Faculty & Staff > Recent Joaquim Nabuco Chairs in Brazilian Studies

2008-2009

Hebe Mattos is Full Professor of History at University Federal Fluminense in Brazil. She is the author or co-author of numerous books on Brazilian slavery, memory of slavery, and racial relations in Brazil, including Das Cores do Silêncio, Significados da Liberdade no Sudeste Escravista, Brasil, séc. XIX (Nova Fronteira, 1998), for which she received the Brazil National Archive Research Award (1995), and The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Abolition in Brazil (with Rebecca Scott, Seymor Dresher, George Reid Andrews and Robert Levine, Duke University Press, 1988). Her most recent book is Memórias do Cativeiro: Família, Trabalho e Cidadania no pós-abolição with Ana Lugão Rios (Civilização Brasileira, 2005). She is also (with Martha Abreu) the general director of the research historical movies Memórias do Cativeiro (2005) and Jongos, Calangos and Folias: Música Negra, memória e poesia (2007), produced by the LABHOI-Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (Oral History and Image Lab) of Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Presently she is developing research on slavery, manumission, and the historical process of building racial categories in Brazil.

2007-2008

Dr. Marco A. Pamplona is a professor of history at the Universidade federal Fluminense and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, in Rio de Janeiro. He deals with topics related to state making and nation building, citizenship, and the idea of republic in the Americas from a comparative perspective. He has published Riots, Republicanism, and Citizenship (1996), later translated to Portuguese (2003), Revendo o Sonho Americano: 1890-1972 (1996); he has edited Escravidão, exclusão e cidadania (2001); and, he co-edited Nationalism in the New World (2006) and Revoluções de Independência e nacionalismos nas Américas (2007). In addition he wrote several articles for international journals comparing nineteenth-century intellectuals and nationalism in Iberian America. He is the director of the Fulbright Chair at PUC-Rio, in Brazil.

Dr. Mariza Soares is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is responsible for teaching courses on slavery and African diaspora. Prof. Soares is also the Director of the Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-África (NEAF), which is linked with the International Office at UFF. Since 2002, Prof. Soares has been a Network Professor of the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora at York University. Her book, Devotos da Cor. Identidade étnica, religiosidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro, século XVII, is currently under contract with Duke University Press and is being translated into English. She has worked on several research projects, including Mina People in Rio de Janeiro (funded by the Tubman Centre, Canada), and Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba, directed by Jane Landers (funded by NEH, U.S.). She is presently directing the project, Acervo Digital Angola Brasil (funded by CNP, Brazil) for digitalizing historical documents in Rio de Janeiro and Luanda. Her current research focuses on slave trade and African Diaspora in the period from 1680 to 1720.

2001-2002

Alba Maria Zaluar is a professor of anthropology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where she also advises the mayor of the city. While at Stanford, she taught a course entitled "Economic and Social Perspectives on Urban Violence in Latin America." Her work focuses on poverty, youth, and violence in Latin America, on which she has published numerous books and articles. Professor Zaluar earned her Ph.D. in Urban Anthropology from the University of São Paulo.

2000-2001

Simon Schwartzman directs the Center for Social Research in Rio de Janeiro. He teaches at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and is also professor on leave at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is the chairman of the research group on the sociology of science and technology of the International Sociological Association, a former president of the Brazilian Sociological Association, and was president of Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) from 1994 to 1998. His earlier work dealt with questions of political change in a historical and comparative perspective, with special emphasis on Brazil. More recently, he has worked with the sociological and political dimensions of the production of knowledge in science, technology and education. While at Stanford, Professor Schwartzman taught a class on Brazilian social history.

1998-1999

José Murilo de Carvalho is a professor of political science and history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has held numerous posts in Brazil and international organizations, including president of the Social Science Advisory Committee at the Ford Foundation. His research examines the historical development of citizenship in Brazil and the process of nation-building in Latin America throughout the nineteenth century. Professor de Carvalho taught a course on the construction of citizenship in Brazil during the winter quarter, followed by a course on nation-building in Latin America in the spring.

1997-1998

Milton Santos is a professor emeritus of philosophy, letters, and human sciences, also at the Universidade de Sao Paulo. Santos taught a seminar on Latin American urbanization, participated in the Center's working group on Brazil, and worked with Stanford students and faculty. His research focuses on economic and urban development in Latin America, industrialization, and globalization. He has published more than 40 books and 300 articles in Portuguese, French, English, and Spanish; has taught at universities in Peru, Venezuela, Tanzania, Canada, and France; and is the recipient of numerous international awards.

1996-1997

Jose Goldemberg is a professor of physics at the Universidade de São Paulo's Instituto de Electrotécnica. An expert on environment and security issues, he is a former Rector of the Universidade de São Paulo and has held posts as Minister of Education and Minister of Science and Technology in Brazil. As Nabuco Visiting Professor, Goldemberg led a special interdisciplinary seminar on energy, the environment, and development during the fall and winter quarters. Professor Goldemberg has also served as visiting professor at the International Academy of the Environment in Geneva, Switzerland.