Anthony W. Pereira

Executive Director and Thomas F. & Carol M. Reese Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies

Professor- Political Science
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Staff
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Administrator
Core Faculty

Research

Authoritarianism, Government, International Relations, Brazil

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, Government, 1991
  • M.A., Harvard University, Government, 1986
  • B.A., Sussex University, Politics & African and Asian Studies, 1982

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Executive Director, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, 2025-
  • Thomas F. & Carol M. Reese Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2025-
  • Professor, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 2025-
  • Director, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 2022-2025
  • Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, 2022-2025
  • Visiting Professor, School of Global Affairs, King’s College London, September 2022-
  • Professor, Brazil Institute, King’s College London, 2010-2020
  • Founding Director, Brazil Institute, King’s College London, 2010-2020
  • Visiting Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of Sao Paulo, April 2017- September 2019
  • Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 2008-2010
  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 1999-2006
  • Senior Lecturer, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, 2006-2008
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, 2005-2006
  • Neil A. Allen Visiting Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1998-1999
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, New School University, 1991-1998
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Government Department, Harvard University, 1995
  • Teaching Fellow, Government Department, Harvard University, 1986-1991

Distinctions

  • Member of the British Empire (MBE), for services to UK/Brazil relations, 2018
  • Order of Rio Branco, Brazilian Foreign Ministry, 2017
  • Friend of the Brazilian Navy, 2016
  • Latin Americanist Graduate Organization Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award, Stone Center, Tulane University, 2005
  • Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 1991

Languages

  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • United Kingdom

Selected Publications

  • Modern Brazil: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). [Oxford University Press has commissioned a second edition of this book. A bilingual (Mandarin-English) edition of the book will be published by Yilin Press in China.]
  • (with Jeffrey Garmany) Understanding Contemporary Brazil (London: Routledge, 2018). [A second edition of this book has been completed and will be published in 2025.]
  • Ditadura e Repressão [Dictatorship and Repression] (São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2010). This is a Portuguese translation of the book below, with a new introduction and preface by Paulo Sergio Pinheiro.
  • Right-Wing Populism Within and Beyond Latin America (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
  • Lauro Mattei and Anthony Pereira, eds. The Brazilian Economy Today: Towards a New Socio-Economic Model? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
  • “Samuel Huntington, Brazilian `Decompression’, and Democracy” in Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 53, Number 2, May 2021, pp. 349-371.
  • “Paper cemeteries: informal barriers to public security reform in Brazil” in Revista Brasileira de Ciências Políciais [Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences] Volume 10, Number 1, January-June 2019, pp. 55-98.
  • “The US Role in the 1964 Coup in Brazil: A Reassessment” in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2018, pp. 5-17.
  • “Nothing Succeeds Like Failure? Honduras and the Defense of Democracy in Brazilian Foreign Policy” in Rising Powers Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2017, pp. 83-103. This is part of a special issue on Brazil.
  • (with Louse Tillin) “Federalism, Multilevel Elections and Social Policy in Brazil and India”, in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Volume 55, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 328-352.
  • “Is the Brazilian State Patrimonial?” in Latin American Perspectives, Volume 43, Number 2, March 2016, pp. 135-152.
  • “Bolsa Família and Democracy in Brazil” in Third World Quarterly, Volume 36, Number 9, September 2015, pp. 1682-1699.
  • (with Renato Sérgio de Lima) “Crime, Violence and Public Security” in Richard Bourne, ed. Brazil After Bolsonaro: The Comeback of Lula da Silva (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. 103-116.
  • “The Police Ombudsman in Brazil as a Potential Mechanism to Reduce Violence” in Pablo Policzer, ed. The Politics of Violence in Latin America (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019), pp. 143-170.
  • (with Juliana T. de S. Martins) “The Politics of Human Rights” in Barry Ames, ed. Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics (New York: Routledge 2019), pp. 503-518.
  • “Le rôle des États-Unis dans le coup d'État 1964 au Brésil: une réévaluation” in James Green and Monica Schpun, eds. Le Dictature Brasilienne et son Legs (Paris: Le Poisson Volant, 2018).
  • “Brazil’s Truth Commission: Progress or Perdition?” in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds. Democratic Brazil Divided (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017), pp. 152-171.