Jeffrey Lesser
Jeffrey Lesser is a U.S.-based historian of Latin America who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. Prior to that he was the Winship Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. After two terms as the chair of the History Department at Emory University he was named the first faculty director of the Halle Institute for Global Research [1]. He is the author of numerous books on ethnicity, immigration and national identity in Brazil.[1] In 2022 Lesser won Emory University‘s Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor Award [2] and in 2023 he received the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization [3].
Lesser studied at
He is the author of a number of monographs in English and Portuguese including,Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, and A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy.[4] In 2013 Lesser released Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present, which was revised and published in Brazil as A invenção da brasilidade: Identidade nacional, etnicidade e políticas de imigração.
References
- ^ a b "Jeffrey Lesser". History Department. Emory University. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
- ^ "CLAH » Elected Officers".
- ^ "Jeffrey Lesser, novo professor visitante, estudará hábitos culturais e saúde na cidade de São Paulo — IEA". www.iea.usp.br. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 13(2) 465–467
External links
- Jeffrey Lesser's profile page at Emory University
- Lesser Research Collective home page