Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

I am interested in the complex ideological and interpersonal threads that bind culture and politics in Northeast Brazil. A Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship provided 18 months of support for fieldwork in Recife, Pernambuco. My dissertation is an embodied analysis of the "politics of culture" in an important site of cultural and political ferment in the long 1970s and early 1980s.  From 2014 to 2016, I served as Graduate Student Coordinator of the <a href="http://fhi.duke.edu/labs/globa