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President
Peggy Sharpe
Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics
Florida State University
Peggy Sharpe is Professor of Portuguese at Florida State University where she teaches courses on Brazilian language, culture, literature and film. Her scholarly publications include Espelho na rua: A cidade na ficção de Eça de Queirós (1992), the edited volume Entre resistir e identificar-se: Para uma teoria da prática da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina (1997) and the translation of Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira’s In Praise of Difference: The Emergence of a Global Feminism (1998). She has also published numerous critical editions and scholarly articles on the subject of Brazilian women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The recipient of two Fulbright awards to Brazil, Sharpe has taught and conducted research at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and Universidade Federal do Maranhão. She has also held elected positions in the Modern Language Association, the American Portuguese Studies Association and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Immediate Past President
Kenneth P. Serbin
Department of History
University of San Diego
His research focuses on the history of the Catholic Church and social and reproductive issues and the relationship between religion and democracy in Brazil. In 2006 Serbin published Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy and Seminaries (University of Notre Dame Press). His book Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil was published in the Latin America Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press (2000). The Portuguese edition, issued by Companhia das Letras, won the 2003 Book Prize of the Brazil Section of LASA.
Executive Director
Marshall C. Eakin
Department of History
Vanderbilt University
His research focuses on the history of industrialization and nation-building, and his publications include British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 (Duke, 1989), Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin's, 1997) and Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001). His latest book is The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Secretary
Cecilia Grespan Vanderbilt University
“Nasci e cresci na região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Estudei na PUC de Curitiba, onde me formei em 1984. Vivo em Nashville desde 1989.”
Maria José Somerlate
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Iowa
Maria José Somerlate Barbosa (Ph.D UNC, 1990) is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Her book-length publications are: Clarice Lispector: Spinning the Webs of Passion (1996), Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes/Sparkling Mutations (1997), and Des/fiando as Teias da Paixão (2001). She is the contributing editor of Passo e Compasso: Nos Ritmos do Envelhecer (2003). Her current research focuses on Afro-Brazilian literature, gender and culture. She has served as an elected member at the following associations: Modern Language Association (Luso-Brazilian subdivision) and the American Portuguese Studies (Vice-President and President).
Steve Butterman Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures University of Miami
"I have published articles on a wide range of topics, including Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture, Queer Theory, Women’s Studies, and Postmodernism. My first book, Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso will be published in the spring."
Celso Castro
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Doutor em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional/UFRJ e pesquisador do CPDOC da Fundação Getulio Vargas. Publicou vários livros sobre os militares na história e na sociedade brasileira. É editor da revista Estudos Históricos, dos informativos eletrônicos do CPDOC e diretor das coleções 'Descobrindo o Brasil' e 'Ciências Sociais Passo-a-Passo', da editora Jorge Zahar.
Jerry Dávila Department of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"I am a historian of race relations and my current interest in Brazilian relations with Africa stems from my recent study of race and educational policy, Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (Duke, 2003)."
Maxine Margolis Department of Anthropology University of Florida "For the last decade I have been engaged in research and writing about Brazilian emigration to the United States, an area of on-going interest. "
Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Dean of Academic Affairs
New England Institute of Art
A political scientist, Dr. Maybury-Lewis has studied and written on rural social movements in Brazil since the late 1970s. In recent years, he has concentrated on riverine peoples, rubber tappers, agricultural workers, and indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon: in the region around Belém, Pará, in the central Amazon between Manaus and Tefé, and in the state of Acre. He has also focused on both urban and rural human rights questions.
Kathryn Hochstetler
Department of Political Science
University of New Mexico
Her research has focused on civil society in Brazil, Mercosul, and the United Nations. She also has publised widely on Brazilian environmental politics. Her book, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (co-authored with Margaret Keck), will be published in 2007 by Duke University Press. She has also co-authored Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN Conferences (SUNY 2005).
Emanuelle Oliveira Department of Spanish & Portuguese Vanderbilt University " My manuscript Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature is currently under evaluation by a U.S. academic press. My research interests include Latin American cinema, contemporary Hispanic American literature, cultural studies, and feminist theory."
Cecília Santos Department of Sociology University of San Francisco
"Meus interesses acadêmicos pautam-se pela dupla formação sociológica e jurídica, com enfoque em gênero e direitos humanos no Brasil. O meu livro, intitulado Women´s Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo, Brazil, será publicado em janeiro de 2005."
William C. SmithDepartment of International Studies University of Miami
His fields of specialization include democratization, the politics of market-oriented restructuring, and transnational social movements in the Americas. He is the author of Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy and the authors of numerous articles in scholarly journals and is the editor of several edited volumes on Latin American political economy. Smith has taught and conducted research at several Latin American universities and research institutes, including the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Contexto Internacional (IRI-PUC) and the Luso-Brazilian Review and is the Editor of Latin American Politics and Society.
Elizabeth Kiddy
Department of History & Johnson Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College
My recent work has examined the history of the African Diaspora in Brazil, primarily in Minas Gerais, and has been published in articles, chapters, and a book, Blacks of the Rosary, Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil. My new project focuses on the environmental history of the São Francisco River.
Mark LokensgardDepartment of Languages St. Mary's University
Tenho artigos publicados em diversas áreas: literatura luso-brasileira, o ensino do português como língua estrangeira, e também traduções literárias. Meus interesses de pesquisa atuais são conceitos e representações da justiça e do direito na literatura e cinema brasileiros. Sou chefe do Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras em St. Mary’s.
João Roberto Martins FilhoDepartamento de Ciências Sociais Universidade Federal de São Carlos
"Publiquei Movimento estudantil e ditadura militar, 1964-68 (Papirus, 1987) e O palácio e a caserna, a dinâmica militar das crises da ditadura, 1964-69 (Edufscar, 1995). Sou atualmente coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UFSCar."
Tom TrebatInstitute of Latin American Studies & Center for Brazilian Studies Columbia University
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