Notes on contributors

José M. Arruti is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Campinas – UNICAMP, a public university of the state of São Paulo; researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning – CEBRAP/Núcleo Afro; and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq. His research revolves around indigenous people and traditional Black communities, focusing on ethnicity, memory, education, territory and mobility, at the interface between history, demography and law. He has a doctorate in social anthropology from the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ). His doctoral thesis was awarded the Ford Foundation/CEAB – Afro-Brazilian Research Centre prize in 2003, and the book that resulted from the thesis, Mocambo: Antropologia e história do processo de formação quilombola (Mocambo: Anthropology and History of the Quilombola Formation Process), was published in 2006 by the ANPOCS – National Association for Research in Social Science.

Eduardo Dullo is an associate professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he is also the director of the Religious Studies Centre (Núcleo de Estudos da Religião) and editor of the journal Debates do NER. Dullo is a productivity research fellow of CNPq (the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (2015) and University of Edinburgh (2019), and a 2015 fellow of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry of the New School for Social Research. His work has been featured in journals such as Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS), Mana and Novos Estudos – CEBRAP among others, and is forthcoming both in Religion and in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR). He has been researching the formation of Brazilian secularity over the twentieth century and the entanglement of religion, politics and educational projects. His current research project aims at comparing the formation of Brazilian and Turkish secularity on matters of politics of education towards gender, family and morality. 

Jeff Garmany is senior lecturer in Latin American studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He completed his BA in anthropology at the University of Colorado, and his MA and PhD in geography at the University of Arizona. Before joining the University of Melbourne, he held an appointment at King’s College London in the Department of Geography and the King’s Brazil Institute. His research is based in the fields of urban studies, political geography, critical development and Latin American/Brazilian studies. His publications include Understanding Contemporary Brazil, co-authored with Anthony Pereira (Routledge, 2019), along with numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Katerina Hatzikidi is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory project at the University of Tübingen. She is also research affiliate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, and associate fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London. Her work explores, among other things, questions of political and religious transformations, and has been featured in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Bulletin of Latin American Studies and the International Journal of Human Rights. She has lectured and tutored at the School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography (University of Oxford), at the Human Rights Consortium (University of London), and at universities in Brazil and Greece.

Thaisa Held is a professor at the College of Law and International Relations at the Federal University of Grande Dourados. She holds a doctorate in law, specialising in human rights, from the Federal University of Pará and a master’s degree in agricultural/environmental law from the Federal University of Mato Grosso. She is the leader of the Fight Research Group Across the Land, which researches human rights violations of quilombola communities related to the non-titration of their lands.

David Lehmann is emeritus reader in social science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Postwar Period (1990), Struggle for the Spirit: Popular Culture and Religious Transformation in Brazil and Latin America (1996) and The Prism of Race: The Ideology and Politics of Affirmative Action in Brazil (2018). Other publications include Remaking Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas (with Batia Siebzehner, 2006) and (as editor) The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America (2016). His next book will be entitled After the Decolonial. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Brasília and São Paulo, at the Universidade Federal da Bahia and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Graziella Moraes Silva is associate professor in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. She is also affiliated to the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA) and to the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Inequality (NIED) at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She is one of the authors of Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Her work has been featured in journals such as Socio-Economic Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Journal of Latin American Studies.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is senior professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) and visiting professor at Princeton University, where she was previously Global Scholar (until 2018). She has published several books, including Retrato em branco e preto (1987), O espectáculo das raças (1993), As barbas do imperador (1998), A longa viagem da biblioteca dos reis (2002), O sol do Brasil (2008), Um enigma chamado Brasil (with André Botelho, 2009), Brasil: Uma biografia (with Heloisa Starling, 2015), Dicionário da escravidão e liberdade (with Flavio Gomes, 2018), Lima Barreto. Triste visionário (2018) and Sobre o autoritarismo brasileiro (2019). She has received several literary awards, among them the Jabuti (seven times), the APCA Award (three times), the National Library Award and the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (Anpocs) Book of the Year Award in 2019. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2006–7) and the John Carter Brown Library (2007). She has been a visiting professor at Oxford, Leiden and Brown Universities, Tinker Professor at Columbia University (2008) and a member of the Harvard Brazilian Office (2008–12). She received the Comenda do Mérito Científico in 2010, and is a member of the American committee of Human Rights Watch. She writes regularly in Brazilian newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo, Globo and Nexo, for which she has written a column since 2016. Since 2015 she has been assistant curator for histories at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

Camila Rocha is a political scientist and researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). Her doctoral thesis, ‘Menos Marx Mais Mises’: uma gênese da nova direita brasileira, 2006–2018, received the award for best doctoral thesis from the Brazilian Association of Political Science (2017–19). Her research interests are political culture, political behaviour and qualitative methods. Among her publications are: As direitas nas redes e nas ruas: a crise política no Brasil (co-editor, with Esther Solano, 2019), and The Brazilian New Right and the Election of Jair Bolsonaro (with Esther Solano, forthcoming).

Jessica Sklair is a research fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge and an associate fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of London. She has a PhD in anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017) and has held postdoctoral fellowships at ILAS and the University of Sussex (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018–19). Her work explores elite philanthropy and the changing role of the private sector in international development in Brazil and the UK. She has carried out ethnographic research on the growth of philanthrocapitalism, the role played by philanthropy in supporting processes of inheritance and family business succession in elite families, and the rise of impact investing and associated processes of financialisation in the Brazilian philanthropy sector.

Gabriel Soares has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Brasília (UnB). He has conducted fieldwork in the Federal District and the Purus and Madeira river valleys, principally with the Tah-fu-iai Fulni-ô, Madihadeni, Apurinã and Maraguá peoples. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Museu Nacional – PPGAS/MN.

Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos is the director of the Brazilian Studies Programme and lecturer at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research focuses are on politics in Brazil and cities and citizenship. She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), and co-editor of two books with Manchester University Press on Urban Transformations and Public Health in the Emergent City (2020) and African Cities and Collaborative Futures (2021). Her articles have been published in journals such as Ethnography, Politics and Gender, Nature Scientific Data, Nature Human Behaviour and Contemporary Social Sciences.

Taily Terena is an indigenous woman from the Terena Nation, Brazil. She is a climate activist who fights for indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights. She is part of CONAMI – National Council of Indigenous Women – and as an anthropologist she studies the history of her people through grandmothers’ (elder women’s) perspectives. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Brasília (UnB) and is currently a master’s student in anthropology at the Museu Nacional – PPGAS/MN.

João Tikuna graduated in anthropology from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) in 2017. He was secretary of the Magüta Museum (2018) and event coordinator for FUNAI’s (Fundação Nacional do Índio – Brazil’s agency responsible for indigenous affairs) regional office of the Upper and Mid-Solimões, conducting multiple technical visits to indigenous communities as well as acting as a member of the evaluation committee for UFAM. Currently he is a master’s student in social anthropology for the Museu Nacional – PPGAS/MN.