Roberta Marx Delson

<p>Roberta Marx Delson (1945--2025) was a historian of Brazil, Latin America, the Caribbean, urbanism and the interface between science and politics. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University for a study of urban planning in colonial Brazil, published in English in 1979 and in Portuguese in 1998. Among her later publications were papers on Brazilian town planning and its visual record, landscape conservation, the textile industry and indigenous dress, as well as broader works on 19th century sugar production, ethnicity and migration of global textile workers and an edited volume of documents concerning Caribbean history and economics. She taught history at Rutgers University&mdash;Newark, Princeton University, the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy and Drew University.</p>