historian
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and
anthropologist
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. She is a
doctor
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** Physician
** Surgeon
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** Optometrist
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in
social anthropology
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at the
University of São Paulo
The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...
, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at
Princeton University
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.
Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the
Brazilian Empire
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,
social identity
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In sociology, emphasis is placed on collective identity, in which ...
,
slavery
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and
race relations
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between
White
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and
Afro-Brazilian
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peoples.
Schwarcz is
Jewish
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. In 1986, she co-founded the
Companhia das Letras
Companhia das Letras is the largest publishing house in São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded by Luiz Schwarcz and his wife Lilia Moritz Schwarcz in 1986. Companhia das Letras began as a literary publishing house and gradually grew into 17 independen ...
publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz. She is a curator for the
São Paulo Museum of Art
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, and writes a column at the news website .
Bibliography
* ''Retrato em branco e negro: jornais, escravos e cidadãos em São Paulo no fim do século XIX''.
Companhia das Letras
Companhia das Letras is the largest publishing house in São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded by Luiz Schwarcz and his wife Lilia Moritz Schwarcz in 1986. Companhia das Letras began as a literary publishing house and gradually grew into 17 independen ...
, 1987.
* * (English edition: )
* As Barbas do Imperador (English edition:''The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and His Tropical Monarchy in Brazil''. Hill and Wang, 2003. )
* ''O Império em Procissão'' - Zahar, 2000.
* ''A Longa Viagem da Biblioteca dos Reis - Do terremoto de Lisboa à Independência do Brasil''. Companhia das Letras, 2002.
* ''O Sol do Brasil: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay e as Desventuras Dos Artistas Franceses na Corte de D. João 1816-1821''. Companhia das Letras, 2008. - Prêmio Jabuti - Melhor Biografia 2009
* ''D. João Carioca - A corte portuguesa chega ao Brasil 1808-1821''. Companhia das Letras, 2008.
* ''Um enigma chamado Brasil ''(Org. com André Botelho). ''Companhia das Letras, 2009. - Prêmio Jabuti - Ciências Sociais 2010''
* ''Agenda brasileira'' (Org. com André Botelho). Companhia das Letras, 2011.
* ''História do Brasil Nação Vol. 3 - A abertura para o mundo 1889-1930'' (Org. do volume e Diretora da Coleção). Objetiva, 2012.
* ''Nem preto nem branco, muito pelo contrário''. Claro Enigma (Companhia das Letras), 2012.
* ''A batalha do Avaí - a beleza da barbárie: a Guerra do Paraguai pintada por Pedro Américo''. Rio de Janeiro, Sextante. 2013.
* ''Brasil: uma Biografia'' (co-written with Heloisa Murgel Starling). Companhia das Letras. 2015. (English edition: ''Brazil, a Biography.''