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Adjunct Lecturer Department of Anthropology Center for Latin American Studies Grinter Hall 309University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 Fax: 352-392-7682 E-mail: rrbrmia@ufl.edu
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Research Interests
Gender and Labor; Globalization and Neoliberalism; Poverty and Inequality; Race and Ethnicity; Tourism; Latino mobilization and Identity; Migration; Urbanization; Urban Anthropology
Geographic Expertise
Brazil, Latino communities in the U.S.
Courses
Peoples of Brazil
Intro to Latin America
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Race and Nation in Latin America
Peoples of Latin America
Background
Rosana Resende is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on the differentiated impacts of globalization and neoliberalism on the lived experiences of Latin Americans across social sectors. Specifically, her work addresses questions of migration, urbanization, labor, and tourism as encounters, contested sites of identity formation and continuously renegotiated social relations. She obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology and graduate certificate in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida in 2009. Her dissertation, “Tropical Brazucas: Brazilians in South Florida and the Imaginary of National Identity” focused on stereotyping as a critical component of immigrant communities, manifested most saliently on the imaginary surrounding the Brazilian woman. Resende received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar award and will be conducting field research in Brazil in 2014, studying the impact of the shrinking availability of domestic workers in Brazil on the middle class women who employed them. She is an adjunct lecturer in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology, as well as an affiliate of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.