Brazilian Studies Research MPhil/PhD

Overview

The Brazil Institute offers supervision for MPhil/PhD research degrees relating to Brazil and draws on academic expertise in a range of disciplinary departments across the College. Supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other staff of the College. Some details about the members of staff in the Brazil Institute can be found below in the course detail section.

Current number of academic staff: 4 (plus a visiting professor and associates in a number of other departments).

Current number of research students: 4.

Recent publications:

• The effects of participatory budgeting on municipal expenditures and infant mortality in Brazil
• Sugar and modernity in Latin America
• The embodied state: governmentality in a Brazilian favela
• Ditadura e Repressão [Dictatorship and Repression]
• Brazil’s Truth Commission: progress or perdition?

Current research projects:

• Representations of violence in Brazilian literature
• The geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalization
• Relations between Britain and Brazil: from independence to the present day
• Border conflicts between Ceará and Piauí
• Patrimonialism and the Brazilian state

Partner organisations:

• The Institute is closely involved in the College’s key partnership with the University of São Paulo, as well as a number of other institutional and departmental partnerships in Brazil, with the possibility of research exchanges for postgraduate students.

Course Detail 

The King’s Brazil Institute offers a unique and exciting environment for the in-depth study of Brazil. The Institute is able to draw on academic expertise in a range of disciplinary departments across the College, and supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other staff of the College. Staff research interests include the following:

Professor Anthony Pereira:

Comparative politics; democracy and authoritarianism; political regimes and regime change; military rule; social movements; citizenship and human rights; new institutions of accountability in Brazilian public security; Brazil's political, economic, and social transformation in the 20th and early 21st century.

Dr Jeffrey Garmany:

Brazil in the twenty-first century; the geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalisation; emergent forms of civil association relative to state-based rule; the relationships between drugs, violence, and death in contemporary urban space; governance in favelas; globalisation; the environment.

Dr Sónia Gonçalves:
Her main research interests are in the fields of development economics and political economy. She has worked on research projects that analyse the links between public service delivery and participatory democracy in Brazil, as well as between media and political accountability.

Dr Vinicius De Carvalho:
Brazil in peace keeping operations; internal stabilization policies; literature and violence in Brazil; Brazilian music; Brazilian religions; the epistemology of Brazilian Studies.

Information is current, but staff members can change.

Head of group/division

Nick is the convenor of the PhD Brazilian Research programme.

Global Institutes Lead

Professor Christophe Jaffrelot