Department News - 2005

Dr. Lydia Garner Elected Member of Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro

Dr. Lydia Magalhaes Garner has been elected into membership in Brazil's Geographical and Historical Institute (the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro), one of the oldest intellectual institutions in Brazil.  The Institute was created in Rio in 1838 and very early gained support and sponsorship from Emperor Pedro II. The journal for the Institute is one of the longest running in Brazil and was critical in establishing an independent historiographical tradition in Brazil. Its members today include some of the preeminent historians of Brazil. Dr. Garner, who joined the history faculty at Texas State in 1992, is recognized as an authority on the formation of modern Brazil under the rule of Dom Pedro II.

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