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Brodwyn Fischer Modern Brazil and Latin America Office: 25 Harris |
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Brodwyn Fischer (Ph.D., Harvard, 1999) specializes in modern Brazil and Latin America, with an emphasis on histories of law, cities and social inequality. In 2006, she completed work on a book entitled A Poverty of Law: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro, under contract with Stanford University Press. The book is based in part on her dissertation, which received awards from Harvard University and from the New England Council of Latin American Studies. Fischer has also published on issues of race, criminal justice, and urban inequality in the Latin American Research Review and in several essay collections in the United States and Brazil. A recipient of grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fischer was recently one of 60 scholars nationwide awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. In 2006-7, she was also named the Jorge Paulo Lemann visiting scholar at Harvard University, where she has begun work on a new book project entitled “Migrants to Freedom? Abolition, Urbanization, and Property in Brazil, 1880-1970." |
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