Tulane Brazilian Jazz Ensemble

This ensemble, comprised of Tulane students, focuses on the intersections of Brazilian music with jazz. Bossa nova, samba jazz, baião, choro, ijexá, and many other traditional Brazilian rhythms integrate the repertoire. The ensemble performs music from Tom Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal, João Bosco, João Donato, Gilberto Gil, and Pixinguinha. Geovane Santos, LAST PhD Candidate, is the director of the Tulane Brazilian Jazz Ensemble.

Music at Midday – Geovane Santos: Ballet and Beyond

Geovane Santos, an Afro-Brazilian guitarist, vocalist, composer, and educator from Belo Horizonte, brings his rich cultural heritage to New Orleans' vibrant music scene. Recognized as the city's "best Brazilian jazz guitarist" by OffBeat Magazine, he is the founder of New Orleans Brasil Day and a dedicated scholar exploring race, transculturation, and cultural appropriation in music. 

Book Presentation & Conversation: "El dios del silencio"

El dios del silencio (2023) is a short story collection written by Fernando Rivera. Since he won the Peruvian National Award for Short Stories El cuento de las mil palabras in 1992, he has published the short story collection Barcos de arena (1994) and the novels Invencible como tu figura (2004) and Ustedes que jamás vieron mi Muerte (2016). His short stories have been published in anthologies in Peru and Spain.  

This event will take place in Spanish 

 

 

Germán Feierherd

Germán Feierherd

Mid-Career Fellow- CIPR

Stone Center Departments
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows

Research

Electoral Cycles, Income Inequality, Political Parties

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Yale University, Political Science, 2016
  • M.Phil., Yale University, Political Science, 2013
  • B.A., Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Political Science and Government, 2006

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, 2022-
  • Director, Master in Public Policy Program, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, 2022-
  • Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, 2018-2022
  • Visiting Professor, New York University- Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020-

Distinctions

  • Democratic Anxieties in the Americas Research Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2021 (with G. Tuñon)
  • Research Award (quinquennial), Universidad de San Andrés, 2021

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Argentina

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons from Paraguay (with R. Duarte, J. Mangonet, and M. V. Murillo), at Comparative Political Studies
  • 2023. Witch Hunts? Electoral Cycles and the Judicialization of Corruption in Argentina (with E. Gonzalez-Ocantos and G. Tunon), in British Journal of Political Science.
  • 2023. The Pink Tide and Income Inequality in Latin America (with P. Larroulet, W. Long, and N. Lustig) in Latin American Politics & Society, 65(2).
  • 2023. When the Partisan Becomes Personal: Mayoral Incumbency Effects in Buenos Aires (with A. Lucardi), in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 33(4).
  • 2022. Does the Monetary Cost of Abstaining Increase Turnout? Causal Evidence from Peru (with Guadalupe Tuñon and G. Julcarima-Alvarez), in Electoral Studies, Vol. 75.
  • 2022. Courting Informal Workers: Exclusion, Forbearance, and the Left, in American Journal of Political Science, 66(2).
  • 2020. How Mayors Hurt Their Presidential Ticket: Party Brands and Incumbency Spillovers in Brazil, in The Journal of Politics, 82(1).
  • 2020. Do the Wealthy Oppose Redistribution? Public Price Shocks and Redistributive Preferences in Buenos Aires (with L. Schiumerini and S. Stokes), in British Journal of Political Science, 50(2).

Paula Clerici

Paula Clerici

Mid-Career Fellow- Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Stone Center Departments
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Research Design and Methods in Social Sciences, Comparative Politics, Political Coalitions

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina, Political Science, 2015.
  • M.A., University of Warwick, United Kingdon, Social Research, 2008.
  • B.A., Universidad de Buenos Aires, Political Science, 2005.

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Mid-Career Research Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University, 2025
  • Researcher, CONICET, 2021-
  • Research Fellow, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg, Germany, 2018
  • Fulbright Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Computational Social Science (iLCSS), University of Maryland, 2017-2018

Distinctions

  • Visiting Scholar, Universidade de Brasilia, CAPES Foundation, 2022.
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, 2020.

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • English

Overseas Experience

  • Argentina
  • Mexico
  • Panama
  • Costa Rica
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Brazil

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Clerici, Paula, Jennifer Cyr, Julieta Suárez-Cao and Matías Bianchi. “Citizen Support for Collaboratively-Produced Policy in Latin America.”
  • 2024. Bonvecchi, Alejandro and Paula Clerici. “Playing in the forest while the wolf is not around: vote switching and agenda power in federal multiparty systems.”
  • 2024. Bonvecchi, Alejandro and Paula Clerici. “Representation and Delegation in Trade Policymaking: The Political Economy of Trade Taxes in Argentina.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Early View.
  • 2024. Clerici, Paula, Lucía Demeco, Franco Galeano, and Juan Negri. “Mudding the playing field. Fiscal contributions to municipalities as a political construction.” Governance 37(3): 1035-1056.
  • 2024. Albala, Adrián, Paula Clerici, and Alejandro Olivares. “Determinants of the cabinet size in presidential systems.” Governance 37(3): 771-784.
  • 2024. Camerlo, Marcelo, Paula Clerici and Anabella Molina. 2024. “Poderes partidarios y reclutamiento ministerial. El caso argentino.” Colombia Internacional 120: 23-50.
  • 2023. Clerici, Paula. “Committee collaboration, competing principals, and partisanship in Argentina.” The Journal of Leg islative Studies, 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2194108. Early View.
  • 2023. Calvo, Ernesto and Paula Clerici. “Después de la #ConsolidaciónDemocrática: Redes sociales, polarización y fake news.” Desarrollo Económico 63(240): 195-202.
  • 2022. Bonvecchi, Alejandro and Paula Clerici. “Vote switching in multiparty presidential systems: evidence from the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 42(1): 1-23.
  • 2022. Alemán, Eduardo and Paula Clerici. “Centralidad y productividad legislativa en la Cámara de Diputados de Ar gentina, 1983-2019.” Revista de Ciencia Política (Santiago) 42(1): 31-53.
  • 2021. Clerici, Paula. “Legislative territorialization. The impact of a decentralized party system on individual legislative behavior in Argentina.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51(1): 104-130.
  • 2021. Calvo, Ernesto, Paula Clerici, and Sebastián Vallejo. “Ciencia y política en tiempos del covid-19.” Política y Gobierno 28(2): 1-22

Brian Sidlauskas

Brian Sidlauskas

Professor- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Curator- Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
School of Science & Engineering
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 6

Research

Neotropical fish, evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2006
  • M.S., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2003
  • A.B., Cornell University, Biological Sciences, 1998

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Curator of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Professor, Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2022-2024.
  • Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2015-2022.
  • Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2009-2015.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Duke University, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006-2009.

Distinctions

  • Fisheries Team of the Year, Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2024.
  • Fulbright Scholar, State University of Londrina, Brazil, 2020, 2024.
  • Meritorious Teaching Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and American Elasmobranch Society, 2020.

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Guyana
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
  • Gabon

Selected Publications

  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Bruno F. Melo, José L. O. Birindelli, et al. Molecular phylogenetics, a new classification, and a new genus of the Neotropical fish family Anostomidae (Teleostei: Characiformes). Neotropical Ichthyology.
  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Tobit. L.D. Liyandja, Heleen Maetens*, Ray Schmidt and J. Churley Manfoumbi. In press. Building capacity for fish biology in Subsaharan Africa. Cybium.
  • 2024. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Samarth L. Mathur, Hakan Aydoğan*, Fred Monzyk and Andrew N. Black. Genetic approaches reveal a healthy population and an unexpectedly recent origin for an isolated desert spring fish. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 24 (1), 2.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. and Peter Konstantinidis. Fish Curation. In: Methods for Fish Biology, second edition. S. Midway and P. Chakrabarty, eds. American Fisheries Society: 739-774.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. †, Fernando M. Assega†, et al. Total evidence phylogenetic analysis reveals paraphyly of Anostomoides and uncovers an unexpectedly ancient genus of Anostomidae fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(2) 626-669.
  • 2021. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Michael D. Burns*, Thaddaeus J. Buser*, Nicholas Harper, and Mark Kindred. Teaching ichthyology online with a virtual specimen collection. Ichthyology and Herpetology, 109(2): 407-423.
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