Eve Buckley
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Eve Buckley studies the history of science, medicine, health and environment in twentieth-century Latin America, particularly Brazil. She is interested in the use of science and technology to address problems of poverty and underdevelopment in postcolonial societies. Her book Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Humanities Book Prize by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. The book also received Honorable Mention, Warren Dean prize, Conference on Latin American History in 2018. This work examines development projects in Northeast Brazil’s hinterland drought zone, focusing on dam construction, the establishment of irrigated smallholder colonies, and public health surveys. Prof. Buckley’s current research centers on the career and influence of Brazilian physician Josué de Castro in relation to early Cold War debates about overpopulation. This new book is provisionally entitled Hunger Politics in the Early Cold War: Brazilian Critiques of Overpopulation Orthodoxy. For this project Prof. Buckley has received fellowship support from the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Princeton University Library, the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Philadelphia), and a General University Research grant from UD. Prof. Buckley received her BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
