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Marc Adam Hertzman is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on the history of Brazil and Latin America, with a special interest in race, culture, slavery, labor, and gender. His work centers on the 19th and 20th centuries, and his recent project delves into the colonial era, exploring the cultural, spiritual, physical, and monetary inheritances of Palmares, the largest and longest-standing fugitive slave settlement in history, led by the iconic figure Zumbi. Hertzman's upcoming book, 'Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, Afterlives of Zumbi', is set to be published in 2024 as part of Duke University Press's Radical Perspectives Series. His previous works include 'Making Samba: New History of Race and Music in Brazil', published in 2013, which received an Honorable Mention for the Bryce Wood Book Prize from the Latin American Studies Association and the Woody Guthrie Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. In 2020, he published a book on Gilberto Gil's album 'Refazenda' as part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Series. Hertzman's scholarly contributions have appeared in numerous respected journals such as the American Historical Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review. He values engaged scholarship and actively contributes to public discourse through various media outlets, including New York Magazine and Al-Jazeera.
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