Zephyr Frank
Director, Spatial History Project
Zephyr Frank is Professor of History and the Director of the Program on Urban Studies. He is also the founding Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). His research interests focus on Brazilian social and cultural history, the study of wealth and inequality, and the digital humanities.
Eunice Nodari
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis
Eunice Nodari is Titular Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis - UFSC – Brazil, and Visiting Scholar at CESTA – August 2015 to February 2016 (fellowship from CNPq- Brazil). For more than 15 years, Prof. Nodari has been doing research in Environmental History. Main subjects: Transformation of landscapes in Southern Brazil: devastation of Araucaria Forests; environmental disasters; process of migrations and agriculture. She has published in specialized journals, edited collections, book chapters, and books monographs on nature and society in southern Brazil. Nodari is a leading environmental historian in Latin America. She is a Fellow Researcher in Productivity by National Research Council, Brazil – since 2010; Advisor – Master and Ph.D. students in the Graduate Program in History and the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Nodari is a member of the American Society for Environmental History, the European Society for Environmental History and Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental and Associaçao nacional de História. One of the organizer of the Simposio Internacional de Historia Ambiental e Migrações, the main meeting of environmental historians in Brazil.
Celena Allen
GIS Specialist and CESTA Center Manager
Email: celena.allen@gmail.com
Celena Allen joined the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) in 2012. She compliments CESTA with her GIS experience and passion for spatial thinking and visualization while providing technical and general support for students and researchers. Celena has a background in Geography and Cultural Anthropology. She enjoys playing with her daughter Miya, soccer, hiking, and watching Netflix.