Eve Buckley

Eve Buckley is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research focuses on the history of science, medicine, health, and environment in twentieth-century Latin America, particularly Brazil. She examines how science and technology addressed poverty and underdevelopment in postcolonial societies.

• Education:
• BA, University of Chicago
• MA and PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Research Interests:
• Technocrats and development projects in Northeast Brazil
• Cold War debates on overpopulation
• Role of physician Josué de Castro in hunger politics
• Awards & Fellowships:
• 2018 Humanities Book Prize
• Warren Dean Prize Honorable Mention
• Fellowships from Rockefeller Archive Center, Princeton University Library, Consortium for the History of Science, and UD’s General University Research grant
• Current Projects:
• Book: Hunger Politics in the Early Cold War: Brazilian Critiques of Overpopulation Orthodoxy