he/him
Social Sciences Division
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate
Crown College Classroom Building
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Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Ph.D. Candidate in Latin America and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
- M.A. Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (2024)
- M.A. Education, University of Porto, Portugal (2021) Thesis: Seres e Saberes – Outridades e Violências: Contributos decoloniais para a desconstrução de privilégios.
- B.A. History, Federal University of Pernambuco UFPE, Brazil (2015)
Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) Experience:
- Rasanblaj Lab Studio (Funded by UCSC - Feminist Studies Department - Fall 2023 - Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse)
- Global Latinidades (Funded by UCSC - Graduate Studies Department - Summer 2023; 2024; Fall 2024 - Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Cecília Rivas )
- Monitoring Information Disorder in the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Elections Funded by UCSC Institute for Social Transformation Sprout Grant - Summer 2022 - Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Patrícia Pinho)
Teaching Assistant Experience:
- Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies;
- Contemporary Brazil;
- Drugs, Addiction, and Recovery in the Américas;
- Race and Mobility;
- The Right to Health: An Introduction to Latin American Social Medicine.
Whiteness, Privilege, Racializing Affect, Political Generations, Latin America, Brazilian Northeast.
My research explores the contours and shifting meanings of whiteness in the Américas, with a focus on how it is uniquely constructed and experienced across Brazil, particularly in the Brazilian Northeast. While local differences exist, several studies have uncovered common threads of whiteness as both an identity and a system of practices that confer power across the hemisphere. My work seeks to investigate these convergences and distinctions by examining whiteness among white, heterosexual, middle-class men from the Northeast who, as young adults, witnessed Brazil’s 2013 protests, the intense political polarization, the rise of the Far-Right, and Lula’s recent return to the presidency. Through this analysis, I aim to deepen critical discussions on race, privilege, and power in the Américas, contributing to the fields of Latin American Studies of Whiteness and Brazilian Studies of Whiteness.
- Latin American and Latino Studies Department Outstanding TA Award (Spring, 2024)
- Latin American and Latino Studies Department QE Fellowship (Winter 2024)
- Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Américas Graduate Student Grant (Fall 2023) - Project: “Political Generations and Racializing
Affects: Whiteness in a Decade of Political Upheaval in Brazil (2013-2023)”
- Graduate Dean's Research Travel Grant (Summer 2023)
- Graduate Student Researcher - Special Project Monitoring the Information Disorder in the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Elections (Sprout Grant Institute for Social Transformation UCSC - Summer 2022)
- Chancellor's fellowship UCSC (Academic Year 2021/22)
Panel Presentations
"Whiteness and Racial Privilege in the Nordeste." XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). April 3-6, 2024. San Diego, CA.
"Monitoring Racism on Twitter in the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Campaign." UCSC - UNICAMP Symposium: The Far-Right and Democracy: Brazil and the Américas. September 28, 2023. Santa Cruz, CA.