Dr. Kuznesof is currently researching two books. One is on the development of a cultural concept of citizenship in Brazil in the nineteenth century, and how that relates to slavery, race and gender. The second is a volume on the History of Global Childhood from 1750 to the present (on contract with Greenwood Press).

Colonial Latin American social and family history, colonial Brazil, slavery

Invited article “The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the 21st Century” for special issue of Journal of Social History on “Globalization and Childhood” edited by Peter Stearns, June 2005.

"The History of Childhood in Latin America " for the Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society; Volume II: 530-532. New York , 2004.

"Legal and Religious Rights and Responsibilities of Brazilian Childhood: A History (1500-1937)": Revista População e Família: Familia Ibero-Americana (University of Sao Paulo , Centro de Estudos de Demografia Historica de America Latina ), Vol: 5: 255-272 (2003).

History of Brazil, Colonial Latin America, Economic History of Latin America, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Latin America

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (1976)