Director

James N. Green, Associate Professor of History

As Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Professor James Green has focused on forging links between Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Hispanic Studies, the Center for Race and Ethnicity, and Latin America Studies. He has worked on developing Latin America-related events and academic opportunities at Brown, including the Film and Lecture Series; crafting a more visible community of Latin America scholars and interested students; developing relationships with Latin American immigrant and activist groups in Providence; and raising the Brown CLACS to the level of other nationally-recognized Centers, especially through the application for and acquisition of a Title VI grant from the Department of Education.

Professor Green is also appointed as an Associate Professor in the History Department. He has recently finished the manuscript, “We Cannot Remain Silent”: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85, under contract with Duke University Press. This past spring two volumes he edited were published in Brazil. Frescos Trópicos: fontes sobre a homossexualidade masculina no Brasil (1870-1980) is an annotated collection of documents on the history of male homosexuality in twentieth-century Brazil. The second volume, Olhares sobre a homossexualidade em São Paulo, contains an unpublished manuscript, which is the first modern academic study of homosexuality in Brazil, and a collection of essays by Brazilian historians and anthropologists that comment on this unique document.

Fall 2008 Classes:

HIST 0970B - Tropical Delights: Imagining Brazil in History and Culture (First Year Seminar)
HIST 1670 - History of Brazil