Background
Needell was born on December 24, 1951 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Burton Peter Needell and Novella Cecilia Belden.
Berkeley, California, United States
Needell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Needell earned his Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1978.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, California, United States
Jeffrey was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Stanford University in 1982.
1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, Oregon, United States
Needell worked at the University of Oregon from 1982 to 1985.
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Needell has been working at the University of Florida since 1987.
(This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted Euro...)
This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionally based on African slavery.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804753695/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultu...)
This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521126010/?tag=2022091-20
2010
Needell was born on December 24, 1951 in New York City, New York, United States; the son of Burton Peter Needell and Novella Cecilia Belden.
Needell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Four years later he earned his Master of Arts degree from Yale University. Also in 1982, Jeffrey was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Stanford University.
Needell began his career as an assistant professor of the Department of History at the University of Oregon in 1982. Three years later he took a position of an administrator in the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Then in 1987, Jeffrey became an assistant professor and an associate professor of the Department of History in 1990 at the University of Florida. Nowadays he is a professor at the same university.
In addition, Needell was a visiting professor of history at Catholic University of America, Royal University of Leiden and Federal Fluminense University. He has published more than thirty articles and anthology chapters on urban cultural history, intellectual history, political history and on his current research interests, including the Brazilian monarchy and slavery, Brazilian abolitionism, Afro-Brazilian political mobilization in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro and the movement for Brazilian abolition.
(This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted Euro...)
2006(This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultu...)
2010( )
2015Needell is a member of Brazilian Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association and American History Association.
On September 5, 1980 Jeffrey Needell married Fatima Lima Maia de Maia. They have three children.