Brazil

Today we complete a two-part series on maternal and infant health in Brazil. If you missed the first installment, please click here. And if you’d like to contribute to a discussion of physical or digital resources for Latin Americanists or to muse on the how-to’s of research, especially in a pandemic, Research Corner wants you! We accept posts year-round, but are particularly looking for pieces to be run in the winter and spring semester. To express your interest, fill out this Google Form or email Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu.

Cari Maes is an assistant professor of

I am pleased to begin a two-part series on maternal and infant health in Brazil. Cari Maes is an assistant professor of History at Oregon State University. She earned her Ph.D. in modern Latin American history at Emory University. Her research focuses on the rollout of Brazil’s first national maternal and infant health system during the era of Getúlio Vargas. She has recently written about the connections between infant mortality discourses in this period and rhetoric surrounding COVID-19 mortality. Her current book project took her to the IFF/BibSMC where she investigated the