Brazil

LASA Brazil Section Annual Report 2022-2023

Paulo Andrade and John French Co-Chairs, LASA Brazil Section

Summary of the business meeting

During the recent virtual congress of LASA 2023, the Executive Committee of the Brazil Section held the annual business meeting on Thrusday May 25th, at 17:15 Pacific Time, and was attended by about 15 members of the Section at Vancouver Convention Centre. Perhaps, due to the high dollar and airfare prices, we did not have many participants in the event this year. However, we still had a productive meeting. All members present participated and spoke, clearing up doubts about how the work of the Brazil section works. In spite of that, Adam Joseph Shellhorse, our Treasurer and I who lead the meeting thanked the judges that helped us choose the winners of this year’s prizes, a process that was again. Also congratulated three Professors distinguished with a LASA Inscription Grant with All-Access pass:

• Luz Horne (Universidad de San Andrés)
• Gonzalo Aguiar (Universidae de Buenos Aires) both live in Argentina and
• Diana Klinger (Universidade Federal Fluminense) who lives in Brazil.

We mention the panels promoted by the Section and inform that the Section awarded the participants of the panel Da resistência da Sociologia à luta pelos direitos das mulheres no século XXI", organized by Prof. Dr. Eva Alterman with USD$ 500, 00 for each of the four participants.

Da resistência da Sociologia à luta pelos direitos das mulheres no século XXI

Presenter(s):

Session Organizer: Eva Blay, USP

Chair: Martha Zapata Galindo, Freie Universität Berlin

• Da resistência da Sociologia à luta pelos direitos das mulheres no século XXI Eva Blay, USP;
• Diagnosis sobre igualdad de gênero y herramientas para el desarrollo de politicas de igualdad Martha Zapata Galindo, , Freie Universität Berlin
• Justiça de gênero e direitos Humanos Patricia Cabrera, , WIDE;

and congratulated the panels sponsored by the Section. The panels included:

"Brazilian Anatomies of Whiteness: Heredity, Heritage, and Futures of the Past"

Presenter(s):

Session Organizer: Patricia Martins Marcos, , University of California, San Diego

Chair: John Mundell, , Washington University in St. Louis

• Redemption through Whiteness: “Miscegenation” and the Long History of White Patriarchal Power in (Post)Colonial Brazil Patricia Martins Marcos, University of California, San Diego
• Branquitude e descendência africana na família de santo Jamie Andreson, , Pennsylvania State University
• Boneca Eva: Amusing Anatomies and Nostalgia of White Womanhood in Brazil John Mundell, , Washington University in St. Louis

Perspectivas temporais na poesia brasileira: continuidades e mudanças do moderno até o contemporâneo"

Presenter(s):

Discussant: Celia Pedrosa, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Session Organizer: Viviana Bosi, Universidade de São Paulo

Chair: Paulo Cesar Andrade da Silva, São Paulo State University

• "O último dia do tempo": imagens de noite e amanhecer em A Rosa do Povo (1945) de Carlos Drummond de Andrade Luiza Franco Moreira, Binghamton University
• Tempo em dissolução: imagens poéticas sob violência política (Brasil ditatorial, anos 1964-1985) Beatriz Vieira, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Memória em avaria: temporalidade na poesia épico-lírica de Salgado Maranhão Paulo Cesar Andrade da Silva, São Paulo State University
• Aspectos da temporalidade na poesia brasileira contemporânea Viviana Bosi, Universidade de São Paulo

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, our Treasurer, invited everyone to participate in the Section's happy hour, which took place on May 26, at Cuchilo Restaurante, 261, Powell Street. Vancouver, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

LASA Brazil Section 2023 Prizes

As in previous years, the Executive Committee selected three members of the Brazil Section, based on their research interests and academic experience, to participate in one of the six selection committees destined to choose the best book, best article and best dissertation in both, Humanities (Antonio Candido Prizes) and Social Sciences (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prizes. Once created, each member of the committees read the submitted works, ranked them according to a common rubric, and then deliberated among themselves to choose a winner. The results were the following:

• MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS / BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Heather F. Roller (Colgate University), Clément A. Akassi (Howard University), Michael Touchton (University of Miami).

Winner:

Antonio José Bacelar da Silva (University of Arizona) Between Black and Brown: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil (Rutgers University Press)

Honorable Mention:

Seth Garfield (University of Texas at Austin)

Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (University of North Carolina Press)

• MELHOR LIVRO EM HUMANIDADES / BEST BOOK IN HUMANITIES – (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Patricia Vieira (University of Coimbra), Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), Rebecca Atencio (Tulane University)

Winner:

Adele Nelson (University of Texas at Austin)

Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil (University of California Press)

Honorable Mention:

Anadelia Romo (Texas State University)

Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Press)

• MELHOR TESE EM CIENCIAS SOCIAIS/ BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Kathleen Millar (Brown University), Gray Fielding Kidd (Villanova University)

Winner:

Ana Luiza Morais Soares (University of Illinois Chicago)

Surviving the Concrete Jungle: Indigenous Children in the Brazilian Amazon (1860-1910)

• MELHOR TESE EM HUMANIDADES /BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Rex Nielson (Brigham Young University), César Braga Pinto (Northwestern University)

Winner:

Alice Hereen (Institute Federal of Minas Gerais – IFMG)) The Art of the Present in the Country of the Future: Remediations of Brasília in Contemporary Art 

Honorable Mention (two):

Luisa Valle (City University of New York) The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811 to 1945

Travis Knoll (University of North Carolina-Charlotte) Liberate, Inculturate, Educate! Brazilian Black Catholics, Racial Justice, and Affirmative Action from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília

• MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAS/ BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE

Presented by the Brazil section

Jurors: Ian Carrillo (University of Oklahoma), Handerson Joseph – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Paulo Gustavo Pellegrino Correa (Universidade Federal do Amapá)

Winner:

David Thompson:(Simon Fraser University)

Evangelical Christianity as Infrastructure in Brazil’s Penal System. Journal of Latin American Studies, 54(3), 457-479.

Honorable Mention:

Luciana de Souza Leão (University of Michigan)

Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico American Journal of Sociology.Volume 128 Number 1 (July 2022): 1–46.

• MELHOR ARTIGO EM HUMANIDADES/ BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Cacilda Bomfim (Federal Institute of Maranhão – IFMG) Diana Klinger (Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Krista Brune (Penn State University)

Winner:

Andrew G. Britt (University of North Carolina School of the Arts) Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo’s ‘Black Zone’, 1930s–1940s. Journal of Latin American Studies (2022), 1–32.

Honorable Mention: Oscar de la Torre (The University of North Carolna at Charlotte), The Well That Wept Blood - Ghostlore, Haunted Waterscapes, and the Politics of Quilombo Blackness in Amazonia (Brazil). The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1635–1658

LASA Brazil Section Annual Report 2021-2022

Paulo Andrade and Mónica González García Co-Chairs, LASA Brazil Section

Summary of the business meeting

During the recent virtual congress of LASA 2022, the Executive Committee of the Brazil Section held the annual business meeting on Friday May 6th, at 18:00 Pacific Time, and was attended by about 10 members of the Section. We believe this low participation was caused by the time difference because, by the time the meeting began, it was 22:00 in Brazil. In spite of that, we thanked the judges that helped us choose the winners of this year’s prizes, a process that was again challenging due to the second year of the pandemics. We also congratulated the two Brazilian Professors distinguished with a LASA Inscription Grant that enabled them to participate in the last Congress, Renan Nuernberger (Universidade de São Paulo) and Fábio Lucas (Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo); and we mentioned the panels sponsored by the Section. These panels included:

Formas do social e do político na literatura brasileira: polarizações modernas e contemporâneas

Session Organizer: Rebeca Errázuriz (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

Thursday, May 5th, 14 hrs Pacific Time

Uma pedagogia libertadora anti-racista na periferia urbana do Brasil: Experiências de ‘ensino-aprendizagem’ e co-produção de conhecimento conectando universidades, escolas e movimentos sociais

Session Organizer: Stephanie Reist (Stanford University)

Friday, May 6th, 12 hrs Pacific Time

Poéticas Afro-ameríndias: Corpos insurgentes em performances de (re)existência

Session Organizer: Benjamin Junge (State University of New York)

Saturday, May 7th, 10 hrs. Pacific Time

Additionally, we congratulated the former students that won the Best Dissertation Prize, Fábio Rodrigo Penna (Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro) and Pamela Katia Sertzen (Syracuse University) because they both attended the meeting. We ended the meeting announcing we would again congratulate the winners of the Brazil Section Prize via email, and that we would make a call for nominations to choose the new Presidents and members of the Executive Committee of the Brazil Section. We sent an email to invite our members to send their nominations on May 15th and also sent a reminder on May 29th. The deadline for these submissions is Monday May 30th and the elections will be held next June 12th.

Results of the section’s elections during 2021

This past year we sponsor the election of a new Executive Committee member. It was elected Jacob Blanc (Edinburgh University, Scotland). The results were the following:

Jacob Blanc: 46 votes

The rest of the Committee remained in their positions:

Paulo Andrade, Co-Chair (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo 

Mónica González García, Co-Chair (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Treasurer (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Temple University 

Natali Costa, EC (2021-2022) Universidade Federal do Amapá 

Nelson Cerqueira, EC (2021-2022) Full Professor, Universidade de Bahia

Barbara Simões (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 

Activities and plans for the coming term

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, our Treasurer, announced that we have sufficient budget to offer travel grants during the next version of the Congress. The Executive Committee will also suggest the new board to organize a social meeting during the Congress in order to strengthen the academic ties among the members after two years of online encounters. We hope next year we can meet and discuss in person.

LASA Brazil Section 2021 Prizes

As in previous years, the Executive Committee selected three members of the Brazil Section, based on their research interests and academic experience, to participate in one of the six selection committees destined to choose the best book, best article and best dissertation in both, Humanities (Antonio Candido Prizes) and Social Sciences (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prizes). Due to the low number of submissions to the Prize for the Best M.A. Thesis, this year we agreed to eliminate this category. This process was once again difficult due to the complex sanitary situation. Once created, each member of the committees read the submitted works, ranked them according to a common rubric, and then deliberated among themselves to choose a winner. The results were the following:

MELHOR LIVRO EM HUMANIDADES/ BEST BOOK IN HUMANITIES – (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: Pedro Meira Monteiro (Princeton University, USA), Florencia Garramuño (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Paul Christopher Johnson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Winner: Viviana Bosi, Universidade de São Paulo

Poesia em risco. Itinerários para aportar nos anos 1970 e além (Editora 34).

Honorable Mention: Larissa Alves de Lira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Pierre Monbeig e a formação da Geografia no Brasil (1925-1956). Uma geo-história dos saberes (Alameda).

MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS/ BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES –(SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: John D. French (Duke University), Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza (Universidade de São Paulo), Bryan McCann (Georgetown University)

Winner: Heather F. Roller, Colgate University

Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil (Stanford University Press).

Honorable Mention: Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State University

Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge University Press).

MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS/ BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES –(ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: Odile Cisneros (University of Alberta), Krista Brune (Pennsylvania State University), Diana Klinger (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Winner: Pedro Feitoza, Universidade Estadual de Paraná

“The Middle Line of Truth: Religious and Secular Ideologies in the Making of Brazilian Evangelical Thought, 1870–1930.” Modern Intellectual History, Nov. 2021, pp. 1–25.

Honorable mention: John C. Márquez, Colorado College “

Witnesses to Freedom: Paula’s Enslavement, Her Family’s Freedom Suit, and the Making of a Counterarchive in the South Atlantic World.” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 101, no. 2, May 2021, pp. 231–63.

Honorable mention: Daniel L. McDonald, Brown University

"The Origins of Informality in a Brazilian Planned City: Belo Horizonte, 1889-1900.” Journal of Urban History, vol. 47, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 29–49.

MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS/ BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES - (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: Lúcia K. Stumpf (Universidade de São Paulo), Ian Carrillo (University of Oklahoma), Antoine Acker (University of Zurich)

Winner: Luísa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil.” Environmental Humanities 13, 2 (November 2021): 323–347.

Honorable mention: Rebecca Neaera Abers. Universidade de Brasília

"Institutions, Networks and Activism Inside the State: Women’s health and environmental policy in Brazil." Critical Policy Studies 15, no. 3 (2021): 330-349.

MELHOR TESE EM HUMANIDADES/ BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES – (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo (Providence College), Jamie Lee Anderson (Pennsylvania State University), Maria Pugliese (Universidad Nacional de Luján)

Winner: Fábio Rodrigo Penna, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

O pensamento espiral em romances turbilhonares: escritas do grito, identidade entrecruzilhada e paisagens afrocircinadas.

Honorable Mention: Gray Fielding Kidd, Duke University

Surrendering to the Streets in Mid-Century Recife: The Living Legacies of Slavery in Black and White.

MELHOR TESE EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS/ BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Júris/ Jurors: Benjamin H. Bradlow (Harvard University), Guillermo Toral (Vanderbilt University)

Winner: Pamela Katia Sertzen, Syracuse University

Contesting Erasure: The Museu da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Honorable Mention: Luísa Reis Castro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vectors of Health: Epidemics, Ecologies, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science in Brazil.

LASA Brazil Section Annual Report 2020-2021

Paulo Andrade and Mónica González García

Co-Chairs, LASA Brazil Section

Summary of the business meeting

During the last congress, the Executive Committee of the Brazil Section held the annual business meeting on May 27th, at 19 EDT, and was attended by about 45 members of the Section. We began by thanking the judges that helped us choose the winners of this year’s prizes, a process that was particularly challenging due to the pandemics, and congratulated the panels sponsored by the Section. The panels included:

Women Filmmakers in Brazil since the 1990s

Organizador do painel: Jack A. Draper III

Quinta-feira 10 horas do Brasil, 9 horas EDT

Profissionalismo militar, engajamento político e autonomia em momentos de crise

Organizadora do painel: Maria Celina d’Araujo

Sexta-feira meiodia do Brasil, 11 horas EDT

Poéticas Afro-ameríndias: Corpos insurgentes em performances de (re)existência

Organizadora de painel: Renata de Lima Silva

Quarta-feira 10 horas do Brasil, 9 horas EDT

Centrality in My Name: Mademoiselle Senegal Dialogues with Señor Biohó

Organizadora do painel: Yvonne Captain

Sábado 16 horas do Brasil, 15 horas EDT

We also read and congratulated the students and scholars distinguished with the LASA Brazil Section Prize, and we closed the meeting with a poetry reading by Professor Nelson Cerqueira, a member of our Executive Committee. Among the conclusions, we agreed to discuss a way to open a space for publication after one student expressed her concern due to the closure of an important academic journal in Brazil, entitled Revista de Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. We will think of a online journal in which the members of the Brazil Section can participate as editors.

Results of the section’s elections

This past year we did not sponsor any election because the Executive Committee had been recently elected. Currently, the EC is composed of the following members:

Paulo Andrade, Co-Chair (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo

Mónica González García, Co-Chair (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Treasurer (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Temple University

Natali Costa, EC (2021-2022) Universidade Federal do Amapá

Nelson Cerqueira, EC (2021-2022) Full Professor, Universidade de Bahia

Benjamin Junge, EC (2020-2021) Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Newpaltz

Barbara Simões (2021-2022) Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 

Activities and plans for the coming term

In addition to study the possibility of opening an online academic journal on Brazilian Studies, we intend to use the budget of the section to support students and scholars from Brazil that plan to travel to the next LASA congress in San Francisco. We will also distinguish the best books, articles, M.A. theses and dissertations published during the current year. Finally, if the next congress is not online, we will organize a more informal gathering in a restaurant so the members of the Brazil Section can socialize in person.

LASA Brazil Section 2021 Prizes

As in previous years, the Executive Committee selected three members of the Brazil Section, based on their research interests and academic experience, to participate in one of the eight selection committees destined to choose the best book, best article, best dissertation, and best M.A. thesis in both, Humanities (Antonio Candido Prizes) and Social Sciences (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prizes). This process was particularly difficult this year due to the complex sanitary situation. Once created, each member of the committees read the submitted works, ranked them according to a common rubric, and then deliberated among themselves to choose a winner. The results were the following:

BEST BOOK IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR LIVRO EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Leila Lehnen (Brown University), Gustavo PT Furtado (Duke University), Alessandra Santos (University of British Columbia)

Winner: Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan

Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (University of Chicago Press)

Honorable Mention: Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago

Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (Northwestern University Press)

Honorable Mention: Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds

Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge)

BEST BOOK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR LIVRO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: James N. Green (Brown University), Jacob Blanc (University of Edinburgh)

Winner: John D. French, Duke University

Lula and his Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (University of North Carolina Press)

Honorable Mention: Brian Wampler, Boise State University; Natasha Borges Sugiyama, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Michael Touchton, University of Miami

Democracy at Work: Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil (Cambridge University Press)

Honorable Mention: Marília Bueno de Araújo Ariza, University of São Paulo (USP) Mães infames, filhos venturosos (Alameda Editorial)

BEST ARTICLE IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Julio Mendonça (Casa das Rosas), Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), Mari Rodríguez Binnie (Williams College)

Winner: Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple University

“The Verbivocovisual Revolution: Anti-Literature, Affect, Politics, and World Literature in Augusto de Campos.” CR: The New Centennial Review 20.1 (Spring 2020): 147-184.

Honorable mention: Odile Cisneros, University of Alberta

“Augusto de Campos’s Outro: The Limits of Authorship and the Limits of Legibility.” Journal of Lusophone Studies 5.1 (Spring 2020): 38-63.

BEST ARTICLE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR ARTIGO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: Graziela Morães Silva (The Graduate Institute Geneva), Valéria Mendonça de Macedo (UNIFESP), Rita Biason (UNESP/Franca)

Winner: Antoine Acker, University of Zurich

“A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930-1975).” Past & Present 249.1 (November 2020): 167–211.

Honorable mention: Ian Carrillo, University of Oklahoma

“Racialized Organizations and Color-Blind Racial Ideology in Brazil.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7.1 (2020): 56-70.

BEST DISSERTATION IN HUMANITIES – MELHOR TESE EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Raquel Campos (Universidade de Brasília), Sarah J. Townsend (Pennsylvania State University), Eyal Weinberg (Florida Atlantic University)

Winner: Jamie Lee Anderson, Pennsylvania State University

Mothers in the Family of Saints: Gender and Race in the Making of Afro-Brazilian Heritage (University of Michigan)

Honorable Mention: Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo, Tulane University

From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present (University of Minnesota)

BEST DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – MELHOR TESE EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS (SÉRGIO BUARQUE DE HOLANDA PRIZE)

Jurors: Lorena Féres da Silva Telles (Universidade de São Paulo), Maíra Kubik Mano (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Paul Sneed (Seoul National University)

Winner: David C. Thompson, University of California, Berkeley

“Resocialize to Conquer the Future”: Incarceration and Reform in Rio de Janeiro (University of California, Berkeley)

Honorable Mention: Guillermo Toral, Vanderbilt University

The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Honorable Mention: Benjamin Bradlow, Harvard University

Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016 (Brown University)

BEST MA THESIS IN HUMANITIES - MELHOR DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO EM HUMANIDADES (ANTONIO CANDIDO PRIZE)

Jurors: Benjamin Junge (State University of New York at New Paltz), Juliana Santini (UNESP/Araquara), Juliana Pimenta Attie (Universidade Federal de Alfenas)

Winner: Daniela Nascimento (UNESP/Araraquara)

Carolina Maria de Jesus e a escrita de si como lugar de memória e resistência

Honorable Mention: Eduardo Monteiro Burkle (Queen’s University Belfast)

When Forgetting is Dangerous Transitional justice, Collective Remembrance and Brazil’s Shift to Far-Right Populism

LASA Brazil Section Report 2019-2020

LASA Brazil Section Annual Report (2019-2020)

19 June 2020

1). The Executive Committee of the Brazil Section for 2019-2020 consisted of the following members:

Nelson Cerqueira, Co-Chair in Brazil

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Co-Chair

Mónica González García, Treasurer

Benjamin Junge

Alessandra Santos

Paulo Andrade

Ana Amelia Melo

2). The business meeting took place on Sunday, May 15th at 7 p.m., with 15 members present. Section initiatives were discussed and awards announced.

3). The results of Section elections, which were conducted electronically from June 9-June 18, were as follows:

Total Votes: 83

• Paulo Andrade, Co-Chair in Brazil Sole candidate and automatically elected
• Mónica González García, Co-Chair Sole candidate and automatically elected
• Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Treasurer Sole candidate and automatically elected
• E.C. (three newly elected Executive Committee members)

1. Natalie Fabiana da Costa e Silva 57
2. Bárbara Inês Ribeiro Simões Daibert 53
3. Nelson Cerqueira 48
4. Jacob Blanc 46
5. Isis Barra Costa 45

4). Registration Awards

This year the Section awarded 3 registration awards––$275 per award––for a total of $825. The winners of the award were as follows:

• Ana Claúdia Castilho Barone
• Jean Sales
• Marcos Virgílio da Silva

5). LASA Brazil Section 2019, Section Prizes

Best Book in the Humanities - Melhor Livro em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Charles A. Perrone, Robert Henry Moser, Ana Paulina Lee

Gustavo PT Furtado (Duke University), Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention:

Jessica Graham (UC San Diego), Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil (University of California Press, 2019).

And

Jacob Blanc (University of Edinburgh), Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019)

Best Book Prize in Social Sciences - Melhor Livro em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize)

Judges: Anne Hanley and Silvana Mariano

Rebecca Tarlau (Pennsylvania State University), Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Honorable Mention:

Christopher Gibson (Simon Fraser University), Movement-Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Best Article in Humanities - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Humanas (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Ashley Brock, Gustavo PT Furtado, and Isabel Gómez

Mari Rodríguez Binnie (Williams College), “Dissident Bodies: Materialising Xerographic Experimentation in São Paulo 1970-1985.” Third Text 33.6: (2019): 745-760.

Honorable Mention:

Pedro Rabelo Erber (Cornell University). “Beautiful Money; or, What Can Contemporary Art Teach Us About the Neoliberal Economy?” Revista Hispánica Moderna 72.2 (2019): 149-159

Best Article in Social Sciences - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Charles Klein, Karina Kato, and Natalia S. Bueno

Graziella Morães Silva (The Graduate Institute Geneva); Luciana Souza Leão (University of Michigan, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow); Bárbara Grillo (PPGSA/UFRJ; The City University of New York)

“Seeing Whites: Views of Black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43.4 (2019): 632-651.

Honorable Mention:

Stefanie Israel de Souza (Tulane University, CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow)

“Pacification of Rio's Favelas and the ‘Pacification of the Pacification Police’: The Role of Coordinating Brokerage in Police Reform.” Sociological Forum 34.2 (June 2019): 458-482.

Best Dissertation in Humanities – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Dain Borges, Rebeca Errázuriz, Thaís Waldman

Lúcia Klück Stumpf (Ph.D. Universidade de São Paulo), Fragmentos de guerra: Imagens e visualidades da guerra contra o Paraguai (1865-1881). Ph.D., Antropologia Social.

Honorable Mention:

Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Ph.D., St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford), A Brazilian at the BBC War-Front: Entertainment, Propaganda and Modernism in Antônio Callado’s Radio Dramas for the Latin American Service (1941-1947). Ph.D. in Modern Languages.

And

Eyal Weinberg (University of Texas at Austin), Tending to the Body Politic: Doctors, Military Repression, and Transitional Justice in Brazil (1961-1988). Ph.D. in History.

Best Dissertation in Social Sciences – Melhor Tese em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Jessica Jerome, Karina Biondi, and Pedro Mendes Loureiro

Lorena Féres da Silva Telles (Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo), Teresa Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam grávidas: maternidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro (século XIX). Ph.D, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH)

List of submissions 2020

Best Book Award Humanities (Antonio Candido Prize).

1) Gustavo Furtado, Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil (Oxford University Press)

2) Jacob Blanc, Before the Flood The Itaipu Dam (Duke University Press)

3) Jessica Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy (University of California Press)4) Earl Fitz, Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory (Bucknell University Press)

5) Patricia Lino, Manoel de Barros e a poesia cínica (Relicário Edições)

6) Ana Hofling, Staging Brazil Choreographies of Capoeira (Wesleyan University Press)

7) Paul Sneed, Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia in Brazilian Gangster Funk (Seoul National University Press)

8) Américo Freire, Democracia brasileira em foco: historiografia, atores e proposições (Editora Sagga)

9) Gustavo Costa, A identidade brasileira por meio de imagens na obra Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma (Editora Gramma)

10) Dylon Robbins, Audible Geographies in Latin American (Palgrave)

Best Book Award in Social Sciences (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize).

1) Bersch, Katherine. When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

2) Bratman, Eve Z. Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development Politics in the Brazilian Amazon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

3) Gibson, Christopher. Movement Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

4) Ikeuchi, Suma. Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

5) Lima, Valesca. Participatory Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

6) Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys. The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

7) Oliveira, Joao Pachedo de. Exterminio y tutela: Procesos de formación de alteridades en el Brasil. San Martín: UNSAM EDITA, 2019.

8) Paiva, Gabriel Miranda Ilana. Juventude, Crime e Policia: vida e morte na periferia urbana. Curitiba: Editora CRV, 2019.

9) Rich, Jessica. State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

10) Santos, Andreza Aruscka de Souza. The Politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.

11) Santos, Sales Augusto dos. Gênero, Orientação Sexual, Raça e Classe: Violências contra estudantes no campus de uma universidade federal. Jundiaí, SP: Paco Editorial, 2019.

12) Tarlau, Rebecca. Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

LASA Brazil Section Annual Report (2018-19)

5 July 2019

1). The Executive Committee of the Brazil Section for 2019-20 consisted of the following members:

• Nelson Cerqueira, Co-Chair in Brazil
• Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Co-Chair
• Mónica González García, Treasurer
• Odile Cisneros
• Paulo Andrade
• Ana Amelia Melo

2). The business meeting took place on Sunday, May 26th at 9 a.m., with 25 members present. One issue discussed was to make sure that all members’ emails are current in the LASA data system. Section initiatives were also discussed and awards announced.

3). The results of Section elections, which were conducted electronically, were as follows: Total Votes: 35

1. Nelson Cerqueira, Co-Chair in Brazil (for 1 year)  Yes: 33 · No: 2

2. Mónica González García, Treasurer Yes: 34 · No: 1

3. E.C. (two newly elected Executive Committee members)

• Benjamin Junge: 26. Department of Anthropology State University of New York-New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, WSB 236 New Paltz, NY 12561 USA
•  Alessandra Santos: 24. Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus BuTo Rm 797 1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
• Felix Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues: 20

4. A review of the term activities and plans for the coming term.

By popular vote, this year the Section passed two initiatives regarding extending the possibility of receiving a travel award to all members and establishing a Best Master’s Thesis award in both Humanities and Social Sciences (see below). Second, the EC agreed to invite outside qualified judges to moderate the Best Book, Best Article, and Best Dissertation competitions. The external judges were first nominated and voted on by all EC members. Finally, the Section held its annual reception at the LASA International Congress in Boston, at Fogo de Chão, on Sunday, May 26th from 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Result of ballot initiatives 2019

I. When sufficient funds are available, offer partial travel awards on a competitive basis to current dues paying scholars whose papers have been accepted for presentation at LASA. The total amount granted will not exceed 22% of the Brazil Section’s reserve funds. Criteria for selection will be determined by members of the Executive Committee and will include quality and originality of the work presented, as well as financial need.

*Note: the previous cap for Section travel grants was 15%, and the grant was given to graduate students and independent and unemployed scholars.

Yes/Sim: 97% No/Não: 3%

II. Establish a Brazil Section Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in two categories -- Social Sciences and Humanities -- allowing authors of interdisciplinary or trans-disciplinary works to choose the category in which they wish their work to be judged. Beginning in 2019-2020, the Brazil Section will award two best Master’s thesis prizes. The Executive Committee shall reserve the option to combine categories if too few submissions are received to merit separate competitions in any given year.

Yes/Sim: 72% No/Não: 28%

5). Travel Awards

This year the Section awarded 7 travel awards––$400 per award––for a total of $2800.

The winners of the award were as follows:

1) Georgina Helena Lima Nunes, PROFESSOR DO MAGISTÉRIO SUPERIOR/ASSOC./TIT.

2) Camila Matos, Ph.D. Student

3) Renan Quinalha, Professor de Direito, lawyer and professor

4) Esther Solano, professora Universidade Federal de São Paulo

5) Leila Vieira, Ph.D. Student

6) Priscilla Peixoto, Professora

7) Chiara Del Gaudio, Professora da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

6). LASA Brazil Section 2018, Section Prizes Best Book in the Humanities - Melhor Livro em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Marshall C. Eakin, Christopher Dunn, Alessandra Santos

Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University),

Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press).

Honorable Mention:

Maite Conde (University of Cambridge),

Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (University of California Press)

And

César Braga-Pinto (Northwestern University),

A violência das letras: amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940) (EdUERJ)

Best Book Prize in Social Sciences - Melhor Livro em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize)

Judges: Sean T. Mitchell, Teresa Cribelli, and Carlos Eduardo Henning

Karina Biondi (Federal University of São Carlos),

Proibido roubar na quebrada: Território, hierarquia e lei no PCC (Editora Terceiro Nome)

Honorable Mention:

Kathleen M. Millar (Simon Fraser University),

Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump (Duke University Press)

And

Anne G. Hanley (Northern Illinois University),

The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930(University of Chicago Press)

Best Article in Humanities - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Humanas (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Mary Ann Mahony and Pedro Rabelo Erber

Isabel Gómez, (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Gómez, Isabel. “Anti-Surrealism? Augusto de Campos ‘Untranslates’ Spanish-American Poetry.” Mutatis Mutandis, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 376–399.

Honorable Mention:

César A. Braga-Pinto, (Northwestern University)

Braga-Pinto, César A. “From Abolitionism to Blackface: The Vicissitudes of Uncle Tom in Brazil.” Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational History of America’s Most Mutable Book, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova, U of Michigan P, 2018, pp. 225–257.

And

Lena Oak Suk, (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)

Suk, Lena Oak. “‘Only the Fragile Sex Admitted’: The Women’s Restaurant in 1920s São Paulo, Brazil.” Journal of Social History, vol. 51, no. 3, Spring 2018, pp. 592–620.

Best Article in Social Sciences - Melhor Artigo em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Cassia Roth, Fabrício H. Chagos Bastos, and Matthew Taylor

Charles H. Klein, (Portland State University); Sean T. Mitchell, (Rutgers University, Newark); and Benjamin Junge, (State University of New York-New Paltz)

Klein, Charles H., et al. “Naming Brazil’s Previously Poor: ‘New Middle Class’ as an Economic, Political, and Experiential Category.” Economic Anthropology, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 83– 95.

Honorable Mention:

Natália S. Bueno, (Emory University)

Bueno, Natália S. “Bypassing the Enemy: Distributive Politics, Credit Claiming, and Nonstate Organizations in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Mar. 2018, pp. 304–340.

Best Dissertation in Humanities – Melhor Tese em Humanidades (Antonio Candido Prize)

Judges: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, Leila Lehnen, Eli Lee Carter

Thaís Waldman (Universidade de São Paulo), Entre batismos e degolas: (des)caminhos bandeirantes em São Paulo

Honorable Mention

Andrew Graham Britt (Northwestern University), “I’ll Samba Someplace Else”: Constructing Identity and Neighborhood in São Paulo

Best Dissertation in Social Sciences – Melhor Tese em Ciências Sóciais (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda prize)

Judges: Ana Paula Camelo, Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, Laurie Denyer Willis

Meryleen Mena, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in São Paulo’s Criminal Justice System

Honorable Mention

Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge), The Ebb and Flow of the Pink Tide: Reformist Development Strategies in Brazil and Argentina

Juan Albarracín Dierolf (Universidad Icesi), Criminalized Electoral Politics. The Socio-Political Foundations of Electoral Coercion in Democratic Brazil