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Associated Faculty

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

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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.

We are pleased to welcome our second Ruth Cardoso Professor for the academic year 2010 - 2011, Margareth Rago.

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 joined us as our first Ruth Cardoso Professor in the 2009 - 2010 academic year.

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).

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Staff

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.