Flavia Soares

Core Faculty

Luciano N. Cruz
Office: NH-212
Email: [email protected]

Viviane Kraieski de Assunção
Office: AL-522
Email: [email protected]

Viviane Kraieski de Assunção is currently visiting professor at San Diego State University and professor in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program (PPGCA) at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (UNESC). She holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and completed a doctoral internship at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She was post-doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the leader of the Environment, Culture and Society Research Group (GPMACS). She supervises and conducts research mainly on the following topics: development projects and environmental impacts; food, consumption and disposal; urban environment, cultures and socio-spatial practices. She is currently conducting research on the social effects of lithium extraction in Southern California.

Arthur Schott Lopes
Office: AL 561
Email: [email protected]

Arthur Schott Lopes is an assistant professor of Brazilian history. Schott Lopes earned an M.A. in the social sciences and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in history at Harvard College. He is a political historian of Brazil interested in the nexus between institutional conflict and the violence of everyday life; in histories of politics that go beyond national and state capitals; in borderlands and frontiers; and in the intersection between political, economic, and environmental history.

His first book project is a history of military intervention into land conflict at Brazil’s Triple Border with Argentina and Paraguay during the 20th century. The project reassesses civilian-military relations away from barracks and government palaces, demonstrating how military actors became political players on the ground before Brazil’s military coup of 1964, and how they helped build a rural political economy grounded on environmental and human exploitation well before the military dictatorship’s 1970s Amazonian colonization policies.

Abner Sótenos
Office: TBA
Email: [email protected]