Daniela Campello, Spring 2026
Daniela Campello is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and previously served as an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Campello has also been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (Oxford CAF) and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars. Her research sits at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, with a particular emphasis on the political consequences of globalization in emerging economies. Her work has been published in leading political science journals, and she is the author of The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-author of The Volatility Curse (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She is currently working on a new book project, provisionally titled Obstructing the Future: The Politics of Climate Policy in Brazil. Before entering academia, Campello worked as a business consultant at Accenture, a sell-side financial analyst at BTG Pactual, and as a project manager for the Rio de Janeiro state government, overseeing initiatives financed by international financial institutions.
Mara Eskinazi, Fall 2025
Mara Eskinazi is an Architect and Urbanist, and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU UFRJ) and at the Graduate Program in Urbanism (PROURB FAU UFRJ) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she has been teaching since 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Urbanism from the Graduate Program in Urbanism (PROURB FAU UFRJ, 2013), including a doctoral research period at the Institut für Architektur of the Technische Universität Berlin (2011-2012), in Berlin, Germany; and a Master’s in Architecture from the Graduate Program in Architecture of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PROPAR FA UFRGS, 2008), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In 2022-2023, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, under the supervision of Professor Jean-Louis Cohen. Her academic and professional expertise spans Architecture and Urbanism, with an emphasis on architectural design as well as theory, history and criticism of architecture, working mainly on the following subjects: housing, modern architecture, particularly in the 1950s, continuity and criticism of modernity, foundation and conception of architectural design, façades and architectural devices for environmental control. At the undergraduate level, she teaches architectural design studios. In graduate studies, she is a member of the UrCA group (Urbanism, Criticism and Architecture), at
PROURB FAU UFRJ, where she teaches and leads the research project “The Façade as an Interface: Design Repertoire”, examining multi-family residential architecture in Rio de Janeiro through its façade plans. She also participates in the research group “Design Teaching and Research: The Production of Modern and Contemporary Architecture”, at PROPAR FA UFRGS, in Porto Alegre. She is currently working on the book Irmãos Roberto: Architectures for a City, which examines the residential buildings designed by the Roberto Brothers for Rio de Janeiro, focusing on studying architectural design strategies that highlight the building’s urban dimension.
Argentine Studies Visiting Fellows
- Nicholas Barnes, University of Saint Andrew, Scotland, "Resident responses to criminal governance".
- Guillermo Sardi García, City University of New York, Grad Center, "How collaboration and confrontation with non-state armed groups shape democratic backsliding in Latin America".
For a list of past Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellows click on the title.