# Brazil Studies Program ## Faculty Committee [### 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) [### 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) [### Gabrielle Oliveira ](/people/gabrielle-oliveira) [gabrielle\_oliveira@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:gabrielle_oliveira@gse.harvard.edu)Jorge 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... ![Gabrielle](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-08-30%20163633.jpg?h=9498366d&itok=tXotA97N) [### 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) [### Paula Rettl ](/people/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... ![Paula](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-08-30%20163737.jpg?itok=oHHCA4k0) [### Scott V. Edwards ](/people/scott-v-edwards-0) Professor 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... ![edwards0003.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/edwards0003_1.jpg?itok=xJBpkqqS) [### Sidney Chalhoub ](/people/sidney-chalhoub-0) Professor 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... ![sidney_chalhoub.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/dscf2302_0_0_0_0%20%281%29.jpg?h=a7596082&itok=slCdlQtW)