Dr. Eyal Weinberg
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin听
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Modern Latin America
- Brazil
- Science and Medicine
- Cold War Politics
Email:听eweinberg@fau.edu听听
Office Phone: 561-297-3849
Eyal Weinberg is a historian of modern Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. His research explores histories of medicine, health, political violence, and human rights during the Cold War period. Before joining 麻豆精品视频, Weinberg was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Weinberg鈥檚 book project, Tending to the Body Politic: Doctors, Military Repression, and Transitional Justice in Brazil (1961-1988), explores the contested realms of professional medicine, bioethics, and political repression in military and post-authoritarian Brazil. The manuscript is based on his dissertation, which was recognized with an honorable mention for best dissertation in the humanities by the Latin American Studies Association鈥揃razil Section.听
Weinberg鈥檚 research has appeared in various academic and public history venues, among them The Americas, International Labor and Working-Class History, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am茅rica Latina e el Caribe, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. 听Weinberg is also the guest editor of a special issue on the new histories of health in modern Latin America, published in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am茅rica Latina in 2024.听
At FAU, Weinberg teaches classes on Latin America鈥檚 modern period as well as advanced courses on the histories of health and medicine in Latin America and the Cold War in Latin America. He also teaches the broad History of Civilizations survey. 听
Courses
Undergraduate Courses
- Modern Latin America
- Latin American Independence
- Dictatorships and Democracies in Latin America
- Health and Disease in Latin America
- History of Civilization
Graduate Courses
- Cold War in Latin America
- Health in Latin America