Elisa Frühauf Garcia is Professor of History at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), where she received her PhD in History. She has done postdoctoral research at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. A CNPq Research Productivity Fellow and Faperj Scientist of Our State, she has received numerous research grants, including those from the Fundación Carolina, the Newberry Library, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History. She has also been a visiting professor at the State University of Feira de Santana (Bahia). An expert on the indigenous peoples of Brazil, her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Adopting a long-term perspective, her work connects history, cultural heritage, and different uses of the past. She will be teaching History of Brazil and Transnational Feminisms.
Elisa Frühauf Garcia
Magna Inácio, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2024
Magna Inácio is associate professor of Political Science and former director of the Centre for Legislative Studies (CEL-DCP) at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University (Jan/July, 2019); Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford (2012; 2017); GIGA/Hamburg (2014); Universidad de Salamanca (2009).
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Suzel Ana Reily, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2024
Suzel Ana Reily is Titular Professor of Ethnomusicology at the State University of Campinas. She recently coordinated the FAPESP Flagship Project "Local Musicking: new trajectories for ethomusicology".
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José Vicente Caixeta-Filho, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2023
His main field of work is logistics(transportation and storage issues, mostly), with the use Operations Research models (including mathematical programming). Bachelor in Civil Engineering by Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo – USP (1984); Master in Economics by University of New England, Australia (1989); Doctorate in Engineering by Polytechnic School, USP (1993).
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Antonio Carlos Lessa, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2022
Dr. Antonio Carlos Lessa is the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Fall 2022 semester. Hailing from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) where he is Full Professor of International Relations, Professor Lessa teaches courses on the History of Brazilian Foreign Policy in graduate and undergraduate programs. He also serves as Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Coordinator at UnB’s Center for Global Studies.
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Jose Luis Jobim, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2022
Professor Jobim was a professor of Literature at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, his research focuses on territory, memory, and migration in some 16 books and several dozens of articles in Brazilian and international journals during his 30-year career. He was a full professor at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), where he was Director of the Institute of Literature and Coordinator of the Literature Program.
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Armando João Dalla Costa, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2020-2021
Armando João Dalla Costa is the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020-2021). Professor in the Professional Graduate Program in Economics and in the Graduate Program in Economic Development at the Federal University of Parana. PhD in Economic History at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (1997).
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Luís Cláudio Pereira Symanski, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2019-2020
Luís Cláudio Pereira Symanski is an Associate Professor of history, anthropology, and archaeology in the Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). He also serves as the Vice-Director of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology within that division of UFMG. Luís’ teaching and advising are addressed to undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.
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Marco Bonomo, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2018
Marco Bonomo is Professor of Economics at Insper, where he has served as Associate Dean of Research and Research Degree Programs and as director of the Center for Finance Center (CeFi). He is currently a CNPq (Brazilian Research Council) Research Fellow, and a member of the Latin American Standing Committee of the Econometric Society, of the board of directors of the Brazilian Econometric Society, of the Brazilian Economic Cycle Dating Committee (CODACE, IBRE-FGV), and of the CVM (Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission) Behavioral Studies Nucleus.
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Nadya Guimarães, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2018
Nadya Guimarães holds the Chair in Sociology of Work at the University of São Paulo. Since 1995 she is a CNPq Senior Researcher associated to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), and in 2016 was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She also holds the positions of Associate Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, in the UK, and is a Board Member of the International and Interdisciplinary Network on “Marché du Travail et Genre” (“Labor Market and Gender”), CNRS/France.
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Ruben Oliven, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2016
Ruben Oliven is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) and was a visiting professor at several universities, among them the University of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Brown University and the University of Paris.
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Eduardo Rios-Neto, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2015-2016
Eduardo Rios-Neto is the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during the 2015-2016 academic year. Professor of Demography at CEDEPLAR-Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he has taught since 1980. He has a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Fábio Akcelrud Durão, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2014
Fábio Durão is professor of literary theory at the State University of Campinas. He is the author of Modernism and Coherence (2008), Teoria (literária) americana (2011), and the forthcoming Fragmentos Reunidos (2015). Among his edited and coedited volumes, there are Modernism Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008) and Culture Industry Today (2010).
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Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2014
Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Titulaire of the Chaire brésilienne de sciences sociales Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and is a Senior Researcher at Centro de Estudos da Metropole, supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) and Senior Research of CNPQ (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa).
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Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2013
Dr. Júlio César Bicca-Marques is Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. He has a B.Sc. in Biology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1986), a M.Sc. in Ecology from the University of Brasília (1991) and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000). He teaches ecology, conservation biology, animal behavior, primatology and scientific writing and conducts research on non-human primates.
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Carlos R. Azzoni, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2012
Dr. Carlos R. Azzoni is Full Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo, with M. S. and Ph. D. from that university. He was chairman of the Department of Economics, associate dean and dean of the School of Economics, Administration and Accounting of USP. He was the Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Ohio State University and University of Illinois. His area of research is regional inequality.
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Eduardo Coutinho, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2011
Dr. Eduardo Coutinho has a BA in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1968), an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1973) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley (1983). He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Roberto DaMatta, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2010
Dr. Roberto DaMatta has a B.A degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); a specialization course in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (UFRJ); and a M.A. and Ph.D. degree from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. He was Head of Anthropology Department and Coordinator the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum (UFRJ).
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