Cassandra’s research interests include Modern Latin America & the Caribbean, African Diaspora in Latin America, Brazil, Racial Inequality, Race, Gender, & Power, Social Geographies of Race. As a doctoral student, her research examines twentieth-century Brazil and modern Latin American history. Cassandra is interested in racial inequality in Brazil, Afro-Brazilian movements, and African Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean. My dissertation project is invested in questions on Afro-Brazilian women and their economic mobility and immobility in Brazil’s labor market in the later twentieth century. My case studies for this research are in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (Portuguese), 2017-18. Some of the grants Cassandra has received include Department Pre-Dissertation Grant (History), Summer 2017, Department Fellowship (History), 2016-17, Tinker Fellowship (Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies), Summer 2016.