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Academic Employment
 

Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
2018 - present
I teach courses on U.S. Race Relations, Globalization for undergraduate students and Immigration graduate students. I am also affiliated faculty in the International Affairs Program for undergraduates. Please see my projects page for more about my research agenda.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University

2013 - 2018 (research leave 2015-2016, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University)

I taught courses on Ethnic and Racial Relations in the U.S., Global Issues and the United Nations, and Global Social Problems for undergraduate students, and Global Sociology for graduate students. 

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, Harvard University

​2011 - 2013

 

I conducted research on immigrants' access to healthcare in Boston and developed a stronger understanding of health policy.

 

 
Languages

English (Native Speaker)

Brazilian Portuguese (Fluency)

Spanish (Advanced Proficiency)

 

Research Interests

Race and Ethnicity in the Americas

Immigration and Policy

Health and Healthcare Policy

Minorities in Academia

University of Michigan- Ann Arbor:  Ph.D in Sociology

2011 

 

My dissertation entitled "'Race and ‘Making America’ in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the U.S. and Brazil” explored how U.S. migration influenced the racial conceptions of Brazilian return migrants in Governador Valadares, Brazil.

 

 
Brown University: BA in Sociology and Ethnic Studies (Honors)

​2004 

 

My honors senior thesis entitled "Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement 1960-1970" examined the sexism and patriarchy black women experienced during their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. I was also selected as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, through which I conducted this research.

Education
 

2010 - present

2010 - present

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