# Brazil Studies Program Faculty Advisory Committee [### Alejandro de la Fuente ](/people/alejandro-de-la-fuente-0) Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair, Cuba Studies Program; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, law, art, and Atlantic history have been published in Spanish, English, Portuguese... ![alejandro](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/51322_ONLINE_ALARI_WKSHP_MelissaBlackall_-23-1.jpg?h=030ef6e1&itok=q__EW6Q_) [### Alexander Keyssar ](/people/alexander-keyssar-0)Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, HKS Chair, Democratic Institutions and Politics, HKS Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the exploration of historical problems that have contemporary policy implications. His book, The Right to Vote: The... ![alexander_keyssar.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/alexander_keyssar_1.jpeg?itok=LQF5T464) [### Brian D. Farrell ](/people/brian-d-farrell) Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Brian D. Farrell is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Professor Farrell is... ![Brian Farrell](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/brian_farrell.jpg?itok=vLSeUWMa) [### Bruno Carvalho ](/people/bruno-carvalho-1) Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies; Co-Chair, Art, Film, & Culture Faculty Committee Bruno Carvalho works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, specializing on Brazil from the eighteenth century onward. Carvalho’s interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary... ![Bruno](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-08-20%20170954.jpg?h=59816339&itok=pjF1NQx0) [### Candelaria Garay ](/people/candelaria-garay-0) [candelaria\_garay@hks.harvard.edu](mailto:candelaria_garay@hks.harvard.edu)Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Democracy, HKS Candelaria Garay is a Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Democracy at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on social policy, collective action, and party politics in Latin America. She received a PhD and a MA in Political Science... ![garay-bw.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/garay-bw_0.jpg?itok=rDTITSf-) [### Charles Davis ](/people/charles-davis-0) Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Vascular Plants, Harvard Herbaria Charles Davis' research on plant diversity integrates the disciplines of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology. One major theme that unites these disciplines is phylogenetic theory, which he applies to reconstruct the... ![davis.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/davis_1.jpg?itok=Liotp1j8) [### Charles Nelson ](/people/charles-nelson-0) Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, HMS Professor Nelson's research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development. His specific interests are concerned with the effects of... ![nelson_charles.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/nelson_charles_1.jpg?itok=-BFaLXyA) [### Cristiane Soares ](/people/cristiane-soares) Senior Preceptor in Portuguese Cristiane Soares has a B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, a M.A in Applied Linguistics, and a Ph.D in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory. Cristiane has fifteen year of experience teaching Portuguese as a foreign and heritage language in the... ![Cristiane_Soares](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/c_soares.jpg?itok=-pW5BkzL) [### Dana Charles McCoy ](/people/dana-charles-mccoy-0) [dana\_mccoy@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:dana_mccoy@gse.harvard.edu)Assistant Professor of Education, HGSE Dana Charles McCoy is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in children's home, school, and neighborhood environments affect the development of... ![dana-mccoy-105483.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/dana-mccoy-105483_0.jpg?itok=kKETLRiO) [### Elizabeth Spelke ](/people/elizabeth-spelke-0) Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, including the capacity for formal mathematics, the capacity for constructing and using symbolic representations such as maps, the capacity for developing comprehensive... ![spelke.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/spelke_0.jpeg?itok=HZcVzTUU) [### Ellis Monk ](/people/ellis-monk) Assistant Professor of Sociology Ellis Monk is Assistant Professor of Sociology. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and Princeton... ![headshot of Ellis Monk](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/monk_ellis.jpg?itok=JAv3-Lsv) [### Emmerich Davies ](/people/emmerich-davies) [emmerich\_davies\_escobar@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:emmerich_davies_escobar@gse.harvard.edu)Assistant Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education Emmerich Davies specializes in education policy and politics, the political economy of development, and the politics of service provision, with a regional focus on South Asia. His dissertation, for which he was awarded the National Academy of Education... ![headshot of Emmerich Davies](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/emmerich-davies-112302.jpg?itok=tmFjB1kN) [### Felipe Fregni ](/people/felipe-fregni-0)Associate Professor of Neurology Felipe Fregni is an Associate Professor of Neurology and the director of the Neuromodulation Laboration at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School - a state-of-the-art laboratory focused on the investigation of novel methods of... ![fregni.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/fregni_1.jpg?itok=QWdNzrTh) [### Flavio du Pin Calmon ](/people/flavio-du-pin-calmon) Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Flavio du Pin Calmon is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Before joining Harvard he was a social good post-doctoral fellow at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New... ![headshot of Flavio Calmon](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/flavio_1_0_0.jpg?h=370b85c4&itok=dcePkWPb) [### Frances Hagopian ](/people/frances-hagopian-0) Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government Frances Hagopian is Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. Hagopian is... ![Frances](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Frances-Hagopian-e1669153373134.jpg?h=44564a34&itok=zUvVE8fb) [### Gareth Doherty ](/people/gareth-doherty-0)Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program, GSD Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, GSD Gareth Doherty’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology. Doherty's recent research projects have centered on landscape-related practices at various sites across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds... ![garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s-for-web-1920x0-c-default.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s-for-web-1920x0-c-default_1.jpg?itok=exrz19yx) [### Gigi Luk ](/people/gigi-luk-0)Assistant Professor of Education Gigi Luk's research on the cognitive consequences of bilingualism extends across the lifespan. These cognitive consequences include literacy acquisition in children and executive functions in young and older adults. The main research finding is that... ![gigi2.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/gigi2_1.png?itok=h13a1oRO) [### Jack Shonkoff ](/people/jack-shonkoff-0)Julius B. Richmond Famri Professor of Child Health and Development Professor of Pediatrics, HMS Children's Hospital Boston Center on the Developing Child Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston... ![shonkoff.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/shonkoff_0.jpeg?itok=Agu2vZlM) [### Marcia Castro ](/people/marcia-castro-0) Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Chair, Brazil Studies Program Faculty Committee Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Chair of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies... ![Marcia](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/MarciaCastro.jpg?h=7bc44de0&itok=956n6nzf) [### Margot Gill ](/people/margot-gill-0) Administrative Dean for International Affairs, GSAS Margot N. Gill is the Administrative Dean for International Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. From 1994 to 2015 she served as the Administrative Dean for Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, overseeing the... ![margot_gill.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/margot_gill.jpeg?itok=sRIjuwCY) [### Michael Chu ](/people/michael-chu-0)Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, HBS Michael Chu's research and teaching at Harvard Business School focuses on businesses serving low-income populations in both emerging markets and developed nations. He is also a Partner and co-founder of IGNIA, a venture capital firm in Mexico investing in... ![michael_chu_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/michael_chu_01.jpg?itok=vQrONWqY) [### Naomi Pierce ](/people/naomi-pierce-0) Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology Curator of Lepidoptera, Museum of Comparative Zoology Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows Naomi E. Pierce received her BS in biology from Yale University and her PhD from Harvard, and has held appointments as a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford University, and as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Princeton. Her research focuses... ![naomi-pierce_photo-by-tony-rinaldo_373px.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/naomi-pierce_photo-by-tony-rinaldo_373px_1.jpg?itok=KaLTRj-p) [### Noel Michele Holbrook ](/people/noel-michele-holbrook-0) Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook... ![noel](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Holbrook_200x300.jpg?h=d42a39c8&itok=V2Fyq3nR) [### Paola Uccelli ](/people/paola-uccelli-0) [paola\_uccelli@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:paola_uccelli@gse.harvard.edu)Associate Professor of Education, HGSE Paola Uccelli is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. With a background in linguistics, she studies socio-cultural and individual differences in language and literacy development throughout the school years. Her research... ![paola-uccelli-73795.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/paola-uccelli-73795.jpg?itok=4lmL1DJ9) [### Paul Moorcroft ](/people/paul-moorcroft-0) [paul\_moorcroft@harvard.edu](mailto:paul_moorcroft@harvard.edu)Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Paul Moorcroft is an ecologist who investigates the impacts of climate and land-use change on terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems, and how climate and land-use driven changes in the properties of terrestrial ecosystems can feedback and affect... ![moorcroft.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/moorcroft_0.jpeg?itok=I9GFCVbG) [### Paul Wesley Nakazawa ](/people/paul-wesley-nakazawa-0) Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture, GSD Paul W. Nakazawa works internationally as a consultant and adviser to private and public companies, institutions, and governments. His experience encompasses the fields of strategy and leadership development; finance and investments; operations management... ![paul-nakazawa-1920x0-c-default.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/paul-nakazawa-1920x0-c-default_1.jpg?itok=_FLkT1Kc) [### Peter Libby ](/people/peter-libby-0)Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Peter Libby, MD, is the previous Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He also serves as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His current major research focus is the role of... ![peter_libby.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/peter_libby_1.jpeg?itok=40dU6qok) [### Roberto Unger ](/people/roberto-unger-0)Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, HLS Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a philosopher and a social and legal theorist, is the former Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil and the present Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard University. ![unger_headshot.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/unger_headshot_1.jpeg?itok=Sk1yREsd) [### Rohit Deshpandé ](/people/rohit-deshpand%C3%A9-0)Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing Henry B. Arthur Fellow for Business Ethics Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Program for Leadership Development, the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. 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