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About

Officers (2010-2012)

 

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



Vice President

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.
Immediate Past 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.

 

Illinois Secretariat

 

Interim Executive Director


Mary Arends-Kuenning
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois

She is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include children's schooling and child labor, household consumption, and international migration. She began doing research on Brazil in 1992 as part of her dissertation at the University of Michigan. Her work on Brazil has been published in World Development, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and as book chapters. This work is often cited in World Bank and United Nations publications and by researchers.

 

BRASA Research Assistants

 

   

                          

Marilia Correa Kuyumjian                                              Marcos de Moraes Cerdeira     

 

Executive Committee Members

 

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










   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.

 

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. "

 

     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.

 

 

Vania Penha-Lopes

Department of Sociology
Bloomfield College

 

Vânia Penha-Lopes is Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College, in New Jersey. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Bachelor’s, Social Sciences, with distinction) and New York University (M.A., Anthropology; Ph.D., Sociology). As a post-doctoral fellow at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, she did research on the first graduating class of Brazilian university quota students. Professor Penha-Lopes is co-chair of the Brazil Seminar at Columbia University, co-director of the Center for Alternative Visions at Bloomfield College, a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association (2010-14), and a columnist for Afropres. She has received a number of awards, including the Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Afro-American and African Studies, from the University of Virginia, and the Scholarship for Study Abroad from the Encyclopaedia Britannica do Brasil. She has lectured extensively and published on comparative race relations, African American fatherhood, and racism in Brazil.

 

 

Sonia Ranincheski

Research Center and Graduate Program on the Americas

University of Brasilia (CEPPAC/UnB)

 

Sonia Ranincheski is Social Scientist and Researcher on political sociology, political culture and political elites in Brazil and the Americas. Currently she teaches at the Research Center and Graduate Program on the Americas, the University of Brasilia (CEPPAC/UnB). She has published numerous articles in reviews, both in Brazil and abroad, and her more recent books are "Elite e trabalho no Brasil e Uruguai: a origem do debate" (2010), “Desafios aos Direitos Humanos no Brasil” (2011) and "Américas compartilhadas" (2009).

 

Marianne Schmink

Latin American Studies and Anthropology

University of Florida

 

Marianne Schmink is Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Florida, where she served Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program from 1988-2010. She has co-authored (with Charles H. Wood) Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (Columbia University Press, 1992), and (with Mâncio Lima Cordeiro) Rio Branco:  A Cidade da Florestania (2008, UFPa/UFAC), in addition to three edited books, and over fifty articles, book chapters, and reports. Dr. Schmink has had grants from the Mellon Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and Moore Foundation to support collaborative research and training programs at UF and in Latin America.

Bryan McCann

Department of History, Georgetown University

 

James Green

Department of History, Brown University