My name is Yuri Gama and I am a History Ph.D. candidate at UMass Amherst.
Fields: Modern Latin America, Modern Brazil, Urban History
Extended Fields: Public and Digital Humanities, Global History, Modern U.S. History
Objective of this blog: Documenting the class History 493B/664B: Digital History at University of Massachusetts Amherst with professor Jon Olsen.
Research: My dissertation investigates the construction of state-sponsored housing between 1940 and 1986 in Northeast Brazil. In light of the post-1930 urbanization efforts, my research discusses ideas of modernization and politics presenting the relation between the United States and Brazil, developmental regional differences, and the transnational character of mass housing in Latin America.