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Adriana Abdenur
Assistant Professor, Teacher’s College
Walter Baethgen
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute
Lesley Bartlett
Assistant Professor of Education, Teachers College
Charles Calomiris
Professor, Columbia Business School
Guillermo Calvo
Professor, Department of Economics
Jose Antonio Castellanos Pazos
Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Cristiane Duarte
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Alan Dye
Associate Professor of Economics, Barnard College
Albert Fishlow
Professor Emeritus, Department of International Affairs
Helios Herrera
Lecturer in Discipline, School of International and Public Affairs
Marc Hertzman
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Robert Kaufman
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Richard Parker
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociomedical Studies, Mailman School of Public Health
Miguel Angel Pinedo-Vasquez
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Ecology, Environment, and Evolutionary Biology
Karl Sauvant
Director, Columbia Program on International Investment, Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
Lisa Schineller
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Fernando Sotelino
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Mariana Souto-Manning
Assistant Professor, Education
Alfred Stepan
Professor, Department of Political Science
Thomas J. Trebat
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Maria Uriarte
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology
Milton Wainberg
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Recent visiting scholars at the Center for Brazilian Studies include:
Maria De Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, Universidade de São Paulo
Area of research: Sociology – immigration, indigenous affairs, and youth
Marcelo Campos Hazan, Independent Researcher
Area of research: Musicology, ritual, and race
Hugo Faria, Independent Researcher
Area of research: Economics – emerging markets
Rodrigo Gonzalez, Universidade de São Paulo
Area of research: Business administration – risk control, quality management, strategic positioning
Celia Lessa Kerstenetsky, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Area of research: Progress and poverty in classical political economy
Luiz Paulo Lopes Fávero, Universidade de São Paulo
Area of research: Business administration – industrialization and firm operations
Lilia Maia de Morais Sales, Universidade de Forteleza
Area of research: Applied social sciences – community, mediation, and citizenship
Jorge Claudio Noel Ribiero Junior, Pontificia Universidade Catolica – São Paulo
Area of research: Philosophy – religiosity and youth
Renato Falci Villela Loures, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Area of research: Economics– banking regulation and oversight
Natalia Silva Coimbra de Sa, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Area of research: Culture and society – travel narrative, tourism, and cultural identity
Oriana Trinidade De Almeida, Universidade Federal do Pará
Area of research: Environmental science – community management, floodplain eco-systems, economic analysis
Jose Savoia
Professor, University of Sao Paulo-Brazil
Jawdat Abu-El-Haj
Professor, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza-Brazil
Gustavo Sénéchal De Goffredo Junior
Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations – First Secretary
Marcelo Böhlke
Diplomat, Brazilian Mission to the United Nations, in New York
Paulo Vieira Da Cunha
Former Director of International Affairs of the Central Bank of Brazil
Rafael Duarte Villa
Professor of Political and International Relations, University of Sao Paulo-Brazil
Ricardo Wahrendorff Caldas
Consultant, The World Bank
Gutemberg Amando Diniz Guerra
Professor at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Altamira and Marabá
Maria De Nazaré Angelo Menezes
Professor at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Altamira and Marabá
Léo Da Rocha Ferreira
Professor of Economics, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Merval Pereira
Journalist, O Globo newspaper, Globonews, CBN radio network
Jose Alexadre Ferreira
Professor, Catholic University of Pernambuco and Fiscal Auditor of the State of Pernambuco
Eduardo Viotti
Professor, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
CAPES, FAPESP, Columbia University and the Fulbright Commission established a new visiting professorship for Brazilian scholars in 2009 in honor of the former Brazilian First Lady and renowned sociologist Ruth Cardoso.

Margareth Rago visits us from the Department of History at the State University of Campinas. Her research crosses many themes, including: post-structuralism, feminism, anarchism, subjectivity, and gender, and makes reference to such authors as Foucault and Deleuze. Professor Rago obtained her undergraduate degrees in history and philosophy from the University of São Paulo, and a Master of Arts and doctorate degree in history at the University of Campinas. Welcome Professor Rago!

Lia Zanotta Machado is an anthropologist who specializes in feminist movements, violence, and sexual and reproductive rights. While in residence at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Professor Machado researched the impact of the movement for human and women's rights, as well as rights to cultural diversity, on feminist movements and knowledge. She also teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, and recently released her book, Institutional Challenges in Combating Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNIFEM, 2007).

Thomas J. Trebat
Executive Director
Professor Tom Trebat is the Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies. He joins Columbia after a lengthy career on Wall Street dedicated to economic research on Latin America. Prior to joining ILAS in February 2005, Tom was Managing Director and Head of the Latin America team in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. He joined Citicorp Securities in 1996 as the head of Emerging Market Research. Previously, he worked at Bankers Trust, the Ford Foundation, and Chemical Bank. As a senior international economist at Bankers Trust, he was involved in many aspects of country debt negotiations in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America during the 1980s. At the Ford Foundation, he served for four years as the Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs. At Chemical Bank, Tom organized and directed the emerging markets research group. Mr. Trebat has a Ph.D in economics from Vanderbilt University and remains active in teaching and publishing. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. His book, “Brazil's State-owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 1983.