James Green is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. Green is also chairing the Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in the United States that held a National Conference at Brown University in Fall 2005. He is currently finishing the manuscript, "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85, under contract with Duke University Press.

He is working with S4 on a new historical project with the Stanford Humanities Center and University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The project seeks to develop detailed reconstructions of urban spaces and histories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the nineteenth century. It will provide the most detailed and complete geohistorical archive ever assembled for a city in South America. Green is also working on a related book manuscript entitled "The Crossroads of Sin and the Collision of Cultures: Pleasure and Popular Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1920."