Biographical Summary

Mario Peters is a historian of modern Latin America, specializing in the history of Brazil and US-Latin American relations. He completed his PhD in History at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany, in 2016, where he also worked as a research fellow and taught courses in Latin American and Caribbean history. Before he joined the German Historical Institute in Washington DC as a research fellow in October 2020, he was a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and visiting lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Apartments for Workers. Social Housing, Segregation, and Stigmatization in Urban Brazil (2018). In recent years, his research has centered around the intersection of inter-American relations, mobility studies, and the history of infrastructure. He recently started a new position at the GHI as Principal Investigator in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This project explores the history of urban mobility in the United States and Brazil in the early twentieth century. Focusing on Washington, DC and São Paulo from 1910 to 1940, it examines the conflicts that emerged with the growth of automobility from comparative and transnational perspectives.