Research

• South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR)
  School of Medicine
  The SAPHIR program is an 11-month training program in HIV prevention research in Latin America for pre- and post-doctoral physician researchers from the U.S. Each trainee will focus in on a specific area of research while receiving a broad educational overview of all aspects of HIV prevention.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jesse Clark
  (Updated: Jan 30 2023)

• COVID-19 Tactics Varied by Gender Among Brazilian Mayors Running for Reelection
  John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management
  The November 2020 mayoral elections across Brazil gave the Inter-American Development Bank’s Juan Pablo Chauvin and UCLA Anderson’s Clemence Tricaud a ripe petri dish to explore the extent to which gender bias among voters may play into policy decisions among mayors up for reelection.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Clemence Tricaud
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• The Archives of Ibicaba Farm
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of Ibicaba Farm’s archives from its second administration, when an immigrant family became the farm’s proprietor. The farm played an outstanding role in Brazilian history. It was there that the first experiments with European bonded labor were conducted.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Brazilian Court Records Under Authoritarian Regimes
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of the archive of the Court of Justice located in the city of Óbidos, in the Lower Amazon region. The collection covers the end of the so-called “Old Republic” (1900-1930) as well as several authoritarian regimes that followed.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Digitization of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu's Archive
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of selected collections from the Archive of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu, a center of Brazil’s progressive Catholic Church during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). The collection is comprised of 475 linear feet (145 linear meters) of printed materials.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Memory of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers Movement
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation and digitization of a large collection of documents, photographs, publications, recordings and institutional records from Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 24 2023)

• Memory and Identity of Afro-Brazilian Archives
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the creation of archives containing documents of Afro-Brazilian activism and enable access to neglected aspects of Afro-Brazilian memory. The material encompasses three periods of Brazilian history: the onset of the military dictatorship, democratization and the deepening of Brazilian democracy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 24 2023)

• Historical Memory of Brazil’s National Federation of Domestic Workers
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the organization and evaluation of the archive of Brazil’s national domestic workers’ union federation, including materials documenting activities at the vanguard of Brazilian labor organizing. The archive will empower contemporary activists and shift historical narratives that have privileged certain voices over others.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Afro-Indigenous Brazilian Struggles for Recognition
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of an archive was created by independent artists from Rio de Janeiro, recording video from the early 1980s, as activists of human-rights movements, especially Afro, Feminist and Indigenous Movements. The resulting videotape archive spans two decades of socio-political history.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Scores of Frevo from Captain Zuzinha's Band
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of 8,700 original manuscripts of Frevo scores -- a popular music form played by the Military Police during Carnival in Pernambuco. Frevo was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and as Intangible Cultural Heritage by IPHAN.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Digitizing and Georeferencing the Archives of the Niterói Herbarium: Mapping Socio-Environmental Change
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of materials from the Niterói Herbarium (NIT), a botanical collection that offers a glimpse into Brazil’s socio-environmental history. These materials are used for research and teaching on environmental conservation and ethno-botanical knowledge in Brazil’s most urbanized region.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Monoculture versus conservation: The dispersion of plant species to Brazil in the 20th century and the role of US institutions
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This project is led by UCLA Department of Geography Visiting Researcher Dr. Moretto.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Samira Moretto
  (Updated: Jan 10 2024)

• Soweto Black Organization
  UCLA Library
  This UCLA Library Digital Collection contains over 100 posters, fliers, and manuscripts from both Africa and South America.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lisa McAulay
  (Updated: Jan 12 2024)

• Biological and Cultural Evolution in Neotropical Primates
  College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences
  This project explores the biological and cultural evolution in neotropical primates, providing valuable contributions to primate biogeography. The principal investigators have discussed their findings at a workshop in Brazil. This project is currently pursuing research on analyzing facial pattern diversity in Old World monkeys, apes, lemurs and lorises.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jessica Lynch
  (Updated: Jan 26 2024)

• Favelas.br in Maré
  UCLA Library

  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the creation of an inventory at the Museu do Maré, a community museum located in one of the most populous favela complexes in Brazil.  The Museum holds collections documenting life and social struggle in a historically working-class, Afro-Brazilian region of the city.

  
  

  Project website

  (Updated: Mar 03 2025)

Service

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Ananya Roy

John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management

• COVID-19 Tactics Varied by Gender Among Brazilian Mayors Running for Reelection
  Research
  The November 2020 mayoral elections across Brazil gave the Inter-American Development Bank’s Juan Pablo Chauvin and UCLA Anderson’s Clemence Tricaud a ripe petri dish to explore the extent to which gender bias among voters may play into policy decisions among mayors up for reelection.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Clemence Tricaud
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

School of Medicine

• South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR)
  Research|
  The SAPHIR program is an 11-month training program in HIV prevention research in Latin America for pre- and post-doctoral physician researchers from the U.S. Each trainee will focus in on a specific area of research while receiving a broad educational overview of all aspects of HIV prevention.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jesse Clark
  (Updated: Jan 30 2023)

Luskin School of Public Affairs

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Research, Service
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences

• Biological and Cultural Evolution in Neotropical Primates
  Research
  This project explores the biological and cultural evolution in neotropical primates, providing valuable contributions to primate biogeography. The principal investigators have discussed their findings at a workshop in Brazil. This project is currently pursuing research on analyzing facial pattern diversity in Old World monkeys, apes, lemurs and lorises.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jessica Lynch
  (Updated: Jan 26 2024)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• Monoculture versus conservation: The dispersion of plant species to Brazil in the 20th century and the role of US institutions
  Research
  This project is led by UCLA Department of Geography Visiting Researcher Dr. Moretto.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Samira Moretto
  (Updated: Jan 10 2024)

UCLA International Education Office

• Brazilian Seminars
  EducationAbroadProgram
  This Brazilian seminar is an interdisciplinary program offering a broad perspective on Brazilian issues from media and democracy to the Brazilian oil industry to race relations and Brazilian culture.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Danilo Bonilla
  (Updated: May 09 2023)

• Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Near the city's southern foothills and beaches, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro offers students culturally relevant educational offerings in Latin American art, culture, and history, gender and race issues, Brazilian politics and culture, and Portuguese language studies.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Danilo Bonilla
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

UCLA Library

• The Archives of Ibicaba Farm
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of Ibicaba Farm’s archives from its second administration, when an immigrant family became the farm’s proprietor. The farm played an outstanding role in Brazilian history. It was there that the first experiments with European bonded labor were conducted.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Brazilian Court Records Under Authoritarian Regimes
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of the archive of the Court of Justice located in the city of Óbidos, in the Lower Amazon region. The collection covers the end of the so-called “Old Republic” (1900-1930) as well as several authoritarian regimes that followed.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Digitization of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu's Archive
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of selected collections from the Archive of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu, a center of Brazil’s progressive Catholic Church during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). The collection is comprised of 475 linear feet (145 linear meters) of printed materials.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Memory of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers Movement
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation and digitization of a large collection of documents, photographs, publications, recordings and institutional records from Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 24 2023)

• Memory and Identity of Afro-Brazilian Archives
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the creation of archives containing documents of Afro-Brazilian activism and enable access to neglected aspects of Afro-Brazilian memory. The material encompasses three periods of Brazilian history: the onset of the military dictatorship, democratization and the deepening of Brazilian democracy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 24 2023)

• Historical Memory of Brazil’s National Federation of Domestic Workers
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the organization and evaluation of the archive of Brazil’s national domestic workers’ union federation, including materials documenting activities at the vanguard of Brazilian labor organizing. The archive will empower contemporary activists and shift historical narratives that have privileged certain voices over others.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Afro-Indigenous Brazilian Struggles for Recognition
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of an archive was created by independent artists from Rio de Janeiro, recording video from the early 1980s, as activists of human-rights movements, especially Afro, Feminist and Indigenous Movements. The resulting videotape archive spans two decades of socio-political history.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Scores of Frevo from Captain Zuzinha's Band
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of 8,700 original manuscripts of Frevo scores -- a popular music form played by the Military Police during Carnival in Pernambuco. Frevo was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and as Intangible Cultural Heritage by IPHAN.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 26 2023)

• Digitizing and Georeferencing the Archives of the Niterói Herbarium: Mapping Socio-Environmental Change
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of materials from the Niterói Herbarium (NIT), a botanical collection that offers a glimpse into Brazil’s socio-environmental history. These materials are used for research and teaching on environmental conservation and ethno-botanical knowledge in Brazil’s most urbanized region.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Soweto Black Organization
  Research|
  This UCLA Library Digital Collection contains over 100 posters, fliers, and manuscripts from both Africa and South America.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Lisa McAulay
  (Updated: Jan 12 2024)

• Favelas.br in Maré
  Research|

  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the creation of an inventory at the Museu do Maré, a community museum located in one of the most populous favela complexes in Brazil.  The Museum holds collections documenting life and social struggle in a historically working-class, Afro-Brazilian region of the city.

  
  

  Project website

  (Updated: Mar 03 2025)