Zephyr Frank
Zephyr Frank
Professor of Latin American History
Field:
Latin America
Ph.D Illinois 1999
M.A. UCLA 1993
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.
Selected Publications & Projects
Zephyr Frank, Richard White
The Spatial History Project at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of students, staff, and scholars to engage in creative...
Selected Journals & Book Chapters
Zephyr Frank
Maria João Ferreira Santos, James Thorne, Jon Christensen
The last century has seen large changes in land-use and land-cover. We reconstructed the history of conservation land acquisition (where, when, how...
Zephyr Frank
Ran Abramitzky, Aprajit Mahajan
We construct an individual-level data set of partnership contracts in late-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro to study the determinants of contract...
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Research Activity
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)
Forthcoming Publications
Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century, Stanford University Press, forthcoming January 2016.
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Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (http://cesta.stanford.edu)
Director, Program on Urban Studies (https://urbanstudies.stanford.edu)
