Faculty Committee
Marcelo Paixão, Brazil Center Chair
Chair
Marcelo Paixão, associate professor at LLILAS and the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, serves as chair of the LLILAS Brazil Center.
Paixão's research interests include race relations and inequalities in Brazil and Latin America; public policy issues and monitoring; models of socioeconomic development; labor market; statistics of race, ethnic, and gender inequality. He was recipient of the inaugural Signature Course Inclusive Classroom Award in fall 2020 for his course Tones of Inequality: How Songs Express Latin American Social Inequality, Exclusion, and Injustice; and the 2021–22 Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He is the author of A lenda da modernidade encantada: por uma crítica ao pensamento social brasileiro sobre relações raciais e projeto de Estado-Nação (2014).
In the leadup to the fall 2022 general elections in Brazil, Paixão authored a series of articles for revista piauí, which can be read here.
Committee Members
Nessette Falu
Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department
Interests: Gynecology, structural violence, reproductive justice, race, queerness, gender, erotic power and autonomy, ethics
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Seth Garfield
Professor, Department of History
Interests: Brazilian history and environmental history; race and ethnicity in Latin America; Indigenous policy; comparative frontiers
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Adele Nelson
Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Co-Director, Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS)
Interests: Modern and contemporary art of Latin America, with a focus on Brazil; art, social identity, and social justice; theories of modernism and artistic activism; exhibition and institutional histories; close object study; curation
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Brazilianist Faculty
LLILAS is richly endowed with expertise in Brazil-related topics, with roughly 50 Brazilianist faculty members spread across most of the university's school and colleges. For more information about LLILAS faculty working on Brazilian issues, visit the LLILAS Faculty page and filter your search by area.
