Rutgers University–Newark
- Sandy Placido
- Assistant Professor
- Department: History
- Research Interests: Latino History; Hispanic Caribbean
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- Email Address: sandy.placido@rutgers.edu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Kimberly Da Costa Holton
- Associate Professor
- Department: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Research Interests: Music, migration and politics; 20th century Portuguese and Brazilian literature, performance theory, urban festivity, urban ethnography, migration and memory studies, oral history, theories of globalism, nation, diaspora and space.
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- Email Address: kholton@newark.rutgers.edu
- Degree: Ph.D. Northwestern University
- Publications:
Community, Culture & The Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard
Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folclóricos from Lisbon to Newark
- Melissa Valle
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Sociology and Anthropology
- Department(s):
- Department: African American and African Studies
- Research Interests: Race & ethnicity ;Urban & spatial sociology; Cultural sociology Economic sociology; The African/Black Diaspora (with a focus on Afrolatinidad in the Americas); Ethnographic and visual methods
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- Email Address: melissa.valle@rutgers.edu
- Degree: Ph.D. Columbia University
- Isadora Grevan
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Research Interests: Brazilian literature, Brazilian theater, performance studies, dramaturgy, Latin American theater, Latin American studies, Portuguese world, Lusophone African literature, Comparative Literature, gender studies, cinema
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- Email Address: isadora.grevan@rutgers.edu
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Publications:
O Fetiche: Estratégias Relacionais no Teatro de Nelson Rodrigues
Performance of Fetishism, Body Parts and Marginalities in Modern Brazilian Theater
- Sean T. Mitchell
- Associate Professor
- Department: Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Newark
- Research Interests: My ethnographically-based work focuses on the politics of inequality, particularly in Brazil
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- Email Address: seantm@rutgers.edu
- Degree: Global Urban Studies/Urban Systems Ph.D
- Publications:
Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil - News Items / Announcements:
- Professor Sean T. Mitchell on Brazil's Bolsonaro (628)