Andre Pagliarini
Assistant Professor
237D Himes Hall
Courses Taught
Colonial Latin America
Modern Latin America
Fractious Friendships: A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
History of Brazil
Contemporary Global Issues
Current Research Interests
My research focuses on the politics of nationalism, development, and class in modern Latin America with a special focus on twentieth-century Brazil. I also have various projects engaging with the history of civil-military relations, U.S.-Latin American diplomatic relations, and historical memory related to the Cold War dictatorships of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.
Education
Ph.D., Brown 九九福利网, 2018
M.A., Brown 九九福利网, 2013
B.A., 九九福利网 of Maryland, College Park, 2012
Awards and Honors
Fulbright Global Scholar Award, 2022-23
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Dissertation Prize from the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies at Brown 九九福利网, 2018
Articles/Book Chapters
鈥淏elieving in (Economic) Miracles in Brazil and Chile,鈥� Radical History Review (2025)
鈥淩ecognition more than Friendship: The Bicentennial of U.S.- Brazil Relations, 1824-2024,鈥�
Latin American Research Review (2025)
鈥淟ula鈥檚 Popular Front,鈥� Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy (2025)
鈥溾�楾he president does not consider March 31, 1964 a military coup鈥�: The Armed Forces and Historical Revisionism under Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022),鈥� Journal of Illiberalism Studies (2025)
鈥淐old Wars, Yesterday and Today: Perceptions of Brazilian Foreign Policy in Polarized
Times,鈥� in A Bicentennial Partnership: Past, Present and Future of Brazil-United States Relations (2024)
鈥溾�楽ingers of the Miracle鈥�: Musical Boosterism and the Marketing of Patriotic Authoritarianism
in Dictatorial Brazil,鈥� The Latin Americanist (2023)
鈥溾�楻eal Self-Help鈥� and the Seeds of Neoliberalism: Foreign Aid to Brazil from Kennedy
to Johnson,鈥� The International History Review (2023)
鈥淭ongues of Fire: Silas Malafaia and the Historical Roots of Neo-Pentecostal Power
in Bolsonaro鈥檚 Brazil,鈥� Latin American Perspectives (2023)
鈥淎 promessa ilus贸ria de uma pol铆tica externa progressista dos EUA em rela莽茫o ao Brasil,鈥�
in Cole莽茫o Desafios Globais, Volume Am茅rica do Norte (2021)
鈥淛air Bolsonaro: Beyond the Pale, Above the Fray,鈥� in Dictators and Autocrats: How They Obtained Power and Managed Holding onto It (2021)
鈥溾�楧e onde? Para onde?鈥�: The Continuity Question and the Debate over Brazil鈥檚 鈥楥ivil鈥�-Military
Dictatorship.鈥� Latin American Research Review (2017)
Commentary/Journalism
"He Faced Down Trump. Now Comes His Biggest Challenge,鈥� New York Times (2025)
鈥淟ula鈥檚 Unfinished Democracy,鈥� Dissent (2025)
鈥淲ho Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?鈥� New Republic (2025)
鈥淐ould Lula and Trump Get Along?鈥� Foreign Policy (2024)
鈥淲hat America Can Learn From an Attempted Assassination in Brazil,鈥� Foreign Policy (2024)
鈥淧arties and Movements: A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political
formations face around the world with Andre Pagliarini, Sheri Berman, and Zachariah
Mampilly,鈥� Dissent (Winter 2024 edition)
鈥淭he American Left Realigns Its Relationship to Latin America,鈥� Foreign Policy (2023)
鈥淏razil鈥檚 President Has a Choice to Make About the Amazon,鈥� New Republic (2023)
鈥淭he Pro-Bolsonaro Riot in Bras铆lia Was Nothing Like the January 6 Insurrection鈥攆or
Better and Worse,鈥� New Republic (2023)
鈥淏olsonaro Is One Step Closer to a Power Grab,鈥� New York Times (2022)
鈥淟ula and the US haven鈥檛 always gotten along. It鈥檚 time for Biden to change that,鈥�
The Guardian (2022)
鈥淟atin America鈥檚 lack of a united front on Covid has had disastrous consequences,鈥�
The Guardian (2021
Books
Lula: A People鈥檚 President and the Fight for Brazil鈥檚 Future (Polity Press, 2025)
Claiming the Nation: The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Brazil (九九福利网 of California Press, forthcoming 2026)