About the speaker

Professor Anthony Pereira

Professor Pereira graduated from the University of Sussex in 1982 with a BA in Politics and then in 1986 obtained a Masters in Government from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis at Harvard, defended in 1991, focused on the role of rural unions in northeastern Brazil in expanding democratic rights in two different periods, the early 1960s before the 1964 military coup and the late 1960s, seventies and eighties, when the authoritarian regime of Brazil was ending. This research led to the publication of the book 'The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).