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Junior and Senior
Fellows 2020
Maria Sibylla Merian Centre
Conviviality-inequality in latin aMeriCa
Welcome to Mecila
The Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in
Latin America (Mecila) is honoured to present its cohort of
Junior and Senior Fellows for 2020.
Mecila Fellows are a vital element of the Centre. The projects
they will develop at Mecila over six months represent the
thematic broadness of the Centre’s research program.
The group of Junior Fellows consists of distinguished
early-career scholars who have recently obtained their
doctoral degrees in the humanities or the social sciences.
Senior Fellows are internationally recognized scholars
who have a significant impact on their research field.
After application, the nine Fellows were decided upon
through a process based on transparent criteria. Every
year Mecila will host a new cohort of Junior and Senior
Fellows for a research stay at the Centre. We bring
together researchers from the most varied disciplines
and institutions to foster an interdisciplinary community
of excellent scholars who are interested in developing
research on the nexus between conviviality and inequality.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an
unprecedented and unforeseeable challenge for the whole
world, and scientific projects based on international
cooperation suffered its effect directly.
Exceptionally, instead of receiving our fellows at Mecila’s
headquarters in São Paulo, we implemented virtual
fellowships for this year’s cohort. Fellows will develop
her/his project from their home locations. All events and
outreach activities will also happen remotely, preserving
the well-being and safety of our members, while keeping
with the Centre’s high scientific standards.
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez*
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen • Germany
Selected Publications
Convivial Cultures in Settler-Colonial/
Migration Societies: The Case of Brazil
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Professor of General
Sociology at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She studied
Sociology, Political Sciences and Romance Studies. She
received the Augsburg Research Prize for Intercultural
Studies in 1999. She was Senior Lecturer at the University of
Manchester (UK) and Assistant Professor at the Universität
Hamburg.
She held Visiting Fellowships and Professorships at the
University of Alberta (Canada), University of London (UK),
the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre (USA), the
University of Albuquerque and the University of California,
Santa Cruz (UCSC, USA). She is Adjunct Faculty Professor
at the University of Alberta and a Visiting Professor at
Nelson Mandela University (South Africa). Broadly, her work
engages with affective labour, the structural violence of EU
migration control policies and institutional racism.
(2018): “Antifeminism and Racism in Times of Austerity”, in:
Winkel, Heidemarie and Tuzcu, Pinar (eds.), Women’s Studies International Forum, 68, 139-141.
(2018): “Care Work – International Perspectives and Reflections”,
in: Aulenbacher, Brigitte and Liebig, Brigitte (eds.), Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 1.
(2015) ed. with Shirley Anne Tate: Creolizing Europe. Legacies and Transformations. Liverpool University Press.
(2010): Migration, Domestic Work and Affect. New York: Routledge.
Senior FellowS 2020
Project at Mecila
*Pending Approval
Gregory Pappas
Texas A&M University • United States
Selected Publications
Project at Mecila
Gregory Fernando Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at Texas
A & M University. In 2018 he was Distinguished Research
Fellow for the Latino Research Initiative at The University
of Texas at Austin. Pappas works within the Latin American
philosophy and Pragmatist traditions in ethics and social-
political philosophy. He is the author of ‘John Dewey’s
Ethics: Democracy as Experience and Pragmatism in the
Americas’.
Dr Pappas has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship, the William James and Latin
American Thought prizes by the American Philosophical
Association, and the Mellow Prize by the Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy. He is the Editor-in-
Chief of The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. He was a
Fulbright scholar in Argentina and President of the Society
for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
(2018): “What is Going On? Where Do We Go from Here? Should
the Souls of White Folks Be Saved?”, in: The Pluralists, 13, 1.
(2017): “The Limitations and Dangers of Decolonial Philosophies:
Lessons from Zapatista Luis Villoro”, in: Radical Philosophy Review, 20, 2.
(2017): “Zapatismo, Luis Villoro, and American Pragmatism on
Democracy, Power, and Injustice”, in: The Pluralists, 12, 1.
(2011): Pragmatism in the Americas. Fordham: Fordham University Press.
Senior FellowS 2020
Injustice: An Inter-American and Community
of Inquiry Approach
Seth Racusen
Anna Maria College • United States
Selected Publications
Racial Discrimination, Citizenship and
Conviviality at Work
Project at Mecila
Seth Racusen holds a PhD in Political Science from the
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT, USA). He is
Associate Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice
at Anna Maria College, Paxton (USA). Formerly, he was a
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political and Social
Studies at the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro
(UERJ, Brazil) and Fellow at the Dubois Institute of Harvard
University (USA). He has secured grants from the American
Political Science Association, the US Fulbright Commission,
and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro.
Dr Racusen is a recognized source on Brazilian racial
discrimination law and affirmative action. His research
interests include Brazilian national ideology, racial identity,
racism, everyday citizenship and resistance, transitional
justice, and comparative racisms.
Senior FellowS 2020
(2019): “On the Jurisprudence of Workplace Discrimination”, in: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 39, 1.
(2016): “Kabengele Munanga”, in: Jr., Henry Louis Gates and Knight,
Franklin K. (eds.), Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2013): “The Ideology of the Brazilian Nation and the Brazilian Legal
Theory of Racial Discrimination.”, in: Harris, Angela P. (ed.), Race and Equality Law, Routledge.
(2012): “The Grammar of Color Identity in Brazil”, in: Reiter, Bernd and
Eison, Kimberly (eds.), Re-Examining the Black Atlantic: Afro-Descendants and Development, Michigan: Michigan State University Press.
Susana Durão
Universidade Estadual de Campinas • Brazil
Selected Publications
Intimate Security. The Economies and Labour
of Suspicion
Project at Mecila
(2020): “Bolsonaro’s Brazil and the Police Fetish”. Hot Spots,
Fieldsights, January 28.
(2016): “Brazilian Police: Cultural and Spriritual Battles”, The Funambulist - Special Issue: Police of Space and Bodies, 8.
(2017): “Detention: Police Discretion Revisited”, in: Fassin, Didier
(Ed.), Writing the World of Policing. The Difference Ethnography Makes,
London & Chicago, Chicago University Press.
(2016): Esquadra de Polícia. Lisboa, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos
Santos.
Senior FellowS 2020
Susana Durão is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil). She
was Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the
Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) and Visiting Scholar at the Summer
Program in Social Sciences of the Institute of Advanced Studies at
Princeton University (USA). She has coordinated the international
research project “Policing and Urban Imaginaries: New Security
Formats in Southern Cities” (2015-2019). Durão has secured grants
from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, Fundação para
a Ciência e Tecnologia in Portugal, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa
do Estado de São Paulo and the Ministry of Science, Technology
and Innovations (Brazil). She has been awarded the “Dedication to
Undergraduate Teaching” Prize from Unicamp in 1999.
Her areas of interest are public and private security, hospitality
security, urban violence, policing work and inequality, plural policing
studies and police training, following an urban ethnographic
perspective. She has conducted fieldwork in Portugal, Brazil, and
African Lusophone contexts.
Yves Cohen
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales • France
Selected Publications
Horizontality: Its Social, Historical and
Theoretical Reach. Approach of the Brazilian Case
Project at Mecila
Yves Cohen is directeur d’études (professor) at École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, France). He was a
visiting scholar at the Center of European Studies of Harvard
University in 2018-2019 and has also been a visiting scholar
on several Brazilian Universities, such as the Universidade de
São Paulo (USP), and the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
(UFJF), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).
He has devoted his work to the historical and analytical
study of practices. His current themes of interest are the
history and present of influencing practices (advertising,
marketing, propaganda, public relations, communication,
fake news, etc.) and the comparative and connected study of
horizontality in social life and social movements.
(2016) with Francis Chateauraynaud: Histoires Pragmatiques, Paris,
Éditions de l’EHESS.
(2016) “Qui a encore besoin du charisme ? Ou vers une histoire politique
des sens”, Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales, 1.
(2013): Le Siècle des Chefs. Une histoire transnationale du commandement et de l’autorité (1890-1940), Paris, Ed. Amsterdam.
(2010) “Circulatory Localities: The Example of Stalinism in the 1930s”,
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 11, 1. (translation
by Stephanie Lin)
Senior FellowS 2020
Clemente Penna
PhD: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
Selected Publications
Between Names and Sums of Money: The Convivial
Configurations of Rio de Janeiro’s Private Credit
Market c. 1820-1870
Project at Mecila
Clemente Penna holds a PhD in Social History from
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil), earned
in 2019, with a fellowship stay at the Center for the Study
of Slavery and Justice at Brown University (USA). He also
earned an MA in Cultural History from Universidade Federal
de Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil) in 2005 and a BA in History
from Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina in 2001
(UDESC, Brazil).
He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of
E-Learning Education at the Universidade do Estado de Santa
Catarina from 2001 to 2005 and, for the past years, has been
teaching history in the Adult Education program in the city
of Palhoça, Santa Catarina.
(2020): “Penhoras judiciais, crédito e propriedade escrava na cidade do
Rio de Janeiro, c. 1820 –1860”, in: Filho, Henrique Espada Lima and Júnior,
Waldomiro Silva, Escravidão e liberdade no Brasil oitocentista: novos olhares.
Florianópolis, EDUFSC.
(2019): “Economias urbanas: capital, créditos e escravidão na cidade do
Rio de Janeiro, c. 1820-1860”, PhD thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(2019): “Judicial Attachments and the Internal Slave Trade in Brazil, 1830-
1888“, in: Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade, East Lansing; Michigan.
(2018): “Slave Property and the Credit Market in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-
1850”, in: 6th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School,
Montevidéu.
Junior FellowS 2020
José Ricardo Castellón
PhD: Universität zu Köln • Germany
Selected Publications
Transformar la Familia para Superar la Desigualdad.
El Triángulo Norte y los Estados Unidos: El Pasado de
la Migración Centroamericana (1960-1980)
Project at Mecila
José Ricardo Castellón holds a PhD in History from
Universidad Pablo de Olavide at Sevilla, (Spain, 2013), and
a PhD in Philosophy (History) from Universität zu Köln
(UzK, Germany, 2018). He has been a lecturer, curriculum
developer, and consultant in communication and design.
He is a DAAD alumnus, member and Secretary of the
Salvadoran Academy of History and has been, since 2018,
lecturer and guest researcher at the Historical Institute of
the Universität zu Köln.
His research focuses on migrations (UNICEF award 2008),
family and mobility in Central America and the general
social history of Latin America. He also works on food
culture and celebrations, daily life and material culture.
(2019): Secretos de familia. La familia y su movilidad en El Salvador colonial. El
Salvador: UCA Editores.
(2014): “Fiestas, vida y comida en el interior del reino de Guatemala:
San Salvador y Sonsonate, siglo XVIII”. San Salvador: Universidad Don
Bosco.
(2018): “Movilidad y familia en el Pacífico Centroamericano. San
Salvador y Sonsonate en el siglo XVIII”, in: Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, 15, 1.
(2018) with Georgina Magali Méndez de Castellón:“Haciendo memoria.
Construir desde el olvido en El Salvador 25 años después de la firma
de los acuerdos de paz“, in: Martínez, Carmen González (coord.),
Transiciones políticas contemporáneas: singularidades nacionales de un fenómeno global. Fondo de Cultura Económica de España.
Junior FellowS 2020
Juliana Streva
PhD: Freie Universität Berlin • Germany
Selected Publications
“Quilombo” como Prática Decolonial de Convivialidade:
Aprendendo com “Quilombo Urbano” e “Mandata
Quilombo”
Project at Mecila
Juliana Streva holds a PhD in Human Rights from Freie
Universität Berlin (Germany) and a Master’s degree in Theory
of State and Constitutional Law from Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She was granted a Visiting
Fellowship at Brown University (USA) and Hebrew University
of Jerusalem (Israel).
Her critical interdisciplinary work is particularly engaged with
the interplay of corporality, colonial structures of violence
(encompassing politics, law, economy, ecology, ontology
and epistemology), intersectional feminisms and peripheral
insurgences. Her most recent works include the experimental-
documentary film ‘Women in Movement’ (2020),
contributions to the books ‘Corporeidades Afrodiaspóricas’
(2020) and ‘Materializing Feminism’ (2019), and the book
‘Corpo, Raça, Poder’ (2018).
(2020): “Corp(o)ralidade fanoniana: legado colonial & insurgências
anti-racistas”, in: Tavares, Julio Cesar de Souza (org.). Corporalidades
afrodiaspóricas. Curitiba: Appris Editora.
(2020): “Corpo, raça, poder: extermínio negro no Brasil. uma leitura
crítica, decolonial e foucaultiana”, Rio de Janeiro: Multifoco.
(2018): “Identitätspolitik postkolonial: Zur Debatte um Identitätspolitik
in Lateinamerika”, in: Beier, Friederike (org.), Materializing Feminism. Positionierungen zu Ökonomie, Staat und Identität, Münster: Unrast Verlag.
(2017): “A multidão no corpo e a multidão de corpos: um embate dos
conceitos de povo e multidão, e consenso e dissenso à luz dos escritos de
Hobbes e Spinoza”, in: Becker, Rafael (org.), Spinoza e nós. Volume: Spinoza, a guerra e a paz, Rio de Janeiro: Ed. PUC-Rio.
Junior FellowS 2020
Léa Tosold
PhD: University of São Paulo • Brazil
Selected Publications
Transmigration, conviviality, and the (dis)appearance
of the “racial”: rethinking memory politics through
intimate territorial ethnography of global connections
Project at Mecila
Léa Tosold holds an MA in Literature, Philosophy and
Political Science (Universität Wien, Austria), as well as in
Political Philosophy (University of York, England), and a PhD
in Political Science (Universidade de São Paulo-USP, Brazil).
She was the co-founder of the Gender and Politics Studies
Group (Gepô-USP) and is a member of the Anti-Racist
and Anti-Colonial Studies Intervention Collective (Gira), a
researcher of the Nexos Research Network (Universidade
Federal do ABC, Brazil) and the Political Theory Study Group
(Getepol/Universidade Estadual de Londrina-UEL).
Her main interest lies in feminist anti-racist epistemologies.
Currently, she is working on memory politics and its global-
local connections through intimate ethnographies and
collective territorialities.
(2018): “Autodeterminação em três movimentos: a politização de diferenças sob
a perspectiva da (des)naturalização da violência”, PhD Thesis, Universidade de
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
(2017): “Rompendo com a violência institucionalizada: reflexões sobre o corpo
enquanto locus analítico”, in: Machado, Carlos; Marques, Danusa; Tavares,
Francisco Mata Machado; Trindade, Thiago (orgs.), Democracia e desigualdade: registros críticos, Brasília: Zouk.
(2016): “Incluir diferenças (re)produzindo desigualdades? Os limites da
democracia deliberativa habermasiana através de um olhar crítico sobre a obra
de Iris Marion Young”, in: Pinzani, Alessandro and Schmidt, Rainer (org.), Um pensamento interdisciplinar: ensaios sobre Habermas, 1, Florianópolis: Nefiponline.
(2012): “Do problema do essencialismo a outra maneira de fazer política”, in:
Biroli, Flávia and Miguel, Luis Felipe (org.), Teoria política e feminismo: abordagens brasileiras, 1, Vinhedo: Editora Horizonte, 1-290.
Junior FellowS 2020
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