Presentation
Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project
Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power
Part 4: Frank demonstrates the possibilities of HGIS using visualizations from his Terrain of History project
About the Author
Zephyr Frank is associate professor of Latin American History at Stanford University, the director of the Spatial History Project, and the principal investigator on the Terrain of History project. He teaches modern Brazilian history, with an emphasis on urban life, economic development, and cultural change in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro and co-editor of From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy.