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Juliana G贸es

Assistant Professor

Sociology
LT 403

Background

Juliana G贸es is an Afro-Brazilian researcher committed to liberation and the construction of a new world. 

Currently, she is working on two book projects. The first, titled Decolonizing Cities: Black Movements and Territories of Life in Brazil, examines the intersections between Black movements in Latin America, self-determination and urban politics. The second book, Du Bois on Latin America and the Caribbean: Trans-American Pan-Africanism and Global Sociology, co-authored with Agustin Lao-Montes and Jorge Vasquez, delves into Black internationalism across the Americas. 

In addition, G贸es' research interests encompass Black feminism and womanism, abolitionism and decolonial praxis. Her commitment to these areas is reflected in her extensive collaboration with grassroots movements and her ongoing efforts to integrate academic scholarship with activist practice. She has ongoing collaborations with Black organizations, sex workers' groups, urban settlements and anti-prison movements.

Select Publications

  • G脫ES, Juliana. "Western Modernity, Cities, and Race: Challenges to Decolonial Praxis in the African Diaspora in the Americas. " , v. 16, n. 10, e13033. 2022. 
  • G脫ES, Juliana. "Reflections on Colorism and Pigmentocracy." , v. 5, n. 4, 14741鈥01i (in Portuguese, with English abstract). 2022. 
  • G脫ES, Juliana. "Du Bois and Brazil: Reflections on Black Transnationalism and African Diaspora." , pp. 1-16. 2021. 
  • G脫ES, Juliana and LAO-MONTES, Agustin. 鈥淣uestra Am茅frica en Clave dos Feminismos Pretos: El Imaginario Geo-Historico de L茅lia Gonzalez.鈥 [Our Am茅frica is Key to Black Feminisms: The Geo-Historical Imaginary of L茅lia Gonzalez]. , v. 50, n. 3, pp. 50-54 (in Portuguese and Spanish), 2019. 
  • G脫ES, Juliana. "Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Prostitution." , v. 31, n. 1. pp. 119-146 (in Portuguese, with English abstract). 2018. 

Education

  • PhD, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; certificate in African Diaspora Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies; certificate in Latin American Studies: Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, 2023.
  • MA, Sociology: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2022.
  • MA, Political Science: Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), 2017.
  • BA, Political Science: University of Bras铆lia (Brazil), 2015

Research Interests

  • Race and racism
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Social movements
  • Decolonial theory
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Global sociology
  • Urban sociology

Awards

  • Manuel Matos Public Sociology Award, Department of Sociology, UMass Amherst, 2022.
  • The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council, 2021.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae