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Maxine L. Margolis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"Margolis\"Professor Emerita, University of Florida and Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My research specialties include Brazilian culture and society, international migration and gender roles cross-culturally. One of my books, Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed<\/em> (1984), analyzes the material causes for shifts in American attitudes towards women’s employment, housework and child care from Colonial days to the present. A new edition, True to Her Nature<\/em>, was published in 2000.Her most recent publication dealing with gender roles is Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage and Motherhood<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Over the last two and one half decades my research has focused on Brazilian emigration. In addition to numerous articles, I have written three books on the subject: Little Brazil: Brazilian Immigrants in New York City<\/em> (1994); An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City<\/em> (2009); and Goodbye Brazil: Emigr\u00e9s from the Land of Soccer and Samba<\/em> (2013). The latter book was published in Portuguese as Goodbye Brazil: Emigrantes Brasileiros no Mundo<\/em>, also in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Email: maxinem@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected 2009
\nLifetime Contribution Award, Brazilian Studies Association, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Personal Information<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

137 East 36th Street, Apt. 23F
\nNew York, New York 10016<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

870 Scott Greene Road
\nRoxbury, New York 12474<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

B.A. New York University, 1964, Anthropology
\nPh.D. Columbia University, 1970, Anthropology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1970-74
\nAssociate Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1974-83
\nVisiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University, London Study Centre, 1982
\nProfessor of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1983-present
\nVisiting Professor, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, 1997
\nProfessor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Florida, 2008-present
\nAdjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs & Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 2008-present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Fellowships and Grants<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Fulbright-Hays Graduate Research Fellowship, 1967-68
\nNational Science Foundation Research Grant, 1971
\nWenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant, 1971
\nTinker Foundation Publication Stipend, 1978
\nFulbright Research Fellowship in Brazil, 1978
\nWenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant, 1988
\nNational Science Foundation Research Grant, 1994
\nFulbright Senior Lecturer\/Researcher, Brazil, 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Languages<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Portuguese (fluent); Spanish (good); French (fair)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Field Research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bahia, Brazil, 1965, 1982; Paran\u00e1, Brazil, l966, 1967-1968,\u00a01978; Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1990; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1997; Eastern Paraguay, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

New York City, 1988-1989.\u00a01990-1999; 2000-present;\u00a0 Danbury, Connecticut, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books, sole authored<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1973 The Moving Frontier: Social and Economic Change in a Southern Brazilian Community<\/em>. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1984 Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed<\/em>. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (paperback edition, 1985).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1994 Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York<\/em> City. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1994 Little Brazil: Imigrantes Brasileiros em Nova York<\/em>, revised Portuguese language edition of Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City<\/em>. Campinas, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil: Papirus Editora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1998 An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City<\/em>. New Immigrants Series. Nancy Foner, series ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2000 True to Her Nature: Changing Advice to American Women<\/em>. Prospect Heights, IL:Waveland Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2009 An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City<\/em>. Expanded and revised edition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2013 Goodbye Brazil: Emigr\u00e9s from the Land of Soccer and Samba<\/em>. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2013 Goodbye Brazil: Emigrantes Brasileiros no Mundo<\/em>. S\u00e3o Paulo: Editora Contexto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2020 Women and Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage and Motherhood<\/em>. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books, co-edited<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1979 Brazil: Anthropological Perspectives, e<\/em>d. with William E. Carter. New York: Columbia University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1995 Science, Materialism and the Study of Culture: Readings in Cultural Materialism<\/em>, ed.\u00a0<\/em>with Martin F. Murphy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1972 Brazilian Agricultural Cycles: What Happens to the Community? The Latinamericanist<\/em> 7(3):104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1972 The Coffee Cycles on the Paran\u00e1 Frontier. Luso-Brazilian Review<\/em> 9(1):3-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1975 The Ideology of Equality on a Brazilian Sugar Plantation. Ethnology<\/em> l4(4):373-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1976 In Hartford, Hannibal, and (New) Hampshire, Heloise is Hardly Helpful. Ms. Magazine<\/em> 9(2):28-36, June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1977 Historical Perspectives on Frontier Agriculture as an Adaptive Strategy. American Ethnologist<\/em> 4(1):42-64<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1978 From Betsy Ross Through Rosie the Riveter: Changing Attitudes Towards Women in the Labor Force. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology<\/em> 3(1):1-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1979 Seduced and Abandoned: Agricultural Frontiers in Brazil and the United States. In Brazil: Anthropological Perspectives, <\/em>ed. by Maxine L. Margolis and William E. Carter, pages 160-79. New York: Columbia University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1979 Green Gold and Ice: The Impact of Frost on the Coffee Growing Region of Northern Paran\u00e1, Brazil. Mass Emergencies<\/em> 4:135-44 [Special Issue on Natural Disasters and Economic Development].<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1980 Natural Disaster and Socioeconomic Change: Post-Frost Adjustments in Paran\u00e1, Brazil. Disasters: International Journal of Disaster Studies and Practice<\/em> 4(2):231-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1982 Blaming the Victim: Ideology and Sexual Discrimination in the Contemporary United States. In Researching American Culture: A Guide for Student Anthropologists<\/em>, ed. by Conrad Phillip Kottak, pages 212-26. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1987 The Mismeasure of Woman. Florida Journal of Anthropology<\/em> 12(1):1-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1989 A New Ingredient in the `Melting Pot’: Brazilians in New York City. CITY & SOCIETY<\/em> 3(2):179-87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1989 The Bi-National Frontier of Eastern Paraguay. Co-authored with John F. Wilson and James Diego Hay. In The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin American<\/em>, ed. by Debra A. Schumann and William L. Partridge, pages 199-237. Boulder: Westview Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1990 From Mistress to Servant: Downward Mobility Among Brazilian Immigrants in New York City. Urban Anthropology<\/em> 19(3):1-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1992 Anthropologists at Work: First Home: Brazilians in New York City. In Discovering Anthropology<\/em>, by Daniel R. Gross, pages 532-33. Mayfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1992 Women in International Migration: The Case of Brazilians in New York City. Conference Paper No. 66<\/em>. Columbia University-New York University Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1992 Turning the Tables?: Male Strippers and the Gender Hierarchy in America. Co-authored with Marigene Arnold. In Sex and Gender Hierarchies<\/em>, ed. by Barbara D. Miller, pages 334-50. New York: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1994 Immigration Chaos Keeps U.S. in Cheap Labor. New York Times<\/em>, Sept 21, p. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1995 Social Class, Education and the Brain Drain among Brazilian Immigrants to the United States. Network<\/em> 5(1):6. Centro de Estudos Norte-Americanos, Conjunto Universit\u00e1rio Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1995 Transnationalism and Popular Culture: The Case of Brazilian Immigrants in the United States. Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 29(1):29-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1997 Brazilians. American Immigrant Cultures, e<\/em>d. by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Macmillan Reference, pp. 99-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1997 O Imigrante Instru\u00eddo. Op-ed article in Jornal do Brasil<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1998 Do Looks Matter at the Border? New York Times<\/em>, January 28, p. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1998 We Are Not Immigrants: Contested Categories Among Brazilians in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. In Diasporic Identity<\/em>, ed. by Carol A. Mortland. Selected Papers in Refugee and Immigrant Issues Vol. VI<\/em>. General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, pp. 30-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2000 Some Political Dimensions of Transnationalism: The Brazilian Case. Network<\/em> 9(2):7. Centro de Estudos Norte-Americanos, Conjunto Universit\u00e1rio Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Dr. Norma Wollner, Eminent Brazilian Immigrant. In Making It in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic American<\/em>s, Elliot R. Barkan, ed. ABC-Clio Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Putting Mothers on the Pedestal. In Family Patterns, Gender Relation<\/em>, 2nd edition, ed. by Bonnie J. Fox. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Brazil. In Countries and Their Cultures<\/em>. (with M.E. Bezerra and J.M. Fox), ed. by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. New York: Macmillan Reference, pp. 283-301.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 With New Eyes: Returned International Immigrants in Rio de Janeiro. In Ra\u00edzes e Rumos: Perspectivas Interdisciplinares em Estudos Americanos,<\/em> ed. by Sonia Torres. Rio de Janeiro: Editora 7 Letras, pp. 239-244.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Introduction. The Rise of Anthropological Theory<\/em>, Marvin Harris (orig. 1968). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, pp. vii-xiii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Notes on Transnational Migration: The Case of Brazilian Immigrants. In Negotiating Transnationalism: Selected Papers in Refugese and Immigrants<\/em>, ed. by Marycarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier. General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, pp. 202-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2001 Separation and Divorce in Brazilian Immigrant Families. In Contemporary Ethnic Families in the United States: Characteristics, Variations, and Dynamics<\/em>, ed. by Nijole V. Benokraitis. New York: Prentice Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2002 After Little Brazil: Brazilian Immigrants in the Contemporary United States. JCAS Symposium Series 19, Emigracion Latinoamericana: Comparacion Interregional entre America del Norte, Europa y Japon<\/em>. Japan Center for Area Studies, Osaka, Japan, pages 43-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2003 Bibliographical Essay: Marvin Harris. With Conrad Phillip Kottak. American Anthropologist<\/em> 105(3):685-688.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2003 Na virada do mil\u00eanio: A emigra\u00e7\u00e3o brasileira para os Estados Unidos. (At the Turn of the Millenium: Brazilian Emigration to the United States\u201d) In Fronteiras Cruzadas: Etnicidade, G\u00eanero e Redes Sociais ((Crossing Frontiers: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Networks)<\/em>, ed. by Ana Cristina Braga Martes and Soraya Fleischer. Petropolis, RJ, Brazil: Editora Paz e Terra, pages 51-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2004 The Relative Status of Men and Women. In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World\u2019s Cultures<\/em>, ed. by Carol Ember and Melvin Ember. Kluwer Academic\/Plenum, pages 137-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2004 Brazilians in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Paraguay. In Encyclopedia of Diaspora<\/em>s, ed. by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember & Ian Skoggard. Kluwer Academic\/Plenum, pp. 602-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2004 Be Careful What You Wish For. Anthropology News<\/em> 45 (Sept):3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2005 Involving the Brazilian Diaspora in Brazilian Studies. Lasa Forum<\/em> XXXVI (2):11-12. Latin American Studies Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2005 Brazilians in New York State. In The Encyclopedia of New York State<\/em>, ed. by Peter Eisenstadt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2006 Marvin Harris. In Encyclopedia of Anthropology<\/em>, ed. by H. James Birx. New York: Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2006 Prefacio. O Manuel do Imigrante<\/em>, by Joceli Meyer and Eryck Duran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2007 Becoming Brazucas: Brazilian Identity in the United States. Proceedings of the Symposium \u201cWhat About the Other Latinos? Central and South Americans in the United States.\u201d<\/em> David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, pages 210-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008 Race in Brazil. In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Vol. 1<\/em>, ed. by John H. Moore. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 245-249.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008 September 11 & Transnationalism: The Case of Brazilian Immigrants in the United States. Human Organization<\/em> 67(1):1-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008 Children of Immigrants. New York Times<\/em>, January 28, p. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008 Brazilian Americans. In Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society<\/em>, ed. by Richard T, Schaefer. New York: Sage, pp. 204-05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2008 Brazilian Immigration to the U.S.: Future Research & Issues for the New Millennium. In Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the U.S.<\/em>, ed. by Leticia Braga and Cl\u00e9mence Jou\u00ebt-Pastr\u00e9. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 339-63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2009 Brasileiros no Estrangeiro: A etnicidade, a auto-identidade e o \u201coutro.\u201d Revista de Antropologia<\/em> 51(1):283-302. S\u00e3o Paulo: Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2010 Foreward. In Visible Migrants: The Health and Socioeconomic Integration of Brazilians in the Boston Metropolitan Area<\/em>, ed. by Marcelli, Enrico, Louisa Holmes, David Estella and Fausto da Rocha. Brazilian Imnmigrant Center and San Diego State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2011 The Brazilian Exodus. In Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic<\/em>, ed. by John J. Crocitte. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 219-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2013 Brazilians, 1940-Present. In Encyclopedia of Immigration, <\/em>ed. by Elliott Barkan. ABC-CLIO, 3:775-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2013 \u201cCultural Materialism.\u201d In Encyclopedia of Theory in Anthropology<\/em>, ed. by Richard L. Warms and Jon McGee. New York: Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2014 \u201cCharles Wagley: Mentor and Colleague.\u201d Boletim de Museu Goeldi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2015 \u201cDekasseguis<\/em>: Japanese Brazilians Abroad.\u201d LASA Forum<\/em> XLVI (4) October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2017 \u201cThey Look Like Us but They Don\u2019t Act Like Us\u201d: The Transnational Experience of Japanese Brazilians in Japan. In Global Latinos: Latin American Diasporas and Regional Migrations<\/em>, ed. by Mark Overmyer-Vel\u00e1quez and Enrique Sep\u00falveda. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 163-81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2018 \u201cO que \u00e9 ser brasileiro na emigra\u00e7\u00e3o??\u201d In A nova face da emigra\u00e7\u00e3o internacional no Brasil.<\/em> Lucia B\u00f3gus and Rosana Baeninger, eds. S\u00e3o Paulo: Editora da Pontif\u00edcia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica de S\u00e3o Paulo, pp. 19-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2020 \u201cTrump e Bolsonaro: Aves de Mesma Plumagem,\u201d Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> On-Line, August 19. https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/opiniao\/2020\/08\/trump-e-bolsonaro-aves-de-mesma-plumagem.shtml<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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