Interview with Vânia Penha-Lopes

Abstract

The Revista Sociologias Plural interviewed Professor Vânia Penha-Lopes, who agreed to talk with us while teaching the mini-course "Compared Race Relations: Brazil and USA" promoted by  Graduate Program in Sociology. Vânia Penha-Lopes, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Bloomfield College in New Jersey, USA, co-director of the Columbia University Seminar in New York (2010-present) and member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association -BRASA (2010-14). PhD from the University of New York (1999), with a postdoctoral degree in Social Sciences from the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2007). She is also a master in Sociology (1991) and Anthropology (1987), both from New York University, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1982, with academic distinction). Professor Vânia is a lecturer in North America, South America and Europe and is the author of several articles, in English and Portuguese, on race relations in Brazil and the United States, comparative affirmative actions, family and masculinities. During her visit to Brazil in 2013, Vânia Penha-Lopes launched the book Pioneiros: Cotistas na Universidade Brasileira.