Lilia Moritz Schwarcz | |
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| Born | Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Universidade de São Paulo |
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist.[1][2] She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at Princeton University.[3][4]
Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the Brazilian Empire, social identity, slavery and race relations between White and Afro-Brazilian peoples.[5]
Schwarcz is Jewish.[6] In 1986, she co-founded the Companhia das Letras publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz.[7] She is a curator for the São Paulo Museum of Art,[8] and writes a column at the news website Nexo Jornal.[9]
In 2024, Lilia was elected to occupy seat number 9 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL).[10]
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- ^ Darnton, Robert (2010-08-17). "Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- ^ "Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ "Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series: Lima Barreto – A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century". drclas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ Carneiro, Júlia Dias (2018-05-10). "Brasil viveu um processo de amnésia nacional sobre a escravidão, diz historiadora". BBC News Brasil. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ "Lilia Schwarcz" (PDF). fgv.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ "Dama de palavra: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz celebra 30 anos da Companhia das Letras". vogue.globo.com. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "The many histories of sexuality are told in group show at MASP - PIPA Prize". PIPA Prize. 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ "Lilia Schwarcz". Nexo Jornal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ "Lilia Moritz Schwarcz é eleita imortal pela Academia Brasileira de Letras - Revista O Grito! — Jornalismo cultural que fala de tudo" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-08.