Faculty Committee
Eugenio Arima, Brazil Center Chair
Chair
Eugenio Arima
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
Arima's research lies at the intersection of land change science, spatial analysis, and landscape ecology. He is a human-environmental geographer interested in understanding the motivations that drive humans to act upon and transform tropical landscapes and how that manifests spatially in terms of patterns. This link between human agency and landscape pattern is based on conceptual and theoretical approaches derived from behavioral theory and political economy.
Arima's work typically employs mixed methods such as interview-based fieldwork, computer simulation, econometrics and spatial statistics, geographic information systems, and remote sensing. As a result of this theoretical and methodological diversity, he has published in a range of journals within geography, ecology, economics, and sociology.
Committee Members
Jason Borge
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Interests: Latin American popular music and sound studies, including Brazil; film and media studies; transnational American Studies; early-to-mid 20th century cultural history; literary and cultural vanguards; new jazz studies
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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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Januibe Tejera de Miranda
Assistant Professor of Composition; Director, Experimental and Electronic Music Studios; Butler School of Music
Interests: Combining contemporary music with oral music traditions, new technology, and theatrical elements; music as a multi-sensory experience
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Kurt Weyland
Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Government
Interests: Democratization and authoritarian rule, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America and Europe
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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.
