BRAHUS members gathered during the 17th Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA, April 3-6, 2024), in San Diego.
Membros da BRAHUS reunidos em San Diego para o 17o Congresso da Associação de Estudos Brasileiros (BRASA, 3-6 de abril, 2024).
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Ph.D. Student, History
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests:
Afro-Latinos, Critical Race Theory, Racial Formation in Latin America in the context of the modern national state’s formation; discourse of racial harmony in Latin America throughout the 20th century; Military Dictatorships in Latin America; Democracy in the U.S and Latin America; Grassroots Movements in Latin America; Public History.
Ph.D., History
Emory University
Co-founder of BRAHUS
Research Interests:
Modern Brazil; Popular Culture; Brazilian Music and Spirituality; Military Dictatorship.
Aline Beatriz Pereira Silva Coutinho
Ph.D. student, History
Purdue University
Research Interests:
Feminist movements; Reproductive Rights;
Gender ideology; Modern Brazil; Gender Studies.
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
Liberated Africans in the Atlantic World, especially in the Portuguese Empire.
Ph.D., History,
Brown University;
Assistant Professor of History & International Studies,
Louisiana State University
Research Interests:
Cold War; Nationalism; Development; Dictatorship; Armed Forces; Memory.
Ph.D. Student, History,
Harvard University
Research Interests:
Quilombo; Oral History; Race; Memory.
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Chicago
Research Interests:
Intellectual history; political theory; democracy and democratic theory; early twentieth-century Brazil; race; nationalism; US imperialism
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Brown University
Research Interests:
LGBTQ+ history; feminist theory; social movements; gender/sexuality in modern Latin America.
Ph.D. Student, History
Emory University
Research Interests:
Modern Brazil; Political Prisons; Female Incarceration; Military Dictatorship; Gender Studies; and Public History.
Ph.D. Student, History
Emory University
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America; Atlantic World; Economic History; Transnational History; British Empire.
Ph.D. Student, History
Rice University
Research Interests:
Latin American History; Environmental History; Digital Humanities.
Caio Fernandes Barbosa
Ph.D., Social History, Federal University of Bahia; Postdoc, History at the University of Nevada Reno
Research Interests:
Conservative discourses and policies aimed at youth, black men and women during the Cold War; Microanalytical experiments in contemporary authoritarian contexts.
Ph.D. Student, History, University of Chicago
Research Interests:
20th century Brazil; Domestic workers; Education; Social History; Intellectual history.
Ph.D. Candidate, African and African American Studies and History
Harvard University
Research Interests:
Afro-Latin American History, Environmental History, race, gender and class, African-derived spiritualities.
Estela Maria Gonçalves de Souza
Ph.D. Student, History
Michigan State University
Research Interests:
Race, Gender, Black Masculinities, Diaspora, Brazilian Post Abolition Period, 19th century.
Ph.D. Student, History
Harvard University
Research Interests:
Social History of slavery and manumission in 19th-century Brazil.
Ph.D. Candidate, History
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests:
Conservative movements in Brazil and the US; think tanks; neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the religious right; conservative legal thought.
Ph.D., History
University of Chicago
Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Research Interests:
Modern Brazil; economic history; material culture and urban studies
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Florida, Gainesville
Research Interests:
Latin American and Caribbean History, 20th Century Cuba, Modern Latin America, Cuban Diaspora, Cold War Politics, Public Opinion, Social and Political Movements.
Ph.D. Student, Latin America and Latino Studies
University of California,
Santa Cruz
Research interests: Coloniality; Decolonial Studies; Whiteness; Privilege; Public History.
Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Research Interests:
Women and Queer Artists; Contemporary Art from South America; Brazilian Art and Architecture; Assemblage Art and the Found Object; Sculpture.
Ph.D. Student, History
Temple University
Research Interests:
U.S.-Brazil Relations; U.S.-Latin America relations; Cold War Studies; 20th Century Brazil; Modern Colombia.
Ph.D. Candidate, History
University of Michigan
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America, especially Brazil; Legal history; Cultural history of politics.
Ph.D. Student, History
Brown University
Co-founder of BRAHUS
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America, specially Brazil; Indigenous History; Human Rights; Transnational History; Environmental History; Public History
Ph.D. Candidate, History
University of California, Davis
Research Interests:
Amazonian History, Atlantic World, Early Colonial Americas, Brazilian History, Indigenous History, Borderlands History, Digital Humanities and GIS methodologies.
DMA Candidate, Jazz Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests:
Transnational practices of black music between Brazil and the United States.
Ph.D., History
University of Texas, Austin
Research Interests:
Brazilian History; Cold War in Latin America; Human Rights, archives; U.S.-Latin American Relations.
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Vanderbilt University
Research Interests:
Modern Brazil, State Building, Popular Classes.
Ph.D. Student, History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests:
Latin American & Caribbean History; Colonial Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese Empires, Race & Gender, Family History and Legal History.
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Brown University
Research Interests:
Gender History; Modern Latin America; Social and Political Movements; Political Subjectivity; Memory Studies; Public History.
Ph.D., History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America; Cold War politics; military dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
Ph.D. Student, History
University of New Mexico
Research Interests:
Public history; Authoritarianism and liberty in Latin America.
Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Georgetown University
Research Interests:
Environmental History, History, Latin American History.
Ph.D. Student, History
Stanford University
Research Interests:
Political History; 19th century Brazil; Constitutional History; Federalism; History of
Ideas; Transnational History.
Ph.D. Student, African and African American Studies with a primary field in History,
Harvard University
Research interests:
Modern Latin America; Race and Ethnicity; Popular festivities.
Ph.D., History
Vanderbilt University;
Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans
Research Interests:
Brazilian History, Public Health and the history of physical culture.
Ph.D. Student, History, New York University
Research Interests:
African Diaspora; 20th Century West Africa and Brazil Relations; Slavery Memory; Afro-Muslims.
Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, History,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests:
Modern Latin America; Modern Brazil; Urban History; Global and Transnational History; Public History; Citizenship; Social Inequalities; Housing.
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