Below is a list of doctoral dissertations defended at Brown in all fields related to Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. The list includes dissertations presented to the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, History, Linguistics, Music, Political Science, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, and Sociology.

2006

Pereira, Pedro Schartt, "Filósofos de Trazer-por-Casa: A Desconfiança da Filosofia como Motivo Literário na Ficção de Eça de Queirós, Machado de Assis e Raul Brandão" (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

Tosta, Antônio Luciano, "Confluence Narratives in the Literatures of the Americas" (Comparative Literature)

2004

Ferreira, Isabel A., "Memória e Império: Colonos e Famílias no Romance Português de Revisitação Africana dos Anos 90" (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

Moniz, Miguel, “Exiled Home: Criminal Deportee Forced Return Migrants and Transnational Identity, The Azorean Example” (Anthropology)

Simas-Almeida, Leonor "The Emotional Interplay Between Character and Reader in Madame Bovary, O Primo Bazilio and The Awakening" (Comparative Literature)

Woodard, James P. “A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt” (History)

2003

Malkin-Fontecchio, Tia Elizabeth, "Citizens or Workers: The Politics of Education in Northeast Brazil 1959-1964" (History)

Mulcahy, Maria Gloria, "The Portuguese of the U.S. from 1880 to 1990: Distinctiveness in Work Patterns Across Gender, Nativity and Place" (Sociology)

2002

Brockey, Liam M., "The Harvest of the Vine: the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in China, 1579-1710" (History)

Gordon, Richard A, “Reviewing the Colony/Revising the Nation: Mexican and Brazilian Cinematic Dialogues with Colonial texts.” (Hispanic Studies)

Moser, Robert Henry, The Carnivalesque Defunto: Death and the Dead in Modern Brazilian Literature." (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)



2001

Allen, Scott J., “Zumbi Nunca Vai Morrer: History, the Practice of Archaeology and Race Politics in Brazil.” (Anthropology)

Kearney, Christine A., “The Comparative Influence of Neoliberal Ideas: Economic Culture and Stabilization in Brazil.” (Political Science)

Morgan, Zachary A. “Legacy of the Lash: Blacks and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy 1860-1910.” (History)

2000

Freitas, Marcus Vinicius, Charles Frederick Hart: Um Naturalista no Império de Pedro II." (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

1999

Lokensgard, Mark A.,"Mário de Andrade's and the Short Story: the Impartial Observer Comes Clean.” (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

Lubkemann, Stephen, "Situating Wartime Migration: Engendered Social Struggle and the Transnationalization of Polygyny in Central Mozambique." (Anthropology)

Mota, Katia Maria Santos, "Brazilian Immigrants in the United States: Paths of Identities within a Bilingual Context.” (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

1998

Bora, Zélia Monteiro., “Identidade Nacional e Discurso Periférico em Macunaíma e Los Rios Profundos." (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

Davila, Walter J.J., "'Perfecting the Race': Education and Social Discipline in Brazil's Vargas Era, 1930-1945.” (History)

1997

Hurley-Glowa, Susan Margaret, "Batuko and Funana: Musical Traditions of Santiago, Republic of Cape Verde" (Music)

Sobral, Patricia Isabel Santos, "Belonging and Displacement: Cultural Interspaces in Brazilian Literature.” (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

1996

Dunn, Christopher John, "The Relics of Brazil: Modernity and Nationality in the Tropicalista Movement." (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

1995

Harrison, Marguerite Itamar, "Filial Failures: Family Discourse in Contemporary Brazilian fiction.” (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

Parker, Naomi, “A Fé Perante a Fogueira: O Apelo Bíblico ao Cristão Novo na Consolação as Tribulações de Israel." (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)

1994

Douglass, Ellen H., “Myth as Muteness, Myth as Voice: Feminism, Quest and Imperalism.” (Comparative Literature)

Harrington, Thomas S., "The Pedagogy of Nationhood: Concepts of National Identity in the Iberian Peninsula 1874-1925.” (Hispanic Studies)

1991

Liedke Filho, Enno D, "Sociology and Society in Brazil and Argentina 1954-1985.” (Sociology)

1988

Liedke, Elida Rubini, "Labor Control in Dependent Development: A Case Study of the Brazilian Electronics Industry in Rio Grande do Sul.” (Sociology)

1985

Becker, Adeline, "The Role of the Public Schools in Maintenance and Change of Ethnic Group Affiliation.” (Anthropology)

Soares, Dulce Maria Medeiros, "An Historical Analysis of Underdevelopment and Dependent Development: Portugal from the 16th to the 19th Century.” (Sociology)

1983

Valente, Luiz Fernando, "The Reader in the Work: Fabulation and Affective Response in João Guimarães Rosa and William Faulkner.” (Comparative Literature)

1981

Maia, Eleonora Albano da Motta, "Phonological and Lexical Processes in a Generative Grammar of Portuguese.” (Linguistics)

1980

Moniz, Rita, "The Portuguese of New Bedford, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island: A Comparative Micro-analysis of Political Attitudes and Behavior.” (Sociology)

1979

Brettell, Caroline Bieler, "Hope and Nostalgia: The Migration of Portuguese Women to Paris.” (History)

Cabral, Stephen L., "Portuguese-American Feasting: Tradition and Change in New Bedford, Massachusetts.” (Anthropology)

Correia, Jane Carvalho, "An Unconventional View of the Brazilian Woman in Jorge Amado's Gabriela, Cravo e Canela and Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos.” (Hispanic Studies)

Meintel, Deirdre, "Cape Verdean-Americans: Their Cultural and Historical Background.” (Anthropology)

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