BRASA

BRASA was formally launched during the 1992 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Los Angeles, California. At that meeting some thirty to forty scholars came together and resolved to form an association that would both promote Brazilian studies and continue to build strong links between those who study Brazil and other parts of Latin America.

The First International Congress (BRASA I) was held in Atlanta, Georgia in conjunction with LASA in March 1994. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, an Executive Committee elected, and a Secretariat designated at the University of New Mexico. Founding members Jon M. Tolman and Roberto Reis, were elected as the Association's first President and Vice-President, respectively, and Edward A. Riedinger was elected Secretary.

The second international congress (BRASA II) was held at the University of Minnesota (May 11-13, 1995), BRASA III took place at King's College, Cambridge University (September 7-10, 1996), BRASA IV in Washington, D.C. (November 12-15, 1997), BRASA V in Recife, Pernambuco (June 18-21, 2000), BRASA VI in Atlanta, Georgia (April 3-5, 2002), and BRASA VII was recently held at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (June 9-12, 2004). The Eighth International Congress (BRASA VIII) was hosted by Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (October 13-16, 2006). The Ninth International Congress took place at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 27-29, 2008), and the Tenth International Congress well be held in Brasília in late July 2010.

Kenneth P. Serbin
Department of History
University of San Diego
2006-2008

Timothy J. Power
Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford
2004-2006

James N. Green
Department of History
Brown University
2002-2004

Susan Quinlan
Department of Romance Languages
University of Georgia
2000-2002

Dain Borges
Deparment of History
University of Chicago
1998-2000

Elizabeth Kuznesof
Department of History
University of Kansas
1996-1998

Jon M. Tolman
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of New Mexico
1994-1996

Severino Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ed Amman, University of Manchester

Steve Butterman, University of Miami

Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo

†Tânia Franco Carvalhal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Celso Castro, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Janet Chernela, University of Maryland

Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Christopher Dunn, Tulane University

Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

Maria Luiza Falcão, Universidade de Brasília

Brian Godfrey, Vasser College

Eduardo Gomes, Universidade Federal Fluminense

James N. Green, Brown University

Ted Hewitt, University of Western Ontario

Kathryn Hochstetler, University of New Mexico

Martha K. Huggins, Tulane University

Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin

Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Harvard University

Elizabeth Kiddy, Albright College

Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

Mark Lokensgard, St. Mary’s University

João Roberto Martins Filho, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

David McCreary, Georgia State University

Emanuelle Oliveira, Vanderbilt University

Ricardo Paiva, Independent Scholar

Leigh Ann Payne, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Anthony Pereira, University of East Anglia

Linda Rabben, Amnesty International

Donald Ramos, Cleveland State University

Raul Reis, California State University, Long Beach

Eni de Mesquita Samara, Universidade de São Paulo

Cecília Santos, University of San Francisco

Wayne A. Selcher, Elizabethtown College

Dalila de Sousa Sheppard, Spelman College

William C. Smith, University of Miami

Thomas M. Stephens, Rutgers University, Camden

Tom Trebat, Columbia University

Luiz Valente, Brown University

BRASA History

Past Presidents of BRASA

Past Executive Committee Members (1994-2008)