Project Team

Lead Investigators:

  • Farès el-Dahdah, Professor of the Humanities, School of Humanities, Rice University

  • Alida C. Metcalf, Professor of History, School of Humanities, Rice University

Partners:

  • Verena Andreatta, Secretary of Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Housing, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro

  • Maria Helena Röhe Salomon, Architect in Territorial Planning, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro

Cartographer:

​Project Managers:

  • Bruno de Castro Sousa, GIS Researcher, Humanities Research Center, Rice University

Consultants:

  • Jean Aroom, GIS Support Specialist, Fondren Library, Rice University

  • Erik Engquist, Director, Center for Research Computing, Rice University

  • Monica Rivero, Digital Curation Coordinator, Fondren Library, Rice University

Technical Support:

  • Office of Information Technology, Rice University

  • LJA Engineering, Inc., Houston TX

Visiting Scholars

-Keila Grinberg, Professora Titular, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), February 2020

  • Topic: Mapping the slave markets in Rio de Janeiro Story Map

-Mônica Lima e Souza, Professora Associada, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), February 2020

  • Topic: Mapping the routes of a runaway slave in Rio de Janeiro Story Map

-Mary Karasch, Professor Emeritus, Oakland University, May 2017 and March 2018.

  • Topic: “Rio de Janeiro: A Colonial City until 1850.”

-Maria Helena Röhe Salomon, Gerente de Pesquisa Urbanística na Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, November 2017.

  • Topic: Favelas, Reservoirs, and the Doxiadis Plan for Rio de Janeiro.”

-Segio Burgi, Coordenador, Coordenadoria de Fotografia Instituto Moreira Salles, March 2017
-Bruno Buccalon, Assistente Técnico, Coordenadoria de Fotografia, Instituto Moreira Salles, March 2017

  • Topic: Database Integration

-Igor Ferreira, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História ComparadaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, April 2018.

  • Topic: “Nineteenth-century Schools in Rio de Janeiro.”

-Antonio Carlos Higino da Silva, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História ComparadaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, April 2018.

  • Topic: “André Reboucas’ Plan for the Dom Pedro II Docks.”