Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor of

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in the School of Communications at the

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and the recipient of a

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. Jaguaribe has written on

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and

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in contemporary Brazil. Among her publications are ''Fins de Século: Cidade e Cultura no Rio de Janeiro'' (1998), published by Rocco, and ''Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro'' (2001), published by Sextante Artes. Jaguaribe works on the relationship between artistic production and lived experiences in the production of cultural maps of urban Brazil. In 2001 Jaguaribe was Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture at the

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's Kellogg School of International Studies. She was awarded a

in 2004. In the 2012-2013 academic year Jaguaribe was the Andrés Bello Chair In Latin American Cultures And Civilizations at

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's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Jaguaribe served as a contributing editor of ''

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'', a scholarly journal published by

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, and she serves as a Corresponding Editor for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR).

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