Viviane Kraieski de Assunção
Brazil-Sustainability Fellow, Spring 2023
Phone: (619) 594-4771
Email: [email protected]

Professor of the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (PPGCA) at the University of the Catarinense Extreme South (UNESC) She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2011), and was a doctoral fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She holds a master's degree in Social Anthropology (2007) and a B.A. in Journalism (2002) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She did postdoctoral work in Social Anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam (2012-2013). She coordinates the Environment, Culture and Society Research Group (GPMACS). Her research mainly focuses on the following themes: environmental risks and disasters; environment and traditional knowledge; food, consumption and disposal; urban environment and the social production of space.

Camila Pierobon
Research Fellow
Phone: (619) 594-4771
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Camila Pierobon is Research Fellow of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Science from the Rio de Janeiro State University. Her research deals with the everyday problems that low-income families face in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on making-home in relation to access to potable water and sewage. Dr. Pierobon is currently working to build the "Brazilian Urban Waters" with the objective of understanding how the different waters act in the production of urban space. The network operates on two work fronts. The first one focuses on ethnographic research that seeks to understand the uses of different waters in the urban space (rivers, seas, rains, floods, lakes, ponds and pools) in relation to scarcity, excess, toxicity, environmental and climate change. The second front analyzes the federal, state, and municipal regulatory frameworks related to water and sewage, and surveys quantitatively and qualitatively the formal water and sewage distribution network in metropolitan regions.