Thais Machado Borges PhD, Associate Professor
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Name and title: Thais Machado BorgesPhD, Associate Professor
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 B, plan 5
Postal address Romanska och klassiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Associate Professor in Latin American Studies, Ph.D. (Social Anthropology)
Director of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies.
I teach and research at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
I teach courses in Latin American Studies at all levels, I also supervise degree projects, master dissertations, and Ph.D. theses on topics related to my research areas.
PhD in Social Anthropology, Associate professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University.
I have done extensive field research in urban Brazil with a focus on the following topics: telenovelas and popular culture; consumption of media products; socio-cultural and physical aspects of the crafting of bodies; consumption practices and notions of citizenship; social inequality; socio-cultural perspectives on the production, management, and recycling of waste; and everyday practices of social classification in unequal urban contexts.
For further information on my research, publications, and teaching, please take a look at the links and files on this page.