Graduate Student Directory

Biography, Education and Training

I am a Ph.D. student in the Politics Department and assistant editor at Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Brazilian Journal of International Politics). My main interests are in the realm of comparative politics, misinformation, public health policies, and neoconservatism in Latin America (focus: Brazil). 

MA, International Relations, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. 

BA, International Relations, with honors, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Chancellor's Fellowship (2021-22)
• Dean's Research Travel Grant (2022, 2023)

Selected Publications

• Book review: State-Sponsored activism: bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil. Social Movement Studies. 2023
  
  
• with Yasmin Calmet. 2021. "Popularity, public health and security: The convoluted conundrum of Brazil's COVID-19 response”, in Security and Safety in the Era of Global Risks, edited by Compel, R.& Hall, R. 
  
  
• with Roberta de Freitas Campos. 2020. “Reinventing the wheel? The convergence between the SDGs and the UN documents for non-communicable diseases risk factors”. Meridiano 47 - Journal of Global Studies 21 (setembro).  
  
  

• Book review: "Africa and Global Health Governance: Domestic Politics and International Structures". South African Journal of International Affairs, v. 27, p. 1-3, 2020.
  
  
• "O Brasil na Guerra Fria: autonomia heterodoxa e a Política Externa Independente" ["Brazil in the Cold War: heterodox autonomy and the independent foreign policy"]. Carta Internacional, v. 13, p. 83-108, 2018

Selected Presentations

• 20th Lusophone and Hispanic Conference [Re]Framing Knowledge. Decolonizing global health in Latin America: overcoming regional challenges through endogenous knowledge. 2021.
  
  
• V Congreso Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Salud Global. Desde lo global a lo local: la regulación de los factores de riesgo para enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles en Chile. Medellín, Colombia. 2018.
  
  
• 9th Congress of the Latin American Political Science Association. The Brazilian Ethanol Policy from 2003 to 2016: an Exploratory Study about the Interrelations Between Domestic and International Politics. Montevideo, Uruguay. 2017. 

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistant:
Spring 2023: POLI 17: US & the World Economy, Prof. Scott Newsome. 
Winter 2023: POLI 140C: Latin American Politics, Prof. Kent Eaton. 
Fall 2022: POLI 61: Politics of Social Policy, Prof. Sara Niedzwiecki.

Reader:
Winter 2022: POLI 186/LGST 186: Global Health Politics, Prof. Matthew Sparke.