Zephyr Frank is Professor of History and the Director of the Program on Urban Studies. He is also the founding Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). His research interests focus on Brazilian social and cultural history, the study of wealth and inequality, and the digital humanities.
Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis [http://cesta.stanford.edu]
Director, Spatial History Project
*Principal investigator (with Richard White and Franco Moretti) for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation project: Crowdsourcing for Humanities Research (2012-15)
*Principal investigator for the Wallenberg Foundation project: Media Places (2011-15, joint with Umeå University)
*Principal investigator (with Jonathan Rodden and Clayton Nall) for REVS project: Interdisciplinary Studies in Transportation, Mobility, and Political Change (2014-15)
Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century, Stanford University Press, forthcoming January 2016.