President
Peggy Sharpe
Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics
Florida State University

Peggy Sharpe is Professor of Portuguese at Florida State University where she teaches courses on Brazilian language, culture, literature and film. Her scholarly publications include Espelho na rua: A cidade na ficção de Eça de Queirós (1992), the edited volume Entre resistir e identificar-se: Para uma teoria da prática da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina (1997) and the translation of Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira’s In Praise of Difference: The Emergence of a Global Feminism (1998). She has also published numerous critical editions and scholarly articles on the subject of Brazilian women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

The recipient of two Fulbright awards to Brazil, Sharpe has taught and conducted research at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and Universidade Federal do Maranhão. She has also held elected positions in the Modern Language Association, the American Portuguese Studies Association and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Vice President
Randal Johnson
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles

Immediate Past President
Kenneth P. Serbin
Department of History
University of San Diego

His research focuses on the history of the Catholic Church and social and reproductive issues and the relationship between religion and democracy in Brazil. In 2006 Serbin published Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy  and Seminaries (University of Notre Dame Press). His book Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and  Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil was published in the Latin America Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press (2000).  The Portuguese edition, issued by Companhia das Letras, won the 2003 Book Prize of the Brazil Section of LASA.

Executive Director
Marshall C. Eakin
Department of History
Vanderbilt University

His research focuses on the history of industrialization and nation-building, and his publications include British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 (Duke, 1989), Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin's, 1997) and Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001).  His latest book is The History of Latin America:  Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Secretary
Cecilia Grespan
Vanderbilt University

“Nasci e cresci na região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Estudei na PUC de Curitiba, onde me formei em 1984. Vivo em Nashville desde 1989.”

Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Sociólogo, diplomata, curioso em várias "artes"...

Maria José Somerlate Barbosa
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Iowa

Maria José Somerlate Barbosa (Ph.D UNC, 1990) is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa.  Her book-length publications are: Clarice Lispector: Spinning the Webs of Passion (1996), Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes/Sparkling Mutations (1997), and Des/fiando as Teias da Paixão (2001).  She is the contributing editor of Passo e Compasso: Nos Ritmos do Envelhecer (2003).  Her current research focuses on Afro-Brazilian literature, gender and culture.  She has served as an elected member at the following associations: Modern Language Association (Luso-Brazilian subdivision) and the American Portuguese Studies (Vice-President and President).

Peter Beattie
Department of History
Michigan State University

Peter M. Beattie, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, is the author of The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation 1864-1945, contributing editor of The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, and editor for history and social science of the Luso-Brazilian Review.  He is currently working on a book manuscript on Brazilian penal justice in the second half of the nineteenth century.

   Judy Bieber
   Department of History
   University of New Mexico

   Bieber has published a monograph and several articles on the themes of nineteenth-century
   Brazilian history in the U.S. and in Brazil. Her current research examines policy towards indigenous
   peoples in nineteenth-century Brazil.

 

Kathryn Hochstetler
Balsillie School of International Affairs and
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo

Her research has focused on civil society in Brazil, Mercosul, and the United Nations.  She also has published widely on Brazilian environmental politics.  Her book, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (co-authored with Margaret Keck, Duke University Press, 2007), received the Lynton Caldwell prize from the Science, Technology, and Environment section of the American Political Science Association in 2009. She has also co-authored Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at  UN Conferences (SUNY 2005).

Jan Hoffman French
Department of Anthropology
University of Richmond

(Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Duke University; J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, Northwestern University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. French has published articles in American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, The Americas, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Her book, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Northeastern Brazil will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Spring 2009. Before becoming an anthropologist, French practiced law.

Elizabeth Kiddy
Department of History & Johnson Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Albright College

My recent work has examined the history of the African Diaspora in Brazil, primarily in Minas Gerais, and has been published in articles, chapters, and a book, Blacks of the Rosary, Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil.  My new project focuses on the environmental history of the São Francisco River.

Maxine Margolis
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida

"For the last decade I have been engaged in research and writing about Brazilian emigration to the United States, an area of on-going interest. "

Biorn Maybury-Lewis

Consultant: developing areas, international education, youth movements

Dr. Biorn Maybury-Lewis is a consultant, social scientist, and administrator based in Massachusetts. He has 10+ years of experience in Brazil, most recently in the Amazon region. He has contributed to projects that focus on human rights, rural and urban development, and youth movements in the Americas, Europe, and Africa sponsored by the World Bank, the Inter American Foundation, Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, the National Council of Research (CNPq, Brazil), among other organizations.  Between 1998 and 2009, he served as a senior academic administrator in Florida and Massachusetts.  He publishes on Brazil, Africa, human rights, indigenous peoples, and rural workers.

Cristina Pinto-Bailey
Department of Romance Languages
Washington and Lee University

Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey was born in Rio de Janeiro, and has a Ph.D. from Tulane University in Spanish and Portuguese.  She has published extensively in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Brasil/Brazil, Hispania, and Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, among others. Recent publications include: “Tales of Two Cities: The Space of the Feminine in Sonia Coutinho’s Fiction” (Hispanic Issues Online, 2008); Clarice Lispector. Novos aportes críticos (co-edited with Regina Zilberman; 2007); “‘Compulsory’ Whiteness and Female Identity: Race and Gender in Contemporary Brazilian Women’s Writings” (Letras femeninas, 2006); and Gender, Discourse and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature (2004).  Her translation of Ignacio de Loyola Brandão's novel Teeth under the Sun (Dentes ao sol, 1976) was published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. She currently teaches in the Department of Romance Languages at Washington and Lee University.