Anne G. Hanley is Board of Trustees Professor and Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, where she has taught since 1999.  Her research interests are in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazilian economic history.  She is the author of Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil 1850-1920 (Stanford 2005) and The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822-1930 (Chicago, 2018), as well as many articles and chapters on Brazil’s economic and financial history. She is writing a book a history of standardization in nineteenth-century Brazil, leading to the adoption of the metric system and the conduct of the first national census in 1872.