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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Brazilian anthropologist and publisher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist.[1][2] She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at Princeton University.[3][4]
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Born | Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | Universidade de São Paulo |
Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the Brazilian Empire, social identity, slavery and race relations between White and Afro-Brazilian peoples.[5]
Schwarcz is Jewish.[6] In 1986, she co-founded the Companhia das Letras publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz.[7] She is a curator for the São Paulo Museum of Art,[8] and writes a column at the news website Nexo Jornal [pt].[9]
In 2024, Lilia was elected to occupy seat number 9 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL).[10]