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
History of Brazil
Contemporary Global Issues
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
“Believing in (Economic) Miracles in Brazil and Chile,” Radical History Review (2025)
“Recognition more than Friendship: The Bicentennial of U.S.- Brazil Relations, 1824-2024,”
Latin American Research Review (2025)
“Lula’s Popular Front,” Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy (2025)
“‘The president does not consider March 31, 1964 a military coup’: The Armed Forces and Historical Revisionism under Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022),” Journal of Illiberalism Studies (2025)
“Cold Wars, Yesterday and Today: Perceptions of Brazilian Foreign Policy in Polarized
Times,” in A Bicentennial Partnership: Past, Present and Future of Brazil-United States Relations (2024)
“‘Singers of the Miracle’: Musical Boosterism and the Marketing of Patriotic Authoritarianism
in Dictatorial Brazil,” The Latin Americanist (2023)
“‘Real Self-Help’ and the Seeds of Neoliberalism: Foreign Aid to Brazil from Kennedy
to Johnson,” The International History Review (2023)
“Tongues of Fire: Silas Malafaia and the Historical Roots of Neo-Pentecostal Power
in Bolsonaro’s Brazil,” Latin American Perspectives (2023)
“A promessa ilusória de uma política externa progressista dos EUA em relação ao Brasil,”
in Coleção Desafios Globais, Volume América do Norte (2021)
“Jair Bolsonaro: Beyond the Pale, Above the Fray,” in Dictators and Autocrats: How They Obtained Power and Managed Holding onto It (2021)
“‘De onde? Para onde?’: The Continuity Question and the Debate over Brazil’s ‘Civil’-Military
Dictatorship.” Latin American Research Review (2017)
Commentary/Journalism
"He Faced Down Trump. Now Comes His Biggest Challenge,” New York Times (2025)
“Lula’s Unfinished Democracy,” Dissent (2025)
“Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity?” New Republic (2025)
“Could Lula and Trump Get Along?” Foreign Policy (2024)
“What America Can Learn From an Attempted Assassination in Brazil,” Foreign Policy (2024)
“Parties 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,” Dissent (Winter 2024 edition)
“The American Left Realigns Its Relationship to Latin America,” Foreign Policy (2023)
“Brazil’s President Has a Choice to Make About the Amazon,” New Republic (2023)
“The Pro-Bolsonaro Riot in Brasília Was Nothing Like the January 6 Insurrection—for
Better and Worse,” New Republic (2023)
“Bolsonaro Is One Step Closer to a Power Grab,” New York Times (2022)
“Lula and the US haven’t always gotten along. It’s time for Biden to change that,”
The Guardian (2022)
“Latin America’s lack of a united front on Covid has had disastrous consequences,”
The Guardian (2021
Books
Lula: A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s Future (Polity Press, 2025)
Claiming the Nation: The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, forthcoming 2026)