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Semiotics and social theory

TADDEI, Renzo and GAMBOGGI, Ana Laura. Gender and the Semiotics of Political Visibility in the Brazilian Northeast. Social Semiotics. Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2009, 149-164.

TADDEI, Renzo. Notes on the Semiotic Phenomenology of Social Discrimination. Galáxia, No. 17, 2009, pp. 147-159.

 

Comunication, Politics and the Environment

TADDEI, Renzo. Os usos da lei e a vida social da legislação hídrica - Notas e reflexões sobre o caso do Ceará. Revista Teoria e Pesquisa, No. 44/45, jan./jul. 2004.

TADDEI, Renzo. Notas sobre a vida social da previsão climática – Um estudo do caso do Ceará. In Lall, Upmanu and F. A. Souza Filho (eds.), Gerenciamento Integrado dos Recursos Hídricos com Incorporação da Previsão Climática: da Informação e Previsão Climática à Redução das Vulnerabilidades às Secas no Semi-Árido Cearense, Vol. 3. Palisades, NY and Fortaleza, Brazil: IRI/FUNCEME, 2004.

TADDEI, Renzo. Oráculos da Chuva em Tempos Modernos: Mídia, Desenvolvimento Econômico, e as Transformações na Identidade Social dos Profetas do Sertão. In Martins, Karla (org.), Os Profetas da Chuva. Fortaleza: Tempo D'Imagem, 2006.

BROAD, Kenneth; PFAFF, Alex; TADDEI, Renzo; ARUMUGAM, Sankarasubramanian; LALL, Upmanu; SOUZA FILHO, Franciso de Assis. Climate, stream flow prediction and water management in northeast Brazil: societal trends and forecast value. Climatic Change, Volume 84, Number 2, September 2007.

TADDEI, Renzo. Blame: The Hidden (and Difficult) Side of the Climate Change Debate. Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association, v. 49, p. 45-46, 2008.

TADDEI, Renzo. A Comunicação Social da Informação sobre Tempo e Clima: o Ponto de Vista do Usuário. Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, v. 32, p. 20-39, 2008.

Forthcoming

TADDEI, Renzo, BROAD, Kenneth e PFAFF, Alex. O Contexto Sóciopolítico das Reformas na Gestão de Água no Ceará. In TADDEI, Renzo, SOUZA FILHO, Francisco de Assis de, e LALL, Upmanu (eds.), Clima, Água e Sociedade. Palisades, NY, e Fortaleza, Brazil: IRI/FUNCEME.

 

Soccer and Violence

TADDEI, Renzo. Moral Panic – The Ethnography of Hooliganism. Institute of Latin American Studies Newsletter, ILAS-Columbia University, Fall 2001.

TADDEI, Renzo. Notas sobre la economía política de categorías y denominaciones en el fútbol argentino. Educación Física y Deportes, Year 8, No. 55, December 2002.

 

Photography

TADDEI, Renzo. O Orifício de Pandora – A Imagem e a Imaginação. In Miranda, Hercilia Tavares de and Luís Carlos de Menezes (orgs.). Almanaque de criação  pedagógica: a aventura da explicação - ciência e linguagens. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2002.

 

Articles in newspapers and magazines

TADDEI, Renzo. Jewelry of Brazilian Nature. Éléments Online Enviornmental Magazine, Julho de 1999.

TADDEI, Renzo. Clima e sociedade: mudando paradigmas, Coluna Opinião, Diário do Nordeste, Fortaleza, 17 de janeiro de 2006.

CARVALHO, Eleuda de; TADDEI, Renzo. Profetas da Chuva - Clima de ansiedade coletiva (entrevista com Renzo Taddei). Revista Raiz, São Paulo, p. 72 - 72, 01 de fevereiro de 2006.

TADDEI, Renzo. Ciência e os Profetas. Coluna Opinião, Diário do Nordeste, Fortaleza, 15 de janeiro de 2009.

TADDEI, Renzo. Da quadra chuvosa ao aquecimento global, o clima nosso de cada dia. Caderno O Estado Verde, O Estado (CE), Fortaleza, Ceará, 26 de janeiro de 2009.

 

Other publications

TADDEI, Renzo. Ganja in Jamaica. Research Institute for the Study of Man, Disparity in Law and Power Project, Interactive Science Group. [web site].

TADDEI, Renzo; DEPARTAMENTO DE METEOROLOGIA, Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos. Para Entender Melhor a Previsão Meteorológica Para a Estação Chuvosa no Ceará. Fortaleza: FUNCEME, 2009.

 

Organization of conferences

TADDEI, Renzo; CRATE, Susan; HALVORSEN, Kathleen E.; NATCHER, David C. Climate and Culture Sessions I & II, XV Annual Meeting of the Society for Human Ecology. Rio de Janeiro, 6 de outubro de 2007.

Doctoral dissertation

TADDEI, Renzo. Of Clouds and Streams, Prophets and Profits: The Political Semiotics of Climate and Water in the Brazilian Northeast. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 2005

 

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curriculum vitae

 

Research Interests:

Language Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Communication, Semiotics, Photography, Gender, Environmental and Scientific Communication, Anthropological Theory

 

Higher education:

Ph.D., M.Phil., Columbia University - Anthropology (2005)

M.A., University of São Paulo, Brazil - Language and Education Program, School of Education (2000)

Bachelor's Degree, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil (1995)

Teaching:

2009: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Assistant Professor, School of Communication

History of Communication (undergraduate course), Spring 2009
Communication, Citizenship and Politics I (undergraduate course), Spring 2009

2009: State University of Campinas. Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology.

Sign, Signification, and Power (graduate seminar), Fall 2009

2006-2007: Yale University. Lecturer in Anthropology (visiting appointment), Department of Anthropology and Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.

The Anthropology of Uncertainty (graduate seminar), Spring 2007
Climate and Society (undergraduate course), Spring 2007
Imaginaries of Development in Latin America (graduate seminar), Fall 2006
Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (undergraduate course), Fall 2006

2007 (Spring): Teachers College, Columbia University. Adjunct Professor. Anthropology Programs, International and Transcultural Studies Department.

Anthropological Perspectives on Climate and Disasters (graduate seminar), Spring 2007

2001-2002: City University of New York - Borough of Manhattan Community College. Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences Department.

Introduction to Anthropology (undergraduate course), Fall 2001, Spring 2002
Introduction to Human Geography (undergraduate course), Fall 2001, Spring 2002
Introduction to Sociology (undergraduate course), Fall 2002
The Sociology of the Family (undergraduate course), Fall 2002

2001-2002: Columbia University. Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Programs. New York, NY.

Social and Cultural Basis of Education (teaching assistantship, graduate course, instructor: Professor Lambros Comitas), Fall 2001
Methods of Inquiry: Ethnography and Participant Observation. (teaching assistantship, graduate course, instructor: Professor Charles Harrington), Summer 2002

1997-1998: Universidade Bandeirantes de São Paulo. Adjunct Professor, Department of Education. São Paulo, Brazil.

Statistics Applied to Research in Education (undergraduate course)

Other educational activities:

Coordinator of the Summer Field School in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Methods in Brazil. (Funded by the Landes Grant for Supervised Fieldwork, through the Research Institute for the Study of Man, and the Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study.)

2004 Edition, co-organized with Kenneth Broad (University of Miami). Students: Georgia Melville - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico; Andrea Domanico - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil; Adailton Barbosa Gomes Ferreira - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.

2006 Edition, co-organized with Ana Laura Gamboggi (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico). Students: Érika Mesquita - Universidade de Campinas, Brazil; Rita Pestana Almeida Pinto - St. Andrews University, Scotland; Carolina Neri - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico; Chandra Morrison - University of Cambridge, UK; Vítor Manuel Klironomos Popinsky - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal; Carlos Abraão Moura Valpassos - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2006 Engineers Without Borders - New York Regional Workshop, Columbia University. Ethnographic and participatory methods: Understanding culture and fostering a relationship with a community, successful interviewing, and community workshop techniques. With Nicole Peterson (Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University) and Scott Lacy (Emory University). Saturday, September 30th, 2006.

Research positions:

2008-2009: State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Department of Anthropology. Post-doctoral research fellow.

2005-2007: Columbia University/Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study. Post-doctoral research fellow.

2002-2005: Columbia University Earth Institute / International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Researcher.

2000-2001: Research Institute for the Study of Man. Researcher. Interactive Science Group/Disparities in Law and Power Project. Director: Lambros Comitas. Project undertaken: "Ganja in Jamaica" web site. New York, NY.

Other institutional affiliations:

Affiliated Researcher
CRED - Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Columbia University, 419 Schermerhorn Hall
1200 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027-7003 USA
cred.columbia.edu

Affiliated Researcher
CIFAS - Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study
Teachers College, Columbia University
TC Box 045 - 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027 USA
www.cifas.us

Adjunct Research Scientist
IRI-International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Latin America & Caribbean Program
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
61 Rt. 9W - P.O. Box 1000 - Palisades, NY 10964-8000 USA
iri.columbia.edu

Publications:

2001a - Ganja in Jamaica. Research Institute for the Study of Man, Disparity in Law and Power Project, Interactive Science Group. www.rism.org/isg/dlp/ganja [web site].

2001b - Moral Panic - The Ethnography of Hooliganism. Institute of Latin American Studies Newsletter, ILAS-Columbia University, Fall 2001.

2002a - O Orifício de Pandora - A Imagem e a Imaginação. In Miranda, Hercilia Tavares de and Luís Carlos de Menezes (orgs.). Almanaque de criação pedagógica: a aventura da explicação - ciência e linguagens. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes.

2002b - Notas sobre la economía política de categorías y denominaciones en el fútbol argentino. Educación Física y Deportes, Year 8, No. 55, December 2002.

2004a - Os usos da lei e a vida social da legislação hídrica - Notas e reflexões sobre o caso do Ceará. Revista Teoria e Pesquisa, No. 44/45, jan./jul. 2004.

2004b - Notas sobre a vida social da previsão climática - Um estudo do caso do Ceará. In Lall, Upmanu and F. A. Souza Filho (eds.), Gerenciamento Integrado dos Recursos Hídricos com Incorporação da Previsão Climática: da Informação e Previsão Climática à Redução das Vulnerabilidades às Secas no Semi-Árido Cearense, Vol. 3. Palisades, NY and Fortaleza, Brazil: IRI/FUNCEME.

2006a - Oráculos da Chuva em Tempos Modernos: Mídia, Desenvolvimento Econômico, e as Transformações na Identidade Social dos Profetas do Sertão. In Martins, Karla (org.), Profetas da Chuva. Fortaleza: Tempo d´Imagem.

2006b - Clima e Sociedade: mudando paradigmas, Op-ed article, Diário do Nordeste, Fortaleza, January 17, 2006.

2007 - Kenneth Broad, Alex Pfaff, Renzo Taddei, Sankarasubramanian Arumugam, Upmanu Lall and Franciso de Assis de Souza Filho. Climate, stream flow prediction and water management in northeast Brazil: societal trends and forecast value. Climatic Change, Volume 84, Number 2, September 2007.

2008a - The Hidden (and Difficult) Side of the Climate Change Debate. Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association, v. 49, p. 45-46, 2008.

2008b - A Comunicação Social da Informação sobre Tempo e Clima: o Ponto de Vista do Usuário. Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia, v. 32, p. 20-39, 2008

2009a - Oráculos de lluvia en tiempos modernos. Medios, desarrollo económico y transformaciones de identidad social de los profetas del Sertão. Historia y Desastres Vol. III, La Red/CIESAS, Mexico, p. 331-352.

2009b - Renzo Taddei and Ana Laura Gamboggi. Gender and the Semiotics of Political Visibility in the Brazilian Northeast. Social Semiotics, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2009, 149-164.

2009c - Notes on the Semiotic Phenomenology of Social Discrimination. Galáxia, No. 17, 2009, 147-159.

Forthcoming - Renzo Taddei, Kenneth Broad and Alex Pfaff. Integrating Climate and Water Management in Ceará: Historical Background, Social and Legal Structures, and Implications. In Taddei, Renzo, Upmanu Lall and Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho (eds.), Climate, Water and Society. Palisades, NY, and Fortaleza, Brazil: IRI/FUNCEME.

Graduate work

Ph.D. dissertation (2005): "Of Clouds and Streams, Prophets and Profits: the Political Semiotics of Climate and Water in the Brazilian Northeast". Nominated for the Bancroft Award 2005. Advisor: Lambros Comitas. Published electronically at http://bdtd.ibict.br.

M.A. thesis (2000): "Discourse, Knowledge and Education - Contributions to the Study of Education without the Metaphysics of Rationalism". Advisor: Vojislav Aleksandar Jovanovic. Published electronically at www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48133/tde-27022002-121434 (Portuguese).

Major fieldwork:

2002-2009: Northeast Brazil.

2001-2002: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Honors:

Dissertation nominated for the Bancroft Award, Columbia University – 2005

Guest lecturer at the Seminar in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the First Brazilian Water Law, organized by the Brazilian Association for Water Resources (ABRH). Fortaleza, Brazil, July 9, 2004

Guest lecturer at the Conference on Vulnerability and Hydrometeorological Risk Management in Mexico (organized by CIESAS, UNAM and Colegio de México). Mexico City, May 26 and 27, 2005.

Guest lecturer at CIESAS – Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, as part of ‘Seminário Teórico-Metodológico del Proyecto Gestión de riesgo de desastre ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) en America Latina, Sección México’. Mexico City, March 6, 2003.

Grants and fellowships:

FAPESP (São Paulo State Science Research Foundation, Brazil), Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2008/2010.

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant – 2003/2004

Research Institute for the Study of Man/Landes Grant – Summer, 2003

CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council) International Doctoral Studies Scholarship – Fall, 2001 to Spring, 2005

Tinker Grant – Summer, 2001

Columbia University, Teachers College Anthropology Programs Scholarship – Spring, 2001

Columbia University, Teachers College International Scholarship – Fall, 2000

Research Grants:

2006-2007 - Tinker Foundation ($150,000, based at Columbia University): social science co-investigator, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Title of the project: Water Allocation, Efficiency and Vulnerability in Northeast Brazil: Mechanisms based on Groups' Behaviors, Perceptions and Recommendations.

2005-2009 - NSF Decision Making Under Uncertainty ($7,189,048, based at Columbia University): co-investigator, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. For study of individual and group decision-making under imperfect information and climate uncertainty, including fieldwork on different water system stakeholders in Ceará, Brazil.

2005-2007 - NOAA Office of Global Programs, Climate and Societal Interactions Division ($448,346, based at the University of Miami): social science co-investigator. For analyzing impacts of the use of climate information on water decisions on different stakeholders in Ceará, Brazil.

2004-2005 – World Bank/Government of the State of Ceará ($100,000, based at Columbia University): co-principal investigator. For project on designing strategies for improving the effectiveness of the communication of climate information to diverse societal groups in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast.

Presentations and participation in academic meetings:

Conference presentations

2002 - Notes on the political economy of categories and labels in Argentinean soccer. IV Encuentro Deportes y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 16, 2002. Published at Educación Física y Deportes, Year 8, No. 55, December 2002.

2004 - Local culture, economic development, and disputes over the legitimate representation of the environment: the social life of climate information in the Brazilian Northeast. II International Conference on Sociocultural Research and Development, Paredes de Coura, Portugal, October 28 to 30, 2004.

2005a - The social communication of climate information: outline for a sociology of the field of climate communication in Northeast Brazil. I International Symposium on Climatology, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 23 to 27, 2005.

2005b - Of donkeys, rain prophets and meteorologists: notes on the political semiotics of climate in the Brazilian Northeast. Working group "Society and Nature in South America: Anthropological Theories, Cultural Practices and Environmental Conflicts." IV RAM - Anthropological Meeting of the MERCOSUR. Montevideo, Uruguay, November 16 to 18, 2005.

2006a - Understanding how meanings get transformed in the dissemination of climate information - the case of Northeast Brazil. 2006 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: Research and Applications on Use and Impacts. Tucson, Arizona, March 21, 2006.

2006b - Measuring the Impact of Improving Water Availability on Rural Household Welfare in Ceara, Brazil: A Multi-Output Primal Approach, com Valerie Mueller, Alexander Pfaff, e Kenneth Broad. North American Productivity Workshop, New York University, New York, June 29, 2006.

2007a - Decision making, cultural context, and the "human dimensions" of climate studies. XV annual meeting of the Society for Human Ecology, Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 2007.

2007b - Lambros Comitas Through His Visual Anthropology. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., November 28, 2007.

2007c - Watered Down Democratization: the effects of the modernization discourse on social participation in water management in Northeast Brazil. Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., November 30, 2007

2008a - Water Bargaining & Climate Adaptation: asymmetric access to information affects equity. Authors: PFAFF, Alexander; VELEZ, Maria Alejandra; BROAD, Kenneth; CORDEIRO, Julio Hercio Magalhães; TADDEI, Renzo. ECRG Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Series - World Bank. Washington, D.C., May 7, 2008.

2008b - The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Climate, Risk, and Blame in the Brazilian Northeast. Weather, Knowledge and Everyday Life - 2008 conference of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology. Rio de Janeiro, May 27, 2008.

Invited lectures

2001 - Notes on an ethnographic study on hooliganism in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies of the School of International and Political Affairs, Columbia University. New York, September 27, 2001.

2003a - Watered down democratization: water management in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast. Anthropology Programs Colloquium, Teachers College, Columbia University. New York, February 6, 2003.

2003b - Watered Down Democratization: Participatory Development in Water Management in Ceará, Brazil. Seminário Teórico-Metodológico del Proyecto Gestión de riesgo de desastre ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) en America Latina, Sección México. CIESAS - Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. México City, March 6, 2003.

2004a - Politics and gender in the Brazilian Northeast - Notes on the semiotics of political visibility. Anthropology Department, Social Sciences Division, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa. Mexico City, June 10, 2004.

2004b - The social life of water laws: notes and reflections on the Ceará case. Seminar in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Brazilian Water Law, organized by the Brazilian Association for Water Resources (ABRH). Fortaleza, July 9, 2004.

2005a - Lost in translation: drought, climate sciences and public policy in the Brazilian Northeast. Center for Brazilian Studies, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies of the School of International and Political Affairs, Columbia University. New York, March 31, 2005.

2005b - Drought, Climate Sciences, and Public Policy in Northeast Brazil. Conference on Vulnerability and Hydrometeorological Risk Management in Mexico (organizado pelo Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México e Colégio de México). Mexico City, May 26 and 27, 2005.

2005c - Climate sciences and society in the Brazilian Northeast: socio-anthropological contributions to understanding the communicative processes related to climate issues. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) - Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, June 1st, 2005.

2005d - Structure and process in evaluations on participation and decentralization in water management. Seminar on the "Evaluation of the Implementation of the National Water Resources Policies, in Brazil and in the State of Ceará", promoted by the Ceará State Metropolitan Basin Water Committee. Fortaleza, Brazil, August 11th, 2005.
2006a - Understanding how meanings get transformed in the dissemination of climate information - the case of Northeast Brazil. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University. New York, March 17, 2006.

2006b - Forecasting meanings: overcoming communicational barriers in the dissemination of
climate information. IRI Seminar - International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University. Palisades (NY), May 10, 2006.

2006c - The dissemination of meteorological information and the complex relationship between meteorology and society. Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Meteorological Society. Florianópolis, November 30, 2006.

2006d - The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters - Ethnographic Notes from Northeast Brazil. Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Yale University, Department of Anthropology, December 4, 2006.

2007a - The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Climate, Risk, and Blame in Northeast Brazil. Department of Anthropology Monday Seminar Series at the University of Chicago, March 26, 2007.

2007b - Why we need to understand how societies deal with uncertainty (if we want to understand how they deal with the climate). Picker Center in the School of International and Public Affairs/M.A. Program in Climate and Society, Columbia University, April 11, 2007.

2007c - Gender and the Semiotics of Political Visibility in the Brazilian Northeast. Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University, April 19, 2007.

2008 - A Comunicação da Informação Meteorológica: Algumas Contribuições das Ciências Sociais. XV Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia. São Paulo, August 28, 2008.

Management & Coordination:

State University of Campinas, Department of Anthropology. Member of the Executive Commission of the Cátedra Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, in cooperation with the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México. March 2008 to June 2009.

Yale University. Member of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies. New Haven, Connecticut (EUA). August 2006 to May 2007.

Society for Human Ecology. Co-coordinator of the sessions "Climate and Culture" I and II, with Susan Crate, Kathleen Halvorsen, and David Natcher, in the XV Annual Meetings of the SHE. Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 2007.

Engineers Without Borders. Member of the Faculty Committee, New York-Columbia University Chapter, 2007.

Advisement

Yale University, Departament of Anthropology, Senior Essay Advisor. Student: Alem Giorgis. Title: Water: Corporate Commodification vs. Human Right. Spring 2007

Yale University, Departament of Anthropology, Senior Essay Advisor. Student: Chloe Kolman. Title: National architecture and the formation of citizenship on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. Spring 2007

Yale University, Departament of Anthropology, Senior Essay Advisor. Student: Nicole Haab. Title: The Current State of Gang Activity and the Resulting Public Policy in Honduras. Spring 2007

Graduate commitees:

Yale University, Departament of Anthropology. PhD. Graduate Exams Committee member. Student: Ryan Sayre. Title: Taming the City: Earthquake Disaster Preparedness in Tokyo, Japan. Spring 2007

Yale University, Departament of Anthropology. PhD. Graduate Exams Committee member. Student: Lucia Cantero. Title: Taming the City: Advertising Pleasure and Death: Global Health Regimes, Big Tobacco, and the Cultural Politics of Transnational Marketing in Brazil. Spring 2007

State University of Campinas, Department of Anthropology. M.A. Graduate Exams Committee member. Student: Ana Carolina Bazzo da Silva. Advisor: Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida. Title: Entre Práticas e Narrativas: Um Olhar Sobre o Tempo nos Diários dos Escritores do Alto Juruá. December 11, 2008.

Columbia University, Teachers College. M.A. Graduate Exams Committee member. Student: Denise Graeff. Advisor: Lambros Comitas. Title: Pedro dos Santos (Slave labor in Brazil). May 7, 2009.

Extra curricular experience and public service:

1993-1994: Councilman at the University Council for Culture and Extension Activities, University of São Paulo.

1993-1994: President of the Student Senate of the Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil (Grêmio Politécnico).

1993-1994: Polytechnic Magazine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; member of the editorial council.

1993-1994: Overseer of the Polytechnic Preparatory Course (Cursinho da Poli). Brazilian NGO created to help underprivileged Brazilian high school students prepare for public university admission exams.

1995-1996: Folha de São Paulo Newspaper, São Paulo, Brazil. Manager of the Folha de São Paulo news and image agency (Agência Folha and Folha Imagem).

1997-2000: Free-lance photographer.

2007: Member of the Engineers Without Borders Faculty Advisory Committee, Columbia University.

Languages:

Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Reading proficiency in French and Italian.