Over the past seven years, I have served as co-director of the Duke Brazil Initiative, the Global Brazil Humanities Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute (2014-17), and as faculty co-director of Bass Connections Project (2015-19) on "The Cost of Opportunity: Social Mobility and Higher Education in Rio's Baixada Fluminense" I have over the years served as Director of the Duke's Latin American Center and the Carolina-Duke Consortium, Treasurer of our national interdisciplinary organization LASA, and co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Reviewįor a five year term that ended in June 2017.
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(2004 2002 in Brazil), and a coedited volume The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
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(1992/1995 in Brazil), Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture My earlier books include The Brazilian Workers ABC My newest monograph is forthcoming in October 2020 under the title Lula and his Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil
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Since 1979, I have been studying class, race, and politics in Brazil from UNC Press zil, Latin America, and beyond with 48 refereed articles and four books. from Amherst College, I received my doctorate at Yale in 1985 under Brazilian historian Emília Viotti da Costa. I am a professor of History at Duke University with secondary appointments in African and African-American as well as International Comparative Studies in Durham North Carolina.