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Biography
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Cecilia M. Santos
Associate Professor: Sociology | Latin American Studies and Department Chair: Sociology
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Cecilia MacDowell Santos received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Bacharel em Direito degree (Brazilian equivalent of J.D.) from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife Law School, in Brazil and a Master in Law from the University of Sao Paulo. She teaches courses in the areas of globalization, law, and gender especially focusing on developing countries. Her teaching also includes courses on Brazilian culture and Latin America. In particular, she has created and taught Globalization and Resistance, Global Inequalities and Social Justice, Sociology of Law, Women in Developing Countries, and Brazilian Culture and Society. She has also taught Sociology of Gender.
Her research interests include globalization, law, women's movements and the state, gender, and human rights in Latin America, particularly Brazil. She is the author of Women's Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and human rights reports published in the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, Portugal, and Israel. A revised and expanded Portuguese-language version of Women’s Police Stations will be published in Sao Paulo under the title Delegacias da Mulher: Genero, Violencia e Justica em Sao Paulo, Brasil (Hucitec Press, forthcoming). Her current research project focuses on transnational human rights legal mobilization, addressing in particular cases against Brazil brought by human rights NGOs to the Organization of American States. Drawing on research for this project, she is co-editing two volumes of the book titled Desarquivando a Ditadura: Memoria e Justica no Brasil [De-classifying the Brazilian Dictatorship: Memory and Justice in Brazil] (Hucitec Press, forthcoming). She is also coordinating a research project on the European Tribunal of Human Rights and Portugal, housed at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. Building on her previous work on women's police stations, she is currently part of the research team in a comparative research project on women's police stations in selected countries in Latin America, including Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Nicaragua.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5624
Fax: (415) 422-5671
Email: santos@usfca.edu
Office: Kalmanovitz Hall, 219
Office Hours: Will resume in Fall 2009.
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