Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Social Apps Lab
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Anthropology
Master of Architecture Program
M.Phil. Anthropology
M.A. Anthropology
B.A. Philosophy
EDUCATION
1986
1977-1979
1977
1976
1972
Yale University
Yale University
Yale University
New School for Social Research
Yale University
SELECTED AWARDS
2020 Social Science Division, UC Berkeley, Distinguished Teaching and Service Award
2017 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service 2016
2014 Co-Recipient of the Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action
2010 The 2010 Roberto Reis Book Prize, Brazilian Studies Association.
2009 The Leeds Honor Book, American Anthropological Association
2009 Best Book on Brazil in English, Latin American Studies Association
ACTIVE GRANTS
2020-23 “Cultural Citizenship in Housing Estates.” Ministry of Culture, Denmark
2020-22 “The Social and Spatial Lives of Public Housing Estates in Denmark.” The National Museum of Denmark and Realdania
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Citizenship, democracy, political theory; cities and urban studies; development of software platforms for democratic assembly; citizen entomology and arbovirus vector control; Brazil, United States, the Americas, Denmark; Social Apps Lab
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Cidadania Insurgente: Disjunções da Democracia e da Modernidade no Brasil. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2013
Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008
Cities and Citizenship, edited by James Holston. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999
A Cidade Modernista: Uma Crítica de Brasília e Sua Utopia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1993 (2nd edition 2010)
The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989
Research Articles
“DengueChat: a social and software platform for community-based arbovirus vector control” (with Harold Suazo-Laguna, Eva Harris, and Josefina Coloma) American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (In press, 2021)
“Metropolitan rebellions and the politics of commoning the city.” Anthropology Theory 19(1): 120-142 (2019)
“Art practice and citizenship at Park Lek, Sundbyberg.” In Public Enquiries, 99-110. Mick Wilson, Helena Selder, Somewhere and Giorgiana Zachia, editors. London: Black Dog Press, 2018.
“Filtering dissent: social media and land struggles in Brazil.” (with Rodrigo Ochigame) New Left Review 99: 85-108 (2016)
“Insurgent citizenship in an era of global urban peripheries.” Cities and Society 21(2): 253-277 (2009)
SELECTED APPLICATION SOFTWARE
See Social Apps Lab
denguechat.org; unifesp.appcivist.org; vallejopb.appcivist.org