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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Politics Department

Title Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Major Politics

Affiliation Graduate

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Biography, Education and Training

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics Department. My research explores the subnational variation of healthcare outcomes in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. I am specifically interested in the interplay between belief in misinformation, institutional trust, political ideology, and state capacity to provide social policies at the local level. I explore these themes using a mixed-methods strategy with interviews, experimental survey designs, and quantitative analysis. 

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

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

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistantships:

POLI 17: US & the World Economy; POLI 140C: Latin American Politics; POLI 61: Politics of Social Policy; POLI 186/LGST 186: Global Health Politics and CGH1: Foundations of Global and Community Health; POLI 160A: Theories of International and World Politics; POLI 140A: European Politics. 

Awards, Honors and Grants

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

Selected Presentations

• International Studies Association 2024 Annual Convention. The threat of mis- and disinformation to the universalization of health services: evidence from Brazil. San Francisco, CA. 2024.
  
  
• 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. 

Selected Publications

• Book review: State-Sponsored activism: bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil. Social Movement Studies, v. 22, 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