Teresa Cebrián Aranda
Doctoral Student, International Affairs and Journalism, Columbia University
Teresa holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University and is currently pursuing a Master of International Affairs and an MS in Journalism at Columbia University. She previously worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (Rome), where she was responsible for the coordination and editing of high-profile publications. Among others, she edited the joint FAO-EL PAÍS publications series “The State of our Planet”. She is interested in how documentary video, photography and journalism at large can drive social action and improve public policy across geographical boundaries.
Teresa Cebrián Aranda
Graduate Student, School of International and Public Affairs and Journalism School
Teresa holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University and is currently pursuing a Master of International Affairs and an MS in Journalism at Columbia University. She previously worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (Rome), where she was responsible for the coordination and editing of high-profile publications. Among others, she edited the joint FAO-EL PAÍS publications series “The State of our Planet”. She is interested in how documentary video, photography and journalism at large can drive social action and improve public policy across geographical boundaries.
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Iuri Bauler
Doctoral Student, History, Columbia University
Iuri Bauler Pereira holds a B.A. in History from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His research focus on the transnational connections and geopolitical imagination of Latin American Countercultures (underground press, literature and film), Brazilian Critical Geography, and the Intellectual History of the Americas.
Iuri Bauler
Graduate Student, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Iuri Bauler Pereira holds a B.A. in History from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His research focus on the transnational connections and geopolitical imagination of Latin American Countercultures (underground press, literature and film), Brazilian Critical Geography, and the Intellectual History of the Americas. Before coming to Columbia he worked as a researcher and archivist in audiovisual and printed media archives in Brazil, including the Brazilian National Radio, Brazilian Public Television, and in collections of radical pamphlets and underground press.
Working Group Affiliation
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Graduate Assistant
Sohini Chattopadhyay
Sohini Chattopadhyay is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Columbia University. Her dissertation focuses on the science of managing mass death in colonial cities, with a particular interest in Bombay and Calcutta among other cities in the early twentieth century.
I am a historian of South Asia. My research spans from colonialism to its aftermath, with particular interests in the comparative studies of urban history, labor histories, and the history of science and technology.
My current book project studies the intersections between Science and Technology Studies and South Asian history through the history of the crematorium, as the object transformed working class death rites and community histories in Bombay and Calcutta (present day Mumbai and Kolkata). I argue for the need to study the disjunctive and regionally varied colonial histories of science and technology in British India, and I demonstrate that the regional variations were necessary (and often strategic) outcomes of colonial science's engagement with labor, caste, and community hierarchies.
Drawing from my interest in bodies and technologies, my second book project focuses on the business and social histories of sanitary napkins in colonial to Cold War era South Asia.
Working Group Affiliation
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Graduate Assistant
Camila Daniel
Fellow, Social Sciences, Rural University of Rio de Janeiro
Professor at the Três Rios Institute at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. PhD in Social Sciences (PUC / Rio). Master in Social Sciences (PPCIS / UERJ). Post-doctorate by the Department of World Language and International Studies (Morgan State University / USA).
Camila Daniel
Professor at the Três Rios Institute at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. PhD in Social Sciences (PUC / Rio). Master in Social Sciences (PPCIS / UERJ). Post-doctorate by the Department of World Language and International Studies (Morgan State University / USA). Visiting Researcher at the Fulbright Foundation at New York University in 2019. Professor Daniel works as an activist researcher in the field of migratory studies and ethnic-racial relations in Latin America and the United States.
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Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio
Fellow, Sustainability, Columbia University
Over 16 years of experience as project coordinator in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Sustainability, Social Responsibility, Sociocultural and Socioenvironmental Education and research. Coordination of +50 long, medium and short term projects in the areas of human rights, social memory, community media, environment, preservation of material and immaterial cultural heritage, with wide experience in complex environments such as conflict zones, isolated communities and extreme poverty.
Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio
Project Coordinator: Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City
Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio holds a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), and an MA in Social Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Her research focuses on visual arts and social memory from under-represented territories, especially favelas and indigenous communities, with an emphasis on photography. From a broader perspective, she aims to work with the Latin American feminist visual arts scene and their connections with activism and the geopolitical imagination.
Before Columbia, Ana Luiza worked for 16 years as an art curator, researcher in visual arts and as a project coordinator and teacher in photography. Ana Luiza has wide experience in complex environments such as conflict zones, isolated communities, and extreme poverty territories. Throughout her career she developed a variety of projects across Brazil and abroad, including several initiatives in the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado region, Rio’s favelas, the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Ana Luiza has undertaken efforts in the visual arts, digital humanities, preservation of material and immaterial cultural heritage, community and popular media, socio-environmental programs, and communications projects with indigenous groups. Ana Luiza has accomplished such work in the domain of public institutions and non-governmental organizations but has also developed partnerships in the private sector.
Before joining Columbia University in the Fall of 2022, Ana Luiza worked for 8 years as the coordinator of the Social Action department of the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS), Brazil’s most influential cultural institution. Ana is a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
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Matias Echanove
Fellow, Government and Economics, London School of Economics
Matias Echanove is co-founder of the urbz collective along with Rahul Srivastava and Geeta Mehta, which has offices in Mumbai, Geneva and Bogota. He has studied government and economics at the London School of Economics, urban planning at Columbia University, and urban information systems at the University of Tokyo.
Matias Echanove
Matias Echanove is co-founder of the urbz collective along with Rahul Srivastava and Geeta Mehta, which has offices in Mumbai, Geneva and Bogota. He has studied government and economics at the London School of Economics, urban planning at Columbia University, and urban information systems at the University of Tokyo.
His writings have been published by the Oxford University Press, New Village Press, The New York Times, The Ruby Press, Strelka, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, The Times of India, Time Out Mumbai, Art India and Indian Architect and Builder among others.
urbz is an experimental action and research collective specialized in participatory planning and design. It works with citizens, organizations and municipalities. urbz’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, MAXXI in Rome, MAK in Vienna, Sao Paulo Cultural Center and Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai.
Fernando Ermiro
Doctoral Student, History, Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Fernando Ermiro is a resident of Rocinha. He is currently completing a Master's degree at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Fernando Ermiro
Fernando Ermiro is a resident of Rocinha. He is currently completing a Master's degree at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He completed his undergraduate degree in History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Currently, he is the coordinator of the Sankofa Museum of Memory and History of Rocinha, and organizer of the book “Tales of Rocinha: Female Memory in Three Times.” He received the Creative Favela Award for his project Rocinha Histórica, in which he develops and expands knowledge about the history of Rocinha. The Sankofa Museum of Rocinha is a social movement that is formalized and composed of Rocinha residents and supporters since 2007 who act in the cause of the social memory of this centennial and iconic favela.
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Antonio Carlos Firmino
Fellow, Geographer, Social Action Padre Anchieta (ASPA)
Antonio Carlos Firmino is a founding member of the Sankofa Museum of Memory and History of Rocinha. He is a geographer, and coordinator of one of the oldest institutions of the Favela da Rocinha, the Social Action Padre Anchieta (ASPA).
Antonio Carlos Firmino
Geographer, Social Action Padre Anchieta (ASPA)
Antonio Carlos Firmino is a founding member of the Sankofa Museum of Memory and History of Rocinha. He is a geographer, and coordinator of one of the oldest institutions of the Favela da Rocinha, the Social Action Padre Anchieta (ASPA). For over 12 years, he has coordinated the Point of Culture Center of Culture and Playful Education of Rocinha (International Center for Study and Research on Childhood-CIESPI / PUC-Rio), acted as TUXAÚA (articulated by the Rio de Janeiro State Points of Culture Forum), and participated in the Rocinha sem Fronteiras and Rocinha Resiste collectives. He is a member of the Social Museology Network of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
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Gabriel Franco
Undergraduate Student, Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Political Science, Columbia College, Columbia University
Gabriel Franco is an undergraduate student at Columbia University in the fields of Latin American & Caribbean studies and political science. His areas of focus are Brazilian slavery and race studies and public security in Brazil, especially regarding drug policy and dynamics of urban violence as part of the "war on drugs" mentality.
Gabriel Franco
Undergraduate Student, Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Political Science, Columbia College, Columbia University
Gabriel Franco is an undergraduate student at Columbia University in the fields of Latin American & Caribbean studies and political science. His areas of focus are Brazilian slavery and race studies and public security in Brazil, especially regarding drug policy and dynamics of urban violence as part of the "war on drugs" mentality. Gabriel is an assistant at the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS/Columbia). He is currently participating in an exchange program at PUC-Rio, where he is doing research on public security for his senior thesis and assisting other fellows of Geographies of Injustice with a project on oral history and music in favelas.
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Jessica Jacolbe
Jessica Jacolbe is a writer from Brooklyn whose work has been featured in Catapult, Garage Magazine, JSTOR Daily, and others.
Jessica Jacolbe
Jessica Jacolbe is a writer from Brooklyn whose work has been featured in Catapult, Garage Magazine, JSTOR Daily, and others. She is currently pursuing an MA degree at Columbia Journalism School concentrating on Arts & Culture writing.
Working Group Affiliation
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Media Fellow (2020)
Ana Paulina Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Ana Paulina Lee is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author of Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press).
Ana Paulina Lee
Ana Paulina Lee is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author of Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press).
Ana Paulina Lee's research and teaching focus on the intersection of cultural studies and political philosophy, race relations and hemispheric American histories of slavery and immigration, Asian and African diasporic cultures in the Americas, performance and memory studies. Prior to joining the department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Lee was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, and holds an MA in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from New York University in Madrid, Spain, a Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu em Cultura e Arte Barroca from the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, and a BA in English Literature and Global Studies from SUNY Binghamton. Professor Lee has been a Fulbright Researcher in Lisbon, Portugal, and the recipient of the Fundação Luso-Americana Fellowship and Cultural Ambassador Award from the Ministry of Education and Sport of Spain.
Working Group Affiliations
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Project Director
Books Edited:
Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory Stanford University Press, 2018
Graciela Montaldo
Professor, Department of Latin America and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Professor at the Department of Latin America and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University. She specializes in modern Latin American Culture with a focus on contemporary cultural practices. She is co-editor of The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, and Politics (2002).
Graciela Montaldo
Professor at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University. She specializes in modern Latin American Culture with a focus on contemporary cultural practices. She is co-editor of The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, and Politics (2002).
She has published Museo del Consumo (2016, Museum of Consumerism, 2020), Rubén Darío. Viajes de un cosmopolita extremo (2013), Zonas Ciegas. Populismos y experimentos culturales en Argentina (2010), A propriedade da Cultura (2004), Teoría crítica, Teoría cultural (2001), Ficciones culturales y fábulas de identidad en América Latina (1999), La sensibilidad amenazada (1995), De pronto el campo (1993). She is also co-editor of Esplendores y miserias del siglo XIX (1996) and Yrigoyen entre Borges y Arlt (1989, 2006). She regularly publishes articles on modern culture, contemporary literature, culture industry and institutions. Her current research explores the culture of “the clandestine/underground” as a political tool in modern Latin America.
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Nilce Naira Nascimento
Fellow, Afro-Brazilian Women and Health, 1st World Summit of Afro-descendants in Honduras
Mãe Nilce de Iansã; Project Coordinator at Ilê Omolú e Oxum- Rio de Janeiro; Coordinator of the National Network of Afro-Brazilian Women and Health; Member of the International Committee of the Organization of the 1st World Summit of Afro-descendants in Honduras, 2011; Member of the Technical Committee of Health of the Black Population.
Nilce Naira Nascimento
Mãe Nilce de Iansã; Project Coordinator at Ilê Omolú e Oxum- Rio de Janeiro; Coordinator of the National Network of Afro-Brazilian Women and Health; Member of the International Committee of the Organization of the 1st World Summit of Afro-descendants in Honduras, 2011; Member of the Technical Committee of Health of the Black Population; Member of Criola NGO in Defense and Promotion of Black Women in Rio de Janeiro; Coordinator of Cultural Obínrín Odara; Author of three books about the history and preservation of Afro-Brazilian cuisine, Omi Odara (1988); Ewá Jeun (2008); Éwé Lárá (2011); State Council Member for the Rights of Women (Cedim) Rio de Janeiro; Member of the project Environmental Preservation and Diversity; and partner with the Secretary of the Environment, Rio de Janeiro State.
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Anupama Rao
Associate Professor, Department of History, Columbia University
Anupama Rao has research and teaching interests in the history of anti-colonialism; caste and race; historical anthropology, social theory and intellectual history, and comparative urbanism. She is Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has served as President, Society for the Advancement of South Asian History (American Historical Association), and on the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Her work has been supported by fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) and the National Humanities Center (North Carolina), and by grants for the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Anupama Rao
Associate Professor, History and Associate Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Anupama Rao, Associate Professor, History, Barnard College, is the author of The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (U California Press, 2009), and numerous essays on colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. She has been a Fellow-in-Residence at the National Humanities Center; at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford); and at REWORK (Humboldt University, Berlin). Rao is co-convenor of “Subaltern Urbanism,” which is supported by Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, and was supported by a faculty grant from the Heyman Center for the Humanities. From 2014 to 2015, she was co-convenor of the project Asian Spatialities, supported by the Mellon Foundation and the International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden). Rao is currently working on a book on the political thought of B. R. Ambedkar; and on a project titled Dalit Bombay, which explores the relationship between caste, political culture, and everyday life in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. Rao is currently Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Associate Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Working Group Affiliations
Gender and the Global Slum, Project Director
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Project Director
Liberalism’s Others, Project Director
Reframing Gendered Violence, Project Director
Isabela Souza
Isabela Souza is a PhD student in Geography at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a MBA in Project Management from Brazilian Institute of Capital Market (IBMEC - RJ) and a bachelor degree in Tourism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).
Isabela Souza
Isabela Souza is a PhD student in Geography at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a MBA in Project Management from Brazilian Institute of Capital Market (IBMEC - RJ) and a bachelor degree in Tourism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Isabela was born and raised in Maré, and since 2011 has been part of OSCIP Observatório de Favelas do Rio de Janeiro. Her interests span debates about the city, the people in it, and art and culture as means to construct more egalitarian society.
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Rahul Srivastava
Rahul Srivastava is co-founder of the urbz collective along with Matias Echanove and Geeta Mehta, which has offices in Mumbai, Geneva and Bogota. He has studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at St. Xavier's College - Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi, and Cambridge University - U.K.
Rahul Srivastava
Rahul Srivastava is co-founder of the urbz collective along with Matias Echanove and Geeta Mehta, which has offices in Mumbai, Geneva and Bogota. He has studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at St. Xavier's College - Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi, and Cambridge University - U.K.
Rahul taught at Wilson College in Mumbai for seven years and was the first Director of PUKAR, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research, Mumbai. He has written extensively in academic and mainstream publications.
urbz is an experimental action and research collective specialized in participatory planning and design. It works with citizens, organizations and municipalities. urbz’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, MAXXI in Rome, MAK in Vienna, Sao Paulo Cultural Center and Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai.
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Sergio Suiama
Public Prosecutor, Office of Cultural Heritage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergio Suiama is a Federal Prosecutor in Brazil and a Columbia Law LL.M. alumnus (class of 2009-2010). Also, he holds a master in World Heritage and Cultural Projects for the Development from University of Turin. Graduated from University of Sao Paulo Law School, he has worked in the Brazilian prosecution service since 2002, and at the Office of Cultural Heritage and Environment in Rio de Janeiro since 2014. Currently, he serves as well as the Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the State and coordinates the Working Group on LGBTQ’s rights at the Office of the Federal Ombudsman.
Sergio Gardenghi Suiama
Public Prosecutor, Office of Cultural Heritage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergio Suiama is a Federal Prosecutor in Brazil and a Columbia Law LL.M. alumnus (class of 2009-2010). Also, he holds a master in World Heritage and Cultural Projects for the Development from University of Turin.
Graduated from University of Sao Paulo Law School, he has worked in the Brazilian prosecution service since 2002, and at the Office of Cultural Heritage and Environment in Rio de Janeiro since 2014. Currently, he serves as well as the Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the State and coordinates the Working Group on LGBTQ’s rights at the Office of the Federal Ombudsman.
As a senior legal professional, he has for more than 20 years litigated, written and lectured on topics such as racial equality, transitional justice, cultural rights, freedom of expression and rights of LGBTQ.
For his work in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes against humanity committed during the last Brazilian dictatorship he received in 2014 the Special Achievement Award from the International Association of Prosecutors, and the Chico Mendes Medal from Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais (Brazil).
Luiz Fernando Vianna
Fellow, Web Radio, Instituto Moreira Salles
Luiz Fernando Vianna is a journalist. He has written for O Globo, Folha de S. Paulo and other venues. He is the author of books on popular music, and coordinates the Batuta Radio since 2013.
Luiz Fernando Vianna
Luiz Fernando Vianna is a journalist. He has written for O Globo, Folha de S. Paulo and other venues. He is the author of books on popular music, and coordinates the Batuta Radio since 2013.
Rádio Batuta is the web radio of Instituto Moreira Salles. It was created in 2010 to promote the IMS recordings collection and to perform special series, such as those dedicated to Noel Rosa and João Gilberto. Today it has a 24-hour program of Brazilian music, documentaries, interviews in their studios and regular attractions that include classical music and jazz.
The Moreira Salles Institute (IMS), founded in 1992 with its own resources from the Moreira Salles family, currently has three headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Poços de Caldas (MG). The IMS houses and lends collections of photography, music, literature and iconography. In music, the IMS owns the largest collection of 78 rpm records in Brazil, with over 50,000 records. Among several other activities, it develops Social Action projects and has a web radio, Radio Batuta.
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