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Brodwyn Fischer
Modern Brazil and Latin America
Office: 1800 Sherman #505
Phone: 847-491-7557
E-mail: b-fischer
northwestern.edu
Brodwyn Fischer (Ph.D., Harvard, 1999) specializes in modern Brazil and Latin America, with an emphasis on histories of law, cities and social inequality. Her book, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro (Stanford, 2008) won the Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award in 2007. 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. Fischer has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2006-7, she was named the Jorge Paulo Lemann visiting scholar at Harvard University, where she began work on a new book project entitled “Migrants to Freedom? Abolition, Urbanization, and Property in Brazil, 1880-1970." At Northwestern, Fischer also directs the Program on Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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