Brazil Studies Program
Faculty Committee
Bruno Carvalho
bcarvalh@fas.harvard.eduProfessor 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...
Flavio du Pin Calmon
flavio@seas.harvard.eduAssistant 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...
Frances Hagopian
fhagopian@gov.harvard.eduJorge 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...
Gabrielle Oliveira
gabrielle_oliveira@gse.harvard.eduJorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies
Gabrielle Oliveira’s research focuses on immigration and mobility — on how people move, adapt, and parent across borders. Her expertise includes gender, anthropology, transnationalism across the Americas. Merging the fields of anthropology and education...
Marcia Castro
mcastro@hsph.harvard.eduAndelot 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...
Paula Rettl
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America...
Scott V. Edwards
sedwards@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Scott V. Edwards studies the evolutionary biology of birds and relatives, combining field, museum and genomics approaches to understand the basis of avian diversity, evolution and behavior. His guiding approaches include population genetics, which...
Sidney Chalhoub
chalhoub@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of History and of African and African American Studies
Sidney Chalhoub is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He taught at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil...
