William Summerhill

Professor
Department: Department of History
wrs@history.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Brazil

William Summerhill is a historian of Brazil. His research interests include sovereign debt, credit markets, schooling and human capital, railroads and infrastructure, and inequality. He is the author of Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (Yale University Press, 2015), and Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 (Stanford University Press, 2003) [Brazilian edition, Trilhos do Desenvolvimento: as ferrovias no crescimento da economia brasileira (São Paulo: 2018)].

Summerhill has held visiting appointments at Insper, Universidade de São Paulo (FEA/USP), and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He has been a visiting researcher at the Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EPGE-FGV), and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.