instructional Award, UIUC, Summer 1983

Mobil Award for outstanding Instructional Project

Visiting Fellow, Institudo de Estudos Avancados (Inst. for Advanced Study), U. de Sao Paulo, 1989-90

Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC, 1993 (with reseach funds)

Named "Distinguished Brazilian Studies Scholar" by Brazilian Embassy, Washington, D.C., 2002

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2004-05, 2008-2009

Visiting Scholar, University of Leuven (Louvain), April-May 2004 (Leuven-UIUC exchange)

Foreign Area Fellowship (Ford)

Visiting Fellow, Instituto Ortega y Gasset, and Visiting Associate, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, 1995-96

Listed in Who's Who in America,1995-

Senior University Scholar, UIUC, 1993 (with research funds)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Fulbright-Hays Research Grants (twice)

SSRC Fellowship (twice), University of Illinois

NEH Senior Research Fellowship (twice)

Hewlett Fellowship

IREX Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Delivered annual UIUC Humanities Lecture, Sept., 2000: “Ideas and Institutions: A View from the Periphery.”

Named one of 50 scholars since 1913 in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Gallery of Excellence for “positioning LAS as a leader in Brazilian studies,” 2014.

Courses Taught

Surveys of colonial and national periods of Latin American history; history of Brazil; history of Mexico; slavery and race relations in Latin America; history of Spain and Portugal; social science approaches to Latin American issues; emergence of the Third World; Four Latin American ideas: structuralism, dependency, liberation theology, and pedagogy of the oppressed; modern Cuban history; graduate seminar and problems courses; "Economic Growth, the State, and Ideology in Latin America: 1880-1980" (NEH Seminar for College Teachers, 1984); undergraduate seminars for U. of Illinois students in Mexico City (the Mexican Revolution), June, 1995, Havana, Cuba (Cuba and the United States), June, 2000, and Madrid, Spain (Spanish Civil War), June 2002; graduate courses on economic history of the world since 1945 (2004); recent historiography of Brazil (2006, 2008).

Additional Campus Affiliations

Center for Global Studies
HISTORY; Emeritus - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Highlighted Publications

BOOKS

The Revolt of the Whip. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Translated as Făurirea Lumii a Treia: Teorii şi Teoreticieni ai Subdezvoltării în Romania şi Brazilia. Bucharest: Editura Univers, 2002.

Translated as A Construção do Terceiro Mundo: Teorizando o Subdesenvolvimento na Romênia e no Brasil. Rio de Janero: Editora Paz e Terra, 1998.

Crafting the Third World: Theorizing, Underdevelopement in Rumania and Brazil. Stanford, California: Stanford U. Press, 1996.

Translated as A Locomotiva: São Paulo na Federação Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Paz e Terra, 1982.

São Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937. Stanford, California: Stanford U. Press, 1980.

Translated as O Regionalismo Gaúcho e as Origens da Revolução de 1930. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1975.

Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, 1882-1930. Stanford, California: Stanford U. Press, 1971.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"The Brazilian Federal State in the First Republic (1889-1930): Did Regime Change Make a Difference?” to be published in Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro." Paper Leviathans? Latin American State Formation, 1830-1930, 2012.

"Ideias e ideologias econômicas na América Latina, c. 1930-c.1990." Historia da America Latina, vol. 8, 2011, p. 161-242; 679-685.

"The Latin American Contribution to Center-Periphery Perspectives: History and Prospect." Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization: Essays in Honor of Ivan T. Berend, 2011, p. 15-42.

"Late Agrarianism in Brazil: Kautsky and Chayanov in the 1970s and 1980s." Bauerngesellschaften auf dem Weg in die Moderne: Agrarismus in Ostmitteleuropa 1880 bis 1960, 2010, p. 257-274.

"Latin America, UNCTAD, and the Postwar Trading System." Economic Development in Latin America: Essays in Honor of Werner Baer, 2010, p. 22-33.

"The Roots of Unequal Exchange: Mihail Manoilescu and the Debate of the 1930s." Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today, 2009, p. 103-118.

Love, Joseph L. "A Reversal in the Historical Role of Tariffs in Economic Growth? The Cases of Brazil and Portugal." Estudos Econômicos, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, p. 461-492.

"A Reversal in the Historical Role of Tariffs in Economic Growth? The Cases of Brazil and Portugal." Estudos Econômicos, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, p. 461-492.

"Liberalism: Overview." The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Edited by Peter N. Stearns, vol. 4, 2008, p. 499-504.

"The Lula Government in Historical Perspective." Brazil under Lula, 2008, p. 305-315.

Hentschke, Jens, and Joseph Love. "Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives." Journal of Latin American Studies, 2008, p. 4.

"Elites regionais." Por outra história das elites, 2006, p. 77-97.

"Flux and Reflux: Interwar and Postwar Structuralist Theories of Development in Romania and Latin America." History and Culture of Economic Nationalism in East Central Europe, 2006, p. 71-86.

"Marinheiros negros em águas internacionais [Marinheiros negros em águas internacionais]." Revista de História da Biblioteca Nacional, vol1, no. 9, 2006, p. 30-32.

"Prebisch en la UNCTAD."  Raúl Prebisch: Power, Principle and The Ethics of Development, 2006, p. 37-63.

"Prebisch en la UNCTAD."  Raúl Prebisch: El poder, los principios y la ética del desarrollo, 2006, p. 39-65.

"Institutional Foundations of Economic Ideas in Latin America, 1914-1950." Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins, Embedding and Evolution, 2005, p. 142-156.

"O sistema de Castilhos 100 anos depois: A perspectiva de um comparativista." Júlio de Castilhos e o paradoxo republicano, 2005, p. 71-84.

Summerhill, William, and Joseph Love. "Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913." Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol. 75, 2005, p. 195-197.

"The Rise and Decline of Economic Structuralism in Latin America: New Dimensions." Latin American Research Review, vol. 40, no. 3, 2005, p. 100-125.

"The Rise and Fall of Structuralism." Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins, Embedding and Evolution, 2005, p. 157-181.

"Structuralism and Dependency in Peripheral Europe: Latin American Ideas in Spain and Portugal." Latin American Research Review, vol. 39, no. 2, 2004, p. 114-139.

"Acotaciones a la influencia de las ideas económicas de Mihail Manoilescu en Portugal y España." Empresas Políticas, vol. 2, no. 3, 2003, p. 101-105.

"Entrevista com Joseph L. Love." Estudos Históricos, vol32, 2003, p. 165-177.

Love, Joseph, and Judy Bieber. "Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889." AHR, 2003, p. 1497-1498.

"Flux şi Reflux: Teoriile Structuraliste ale Dezvoltării din Perioada Interbelică şi Cea Postbelică în România şi America Latină." Oeconomica, volXI, no. 3, 2002, p. 269-283.

"Mihail Manoilescu în Peninsula Iberică şi în America Latină." Oeconomică, volXI, no. 2, 2002, p. 273-287.

"Raúl Prebisch on CEPAL’s Achievements and Deficiencies: An Unpublished Interview." CEPAL Review, vol. 41, no. 164, 2002, p. 531-553.

"Resisting Liberalism: Theorizing Backwardness and Development in Rumania before 1914." Economic Thought and Policy in Less Developed Europe: The Nineteenth Century, 2002, p. 105-128.

"CEPAL’s Achievements and Deficiencies: An Unpublished Interview." CEPAL Review, no. 75, 2001, p. 9-22.

"Entrevista inédita a Prebisch: Logros y deficiencias de la CEPAL." Revista de la CEPAL, vol. 75, 2001, p. 9-23.

"Furtado e o estruturalismo” in Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and José Márcio Rego." A grande esperança em Celso Furtado, vol. 34, 2001, p. 221-252.

"A república brasileira: Federalismo e regionalismo, 1889-1937." A viagem incompleta: A experiência brasileira 1500-2000, vol. 2, 2000, p. 121-160.

"Regionalism and Federalism in Brazil, 1889-1937." Percursos da Memória: Construções do Imaginário Nacional, 2000, p. 233-254.

"Furtado, las ciencias sociales y la historia." Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México, vol. 17, no. 49, 1999, p. 3-21.

"História da vida privada no Brasil, 4: Contrastes da intimidade contemporánea [History of Private Life in Brazil : Contrasts of Contemporary Intimacy]." Folha de S. Paulo, 1999, p. 1.

"Las fuentes del estructuralismo latinoamericano." Prebisch y Furtado: El estruc-turalismo latinoamericano, 1999, p. 17-32.

"Latin America’s Path from Backwardness to Development." Perspectives on Development: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, 1999, p. 138-164.

"Dependency Theories in Rumania before 1945." Uneven Development in Europe, 1918-1939, 1998, p. 85-106.

"Furtado, Social Science, and Historiography." Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History, 1998, p. 209-222; 293-299.

"Latin America’s Path from Backwardness to Development." Journal of North African Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1998, p. 138-164.

"Ideas and Action in Postwar Brazil." Macalester International, vol. 5, 1997, p. 3-38.

"Regionalism and Federalism in Brazil, 1889-1937." Politics, Society, and Democracy, 1997, p. 207-236.

"Economic Ideas and Ideologies in Latin America since 1930." Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth Century Latin America, 1996, p. 207-274; 371-377.

"Las fuentes del estructuralismo latinoamericano." Desarrollo Económico, vol. 36, no. 141, 1996, p. 391-402.

"Las raíces del retraso económico en Latinoamérica." Revista Paraguaya de Sociología, vol. 33, no. 95, 1996, p. 57-80.

"The Roots of Latin America's Backwardness." Rich Nations--Poor Nations: The Long-Run Perspective, 1996, p. 39-64.

"Economic Ideas and Ideologies in Latin America since 1930." Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 11, 1995, p. 873-878.

"A New Look at the International Intellectual Environment of the 1930s and 1940s." The Legacy of Raúl Prebisch, 1994, p. 55-62.

"Federalismo y regionalismo en Brasil, 1889-1937." Federalismos latinoamericanos: México/Brasil/Argentina, vol. 1, 1993, p. 180-223.

"Nueva visión del entorno intelectual internacional de las décadas de los años treinta y cuarenta." El legado de Raúl Prebisch, 1993, p. 59-66.

"Prebisch, Raúl." Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 1993, p. 741-742.

"Reflections on the Revolution of 1893." Pensar a Revolução Federalista, 1993, p. 15-18.

"The Origins of Dependency Analysis." Key Concepts in International Political Economy,, vol. 2, 1993, p. 181-206.

"Una Aproximación al Regionalismo." CERES Monografías, 1993, p. 36.

"A República Fez Alguma Diferença?" [Did the Republic Make a Difference?]." O Estado de S. Paulo,, 1991.

"Pinheiro Machado: Apogeu e Declínio." Revista do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, vol. 14, 1990, p. 59-79.

"Structural Change and Conceptual Response in Latin America and Romania, 1860-1950" Love and Jacobsen, 1990, p. 1-33.

"The Origins of Dependency Analysis." Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 1990, p. 143-168.

"Theorizing Underdevelopment in Latin America and Romania, 1860-1950" Estudos Avançados, vol. 4, no. 8, 1990, p. 62-95.

"Modeling Internal Colonialism: History and Prospect." World Development, vol. 17, no. 6, 1989, p. 905-922.

"Of Planters, Politics, and Development." Latin American Research Review, vol. 24, no. 3, 1989, p. 127-135.

"Regional Elites." Modern Brazil: Elites and Masses in Historical Perspective, 1989, p. 3-22.

"Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986): His Life and Ideas." Diario del Caribe, vol. 713, 1988, p. 9-12.

"Theorizing Underdevelopment in Latin America and Romania, 1860-1950." Review, vol. 11, no. 4, 1988, p. 453-496.

"Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986): Su vida y sus ideas." Comercio Exterior, vol. 37, no. 5, 1987, p. 361-365.

"Raúl Prebisch and the Origins of the Doctrine of Unequal Exchange." Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives, 1987, p. 78-100.

"Manoilescu, Prebisch, and Unequal Exchange." Rumanian Studies, vol. 5, 1986, p. 125-133.

"Rulers and Owners: A Brazilian Case Study in Comparative Perspective." Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 66, no. 4, 1986, p. 743-761.

"New Bibliographies on Brazilian History." Latin American Research Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 1985, p. 235-240.

"Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986): His Life and Ideas." Latin American and Caribbean Record, vol. V, 1985, p. A143-A150.

"A Revolução de 30 e o Regionalismo Gaúcho." Simpósio sobre a Revolução de 30, 1983, p. 59-83.

"Um Segmento da Elite Política Brasileira em Perspectiva Comparada." in A Revolução de 30: Seminário Internacional, 1982, p. 47-92.

"Raúl Prebisch and the Origins of the Doctrine of Unequal Exchange." Revista Mexicana de Sociología, vol. 42, no. 1, 1980, p. 375-405.

"Raúl Prebisch and the Origins of the Doctrine of Unequal Exchange." Latin American Research Review, vol. 15, no. 3, 1980, p. 45-72.

"Third World: A Response to Prof. Worsley." Third World Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 2, 1980, p. 315-317.

"Third World: A Response to Prof. Worsley." Why Third World?, vol. 7, 1980, p. 33-35.

"Centro-Periferia e Troca Desigual: Origens e Crescimento de uma Doutrina Econômica." Dados, vol. 19, 1978, p. 47-62.

"Autonomia e Interdependência: São Paulo e a Federação Brasileira, 1889-1937." História Geral da Civilização Brasileira, vol. 1, 1975, p. 53-76.

"Rio Grande do Sul como Fator de Instabilidade na República Velha." História Geral da Civilização Brasileira, vol. 1, 1975, p. 99-122.

"External Financing and Domestic Politics: The Case of São Paulo, Brazil, 1889-1937." Latin American Modernization Problems, 1973, p. 236-259.

"Utopianism in Latin American Cultures." Aware of Utopia, 1971, p. 117-134.

"Indice cronológico dos Papéis de Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros: 1909-1932." Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, 1970, p. 223-276.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Mexican-Americans in the United Staes: A Reader, 1970, p. 459-473.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Awakening Minorities: American Indians, Mexican American, Puerto Ricans, 1970, p. 105-122.

"Political Participation in Brazil, 1881-1969." Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 1970, p. 3-24.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Trans-action (later Society), vol. 6, no. 4, 1969, p. 35-41.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Social Progress: A Journal of Church and Society, vol. 59, no. 5, 1969, p. 30-35.

"Sources for the Latin American Student Movement." The Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 1, 1967, p. 215-226.

"Pôrto Alegre: [Historical] Research Opportunities." Brazil:Field Research Guide in the Social Sciences, 1966, p. 88-96.

"Retrospectiva do golpe." Caderno Cultura, 1964, p. 6.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

"Late Agrarianism in Brazil: Kautsky and Chayanov in the 1970s and 1980s." Bauerngesellschaften auf dem Weg in die Moderne: Agrarismus in ostmitteleuropa 1880 bis 1960, Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz, 2010, p. 257-274.

"Latin America, UNCTAD, and the Postwar Trading System." Economic Development in Latin America: Essays in Honor of Werner Baer, Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 22-33.

"The Roots of Unequal Exchange: Mihail Manoilescu and the Debate of the 1930's." Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today, London: Anthem Press, 2009, p. 103-118.

"Liberalism: Overview." The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 499-504.

"The Rise and Fall of Structuralism." Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins, Embedding and Evolution, Houndmills, UK: Palgrave 2005, p. 157-181.

"An Approach to Regionalism." New Approaches to Latin American History, Austin: Universtity of Texas Press, 1974, p. 137-155.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Pain and Promise: The Chicano Today, New York: Mentor, 1972, p. 217-286.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." Promises to Keep: A Portrayal of Non-whites in the United States, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972, p. 354-363.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." The Politics of Social Change: A Reader for the Seventies, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971, p. 286-296.

"La Raza: Mexican-Americans in Rebellion." The Politics of the Powerless, Cambridge: Winthrop, 1971, p. 221-231.

EDITED BOOKS

Baer, Werner, and Joseph Love. Brazil under Lula: Economy, Society, and Politics under the Worker-President. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Love, Joseph, and Werner Baer. Liberalization and its Consequences: A Comparative Perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000.

Love, Joseph L. Liberalization and its Consequences: A Comparative Perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000.

Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988.

Love, Joseph L. Quantitative Social Science Research on Latin America. Urbana, Illinois: U of Illinois Press, 1973.