About
I am an interdisciplinary and community-based scholar and teacher. I have used community-based, historical-comparative, and qualitative research methods to study immigration, intergroup relations, Latin America and Latinos in the United States.
Research interests
I am an interdisciplinary and community-based scholar and teacher. I have used community-based, historical-comparative, and qualitative research methods to study immigration, intergroup relations, Latin America and Latinos in the United States.
Teaching interests
Global Studies, Latin America, Immigration, Community Research.
Education
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Ph D, Sociology
— Johns Hopkins University (2012) The social basis of intellectual property regimes: biotechnology in South American soybean agriculture
- Other, Cross-National Sociology and International Development — Johns Hopkins University (2011)
- MA, Sociology — Johns Hopkins University (2009)
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MS, Economics
— Federal University of Santa Catarina (2006) Brazil and Argentina in context of the capitalist world-economy: external debt and economic policy (1870-1930)
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BS, Economic Sciences
— Federal University of Santa Catarina (2003) Characterization of the financial crises of systemic cycles of accumulation
Publications
- A Dialética entre Globalização Hegemônica e Contra-Hegemônica na Cadeia Mundial da Soja (The dialectics of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic globalization in the soy commodity chain) 2015
- Brazilian elections: labor pain? 2014
- Patterns of rule-making and intellectual property regimes: lessons from South American soybean agriculture 2014
- Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America 2014
- How Argentine Farmers Overpowered Monsanto: The Mobilization of Knowledge-Users and Intellectual Property Regimes 2013
- State capacity and intellectual property regimes: lessons from South American soybean agriculture 2013
- O Banco BRICS: rumo a uma nova arquitetura financeira global (BRICS Bank: towards a new global financial architecture) 2013
- A mudança institucional em perspectiva histórico-mundial: competição transnacional e propriedade intelectual na agricultura de soja da América do Sul (Institutional change in world-historical perspective: transnational competition and intellectual property in South American soybean agriculture) 2012
- Introdução (Introduction) 2012
- Semeando o desenvolvimento: políticas de propriedade intelectual para a indústria de sementes (Sowing development: intellectual property policies for the seed industry) 2011
- A Crise Baring e a Crise do Encilhamento nos quadros da economia-mundo capitalista (The Baring and the Encilhamento crises in the context of the capitalist world-economy) 2010
- Em direção ao transgênico socialmente responsável (Towards the socially-responsible transgenic) 2010
- Giovanni Arrighi: um intelectual de três continentes (Giovanni Arrighi: an intellectual of three continents) 2009
- Relaxing Structuralism: advances in World-Systems Analysis 2008
- Economia política do moderno sistema mundial: as contribuições de Wallerstein, Braudel e Arrighi (The political economy of the modern world-system: the contributions of Wallerstein, Braudel and Arrighi) 2007
- Impacto da transição da hegemonia financeira mundial do Reino Unido para os EUA sobre a política econômica brasileira e argentina (Impact of the transition of financial world hegemony from the United Kingdom to the United States on Argentine and Brazilian economic policy) 2007
- Review of Religion is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Grace Yukich and Penny Edgell. Politics and Religion
Presentations
- A relational approach to local immigration policy: lessons from Baltimore City 2015
- Toward a theory of local immigration policy: Baltimore City and the Hispanic diaspora 2015
- From TRIPS to ACTA: U.S. hegemonic decline and the global intellectual property regime 2014
- A política externa dos presidenciáveis (The foreign policy of presidential candidates) 2014
- A cooperação entre Brasil e Moçambique: desafios, Críticas e Caminhos para o Desenvolvimento (The cooperation between Brazil and Mozambique: challenges, critiques and pathways for development) 2014
- A Análise de Sistemas-Mundo como Perspectiva para o Estudo das Relações Internacionais (World-Systems Analysis as a Perspective to the Study of International Relations) 2013
- A ciber-segurança nas relações internacionais (Cyber-security in international relations) 2013
- A Teoria de Relações Internacionais como Teoria Social: a Contribuição Crítica da Economia Política (International Relations Theory as Social Theory: the Critical Contribution of Political Economy) 2013
- Enfrentamientos entre los agricultores y la industria de semillas: Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay en perspective comparada (Conflicts between farmers and the seed industry: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay in comparative perspective) 2012
- Métodos de Pesquisa em Análise de Sistemas-Mundo (Research Methods in World-Systems Analysis) 2012
- "Acá somos chicos": struggles over intellectual property on transgenic seeds in Paraguay 2012
- Giovanni Arrighi’s Radical Rethinking of Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century 2011
- Aborted Activism: Intellectual Property Rights on Genetically-Modified Soybeans in Brazil 2010
- Trade for Development?: Brazil and China in the Soy World-Market 2009
- merican thirst and Chinese hunger as opportunities for Brazilian development 2009
- A política econômica brasileira dos governos Campos Salles (1898-1902) e Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-1998) em perspectiva histórico-comparativa: uma análise à luz do conceito de ciclos sistêmicos de acumulação (Brazilian economic policy in the administrations of Campos Salles (1898-1902) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-1998) in comparative-historical perspective: an analysis based on the concept of systemic cycles of accumulation) 2004
Courses Taught
- The Politics of Development
- Approaches to Globalization
- Latin American Politics