Faculty & Staff > Joaquim Nabuco Chair in Brazilian Studies

2009-2010

Daniela Calainho (at Stanford January 2010) has a Doctorate from Universidade Federal Fluminense (2000) and is Professor of History at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, since 1993. She works on the colonial history of Brazil, and has specialized on the following themes: inquisition within the Portuguese Empire, slavery, and popular religions in Portugal and in Brazil. She has published many articles on these subjects, as well as two books: Agentes da Fé: Familiares da Inquisição portuguesa no Brasil Colonial (2006) and Metrópole das Mandingas, religiosidade negra e Inquisição portuguesa no Antigo Regime (2008).

Boris Fausto (at Stanford May 2010) is a full professor of History in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at various institutions, including St. Anthony’s College (Oxford); Brown University, and Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (Madrid). He is the author of several books, among which are: A revolução de 1930 (1970); Trabalho Urbano e conflito social (1976); Crime e cotidiano (1984); História do Brasil (1994); A Concise History of Brazil (1999); Getúlio Vargas: o poder e o sorriso (2006); O crime do restaurante chinês (2009).

Carlos Fausto (at Stanford May 2010) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has also been visiting professor at the École Pratiques des Hautes Études (France – 2001), the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France – 2001) and the University of Chicago (2003). He has been conducting research among Amazonian indigenous people since 1988, and is the author of Os Índios antes do Brasil (2000) and Inimigos Fiéis: História, Guerra e Xamanismo na Amazônia (2001). He co-edited Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia (2007), and published numerous articles in Portuguese, English and French on indigenous warfare, shamanism, cannibalism, ritual, ethnohistory, and archaeology. He has also produced documentary videos filmed by indigenous peoples (“The day the moon menstruated” – 2004; “The smell of pequi fruit” – 2005), and curated the exhibition Tisakisü: Tradition and the New Techonologies of Memory (2007).