Manuela Cordeiro
Brazil-Sustainability Fellow, Fall 2022
Phone: (619) 594-4771
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Cordeiro holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional – Federal University of Rio Janeiro (PPGAS/MN/UFRJ) and professor at Institute of Anthropology at Federal University of Roraima (INAN/UFRR). Her thesis is on land occupation and family trajectories in rural settlements created during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil.  She has a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Social, Political, and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, researching the dynamics and strategies of neo-rural phenomena in Portugal's countryside. Her main areas of expertise are Trajectories of migration and occupation of territories; Land conflicts and overlaps; Gender; Local knowledge and agriculture in indigenous lands, and socio-environmental conflicts. She has worked in several states in Brazil: Roraima, Rondônia, Tocantins, and Rio de Janeiro, mainly in rural settlements and indigenous lands.

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.