Brazilian Studies Research, PhD

The Brazil Institute offers supervision for MPhil/PhD research degrees relating to Brazil and draws on academic expertise in a range of disciplinary departments across the College. Supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other staff of the College. The following academic staff offer research supervision in the Brazil Institute. Detailed staff profiles can be found on the Brazil Institute website.

Professor Anthony Pereira (Director of the King's Brazil Institute):
Comparative politics; democracy and authoritarianism; political regimes and regime change; military rule; social movements; citizenship and human rights; new institutions of accountability in Brazilian public security; Brazil's political, economic, and social transformation in the 20th and early 21st century.

Dr Alvaro Comin:
Urban and regional studies; São Paulo as a city-region and global city; inequality within 60 major cities in Brazil; the relationship between national strategies of economic development, spacial inequalities, and urban landscapes; the history of economic thought in Brazil; social networks and knowledge in developing countries' city-regions (India and Brazil).

Dr Maite Conde:
Brazilian film; the relationship between cinema and modernity in Brazil; film history and historiography; film and urban culture; Brazilian cultural theory and philosophy.

Jeffrey Garmany:
Brazil in the twenty-first century; the geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalisation; emergent forms of civil association relative to state-based rule; the relationships between drugs, violence, and death in contemporary urban space; governance in favelas; globalisation; the environment.

STUDY ENVIRONMENT
The university libraries, the British Library and the diverse cultural venues of London make the city a resource centre for Brazilian Studies which is unparalleled in Europe.
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
We offer a research seminar series, and students can attend MA lectures, subject to the agreement of the relevant teacher. Students can also participate in the induction and training programmes offered by the College.
CURRENT STAFF RESEARCH PROJECTS: Social networks and knowledge in developing countries' city-regions; Cinematic spectacles of modernity: early film in Brazil; The geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalization; The performance of police ombudsmen in Pernambuco and São Paulo, Brazil
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS: The Institute is closely involved in the College's key partnership with the University of São Paulo, as well as a number of other institutional and departmental partnerships in Brazil, with the possibility of research exchanges for postgraduate students.
DURATION: Expected to be: MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT. Normal start date September but students may commence at other times by arrangement.