Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Explained

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Birthname:Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
Birth Place:São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Nationality:Brazilian
Alma Mater:Universidade de São Paulo

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist.[1] [2] She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at Princeton University.[3] [4]

Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the Brazilian Empire, social identity, slavery and race relations between White and Afro-Brazilian peoples.[5]

Schwarcz is Jewish.[6] In 1986, she co-founded the Companhia das Letras publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz.[7] She is a curator for the São Paulo Museum of Art,[8] and writes a column at the news website .[9]

In 2024, Lilia was elected to occupy seat number 9 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL).[10]

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  1. News: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: 'Não é um acaso que Lima Barreto vem sendo retomado agora'. Biblioteca Vertical. 2017-10-05. pt-br.
  2. Web site: Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz. Darnton. Robert. 2010-08-17. The New York Review of Books. 2017-10-06.
  3. News: Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus. Princeton University. 2018-09-05. en.
  4. Web site: Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series: Lima Barreto – A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century. drclas.harvard.edu. en. 2017-10-05.
  5. News: Brasil viveu um processo de amnésia nacional sobre a escravidão, diz historiadora. Carneiro. Júlia Dias. 2018-05-10. BBC News Brasil. 2018-09-05. en-GB.
  6. Web site: Lilia Schwarcz. fgv.br. 23 August 2023. pt.
  7. News: Dama de palavra: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz celebra 30 anos da Companhia das Letras. vogue.globo.com. 2017-10-05.
  8. News: The many histories of sexuality are told in group show at MASP - PIPA Prize. 2017-10-20. PIPA Prize. 2018-09-05. en-US.
  9. News: Lilia Schwarcz. Nexo Jornal. 2018-09-05. pt-BR.
  10. Web site: 2024-03-07 . Lilia Moritz Schwarcz é eleita imortal pela Academia Brasileira de Letras - Revista O Grito! — Jornalismo cultural que fala de tudo . 2024-03-08 . pt-BR.
  11. Web site: The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Questions in Brazil, 1870-1930 (review). www.mixedracestudies.org. 2018-09-05.
  12. News: Review: Brazil: A Biography by Lilia M Schwarcz and Heloisa M Starling — colourful history of a gloriously dynamic nation. Sandbrook. Dominic. . 2018-07-22. 2018-09-03. en. 0140-0460.