Faculty Members
The faculty of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of Brasilia comprises 22 advising professors, 19 of whom are full-time and 3, adjunct. The list below shows the faculty members and their respective research interests.
Full-time:
ANDRÉA DE SOUZA LOBO
(Doctor, UnB, 2007 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Family Organization, Flows and Migrations, African Ethnology (Cape Verde), Economic Anthropology.



CARLA COSTA TEIXEIRA
(Doctor, UnB, 1997 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Political Anthropology, Indigenous Health Policies, Ethnography of Institutions.



CARLOS ALEXANDRE B. PLÍNIO DOS SANTOS
(Doctor, UnB, 2010 - Assistant Professor)
Research interests: Peasant, Kinship, Memory, Escravidão e pós-emancipação, Comunidades Negras Rurais e Urbanas - Quilombolas.



CARLOS EMANUEL SAUTCHUK
(Doctor, UnB, 2007 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Technique, Body, Anthropological Theory.



CHRISTINE DE ALENCAR CHAVES
(Doctor, UnB, 1999 - Assistant Professor)
Linhas de Pesquisa: Anthropological Theory, Political Anthropology, Peasant.



CRISTINA PATRIOTA DE MOURA
(Doctor, Museu Nacional/University of Rio de Janeiro, 2003 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Urban Anthropology, the State.



DANIEL SCHROETER SIMIÃO
(Doctor, UnB, 2005 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Law, Political Anthropology, Gender.



GUILHERME JOSÉ DA SILVA E SÁ
(Doctor, Museu Nacinoal/UFRJ, 2006 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Science and Technology, Nature-Culture relations, Human‒Non-human relations, History of Anthropology in Brazil.



GUSTAVO LINS RIBEIRO
(PhD, City University of New York, 1988 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Complex Societies, Development, South America, Globalization.



.JOSÉ ANTÔNIO VIEIRA PIMENTA
(Doctor, UnB, 2002 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Indigenous Ethnology, Interethnic Relations, Indigenism.



JOSÉ JORGE DE CARVALHO
(PhD, Queen's University of Belfast, 1984 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Afro-Brazilian Religions, Symbolic Systems, Ethnomusicology, Religion, Art, Anthropological Theory, Race Relations, Affirmative Action.



JULIANA BRAZ DIAS
(Doctor, UnB, 2004 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Africa, Popular Culture.



KELLY CRISTIANE DA SILVA
(Doctor, UnB, 2004 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Politics, Development, Colonialism, Southeast Asia.



LIA ZANOTTA MACHADO
(Doctor, USP, 1980 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Urban Anthropology, Conflicts and Violence, Gender and Family, Health, Social Policies and Rights, Modernity in Latin America.



LUIS ABRAHAM CAYÓN DURÁN
(Doctor, UnB, 2010 - Assistant Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Indigenous Ethnology.



LUÍS ROBERTO CARDOSO DE OLIVEIRA
(PhD, Harvard University, 1989 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Politics and Law, Anthropological Theory, Complex Societies, Identity and Citizenship (Brazil-Quebec -USA).



SORAYA RESENDE FLEISCHER
(Doctor, UFRGS, 2007 - Associate Professor)
Research interests: Health, Popular Therapies.



STEPHEN GRANT BAINES
(Doctor, UnB, 1988 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Indigenous Ethnology (sp. Carib Waimiri-Atroari), Interethnic Relations, Political Anthropology, Indigenous Ethnology (Brazil-Australia-Canada), Ethnic and National Frontier Identities (Makushi, Wapichana).



WILSON TRAJANO FILHO
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 - Full Professor)
Research interests: African Ethnology (Creole Societies: Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé), Popular Culture, Symbolic Systems, Anthropological Theory.



Adjunct:
MARCELA STOCKLER COELHO DE SOUZA
(Doctor, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, 2002 - Assistant Professor)
Research interests: Indigenous Ethnology, Anthropological Theory, Kinship and Sociality, Knowledge and Creativity Regimes (traditional knowledge, intellectual property, non-material heritage).



MARIZA GOMES E SOUZA PEIRANO
(PhD, Harvard University, 1981 - Full Professor)
Research interests: Anthropological Theory, Rituals, Politics.



ROQUE DE BARROS LARAIA
(Doctor, USP, 1972 - Professor Emeritus - UnB)
Research interests: Indigenous Ethnology, Social Organization and Kinship, Brazilian Culture.


