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

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 University, 2018
M.A., Brown University, 2013
B.A., University 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 University, 2018

Articles/Book Chapters

鈥淏elieving in (Economic) Miracles in Brazil and Chile,鈥� Radical History Review (forthcoming 2025)

鈥淩ecognition more than Friendship: The Bicentennial of U.S.- Brazil Relations, 1824-2024,鈥� Latin American Research Review (forthcoming 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

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
Book Projects
Lula: A People鈥檚 President and the Fight for Brazil鈥檚 Future (under contract with Polity Press, forthcoming 2025)
Claiming the Nation: The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Brazil (under contract with University of California Press, forthcoming 2026)
Popular Politics in Modern Latin America: The Struggle Goes On (under contract with Routledge as part of its 鈥渟eminar studies鈥� series, forthcoming 2027)