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Center for Brazilian Studies Visiting Scholars

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

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Past Visiting Scholars

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

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Ruth Cardoso Chair

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.

During academic year 2012-2013 there will be no Ruth Cardoso Professor in residence at Columbia.

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Staff

 

Marc A. Hertzman
Director

Marc A. Hertzman became Director of the Center in 2012. Professor Hertzman was trained as a historian of Brazil, but has broad research and teaching interests which stretch across multiple disciplines, Latin America, and the African Diaspora.  After receiving his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he spent two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University, where he taught courses about music, comparative colonialisms, Brazilian history and culture, and intellectual and cultural property.  His doctoral thesis won the 2009 New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Dissertation Award.

His work has appeared in Journal of Latin American Studies and The Hispanic American Historical Review.  He is currently completing a book manuscript on samba, race, and intellectual property in post-abolition Brazil.  He is also preparing two articles, one about historical and musicological theory and method, and another, in honor of Wiebke Ipsen, on female soldiers of color in nineteenth-century Latin America. 

 

Esteban Andrade
Program Manager

Esteban received his BA in Political Science with concentration in Latin American Studies from Manhattanville College.  As a Graduate Division of Arts & Sciences Fellowship Recipient, he received his MA in Spanish Literature from St. John’s University, where he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Committee for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).  Prior to joining ILAS, Esteban worked as the Regional Program Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), where he helped create new partnerships with various academic and research institutions in Latin America, as well as developing project proposals for institutions such as the National Science Foundation, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank.

 

Thomas J. Trebat
Director of the Columbia Global Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professor Tom Trebat is the Director of the new Global Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is also the former Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies. Tom joined 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.