COLUMBIA BRAZIL HISTORY nº 1 Fonte: Reprodução/Arquivo Museu Nacional 1 Claude Levi-Strauss; 2 Ruth Landes, da Universidade de Columbia; 3 Charles Walter Wagley, da Universidade de Columbia; 4 Heloísa Alberto Torres, do Museu Nacional; 5 Luís de Castro Faria, do Museu Nacional; 6 Raimundo Lopes da Cunha, do Museu Nacional; 7 Edison Carneiro. Chief-Editor Thomas J Trebat Editor Laura Nora Authors (Columbia University Students) Gabriel Franco Julia Shimizu Cecelia Morrow Robyn Maryah Stewart Xie Wanyi Karolina Laura Nixon Faculty Board of Advisors Amy Chazkel Ana Paulina Lee Nara Milanich Socrates Silva Reyes Jocelyn K. Wilk Joanna M. Rios Barbara Weinstein Betty Wagley Kottak Conrad Kottak Elio Gaspari James Green Herbert Klein Judith R. Shapiro Maxine Margolis Roberta Delson 2 DEDICATION To Professor Albert Fishlow and, in memoriam, to Professor Alfred Stepan: the “two Als” whose dedication to the study of Brazil and to Columbia University inspired this volume. 3 INDEX Pág. 7 PREFACE Pág. 9 INTRODUCTION ROBYN STEWART {1 Pág. 11 The Significance of Havemeyer Hall: How Sugar Links an Elite Family, Columbia University, and Slavery in Brazil CECELIA MORROW {2 Pág. 21 Columbia Anthropology in Brazil: Academic Cooperation and the Development of a Discipline WANYI XIE {3 Pág. 30 International Education Reform: Rediscovering the Ties between Teachers College and Brazil 4 JULIA SHIMIZU {4 Pág. 39 Women, Columbia University and Brazil KAROLINA NIXON {5 Pág. 49 Democracy in Brazil: Contributions from Columbia Brazilianists Former SIPA Dean Alfred Stepan The Campaign for Columbia SIPA (/whatcanbe) SIPA Magazine (/news/sipa-news-magazine) The School of International and Public Affairs' print publication features articles by faculty, students, GABRIEL AZEVEDO and alumni, as well as current news about SIPA's programs, events, and alumni. 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Outsider Vision Amid the Darkness: Visit Website (https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu) Brazilianists at Columbia University and the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1980 Pág. 67 EPILOGUE A CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT DATES IN THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL AND Pág. 74 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 5 6 PREFACE To our readers, he studies contained University, with the largest cohorts in this modest attending the Graduate School volume represent of Business, the Law School, the a first attempt to School of Professional Studies, the recover and make School of Engineering and Applied available important Sciences, the School of International Tdimensions about the lengthy and Public Affairs and Columbia relationship between Columbia College, the main undergraduate University in the City of New York school. In the years since the and Brazil. As with most historical launch of the Global Center in Brazil efforts, our intention in looking at in 2013, the number of Brazilians the past history is motivated by a enrolled in formal degree programs desire to learn its lessons for the has roughly doubled to 200 per year, present and the future. with some year-to-year variation1. It has been the case that Columbia During the course of 2019-2020, and Brazil are closely intertwined the Rio Center has been involved in today for a variety of human and more than 70 academic programs institutional linkages. The clear ties and events that happened with between the University and Brazil direct participation of Columbia are manifest today not only on faculty from various schools. Columbia’s Morningside campus These programs brought together in New York, but also through the researchers, specialists, public growing influence of the Columbia servants and civil society to discuss Global Center office in Rio de a wide range of themes and to Janeiro. exchange their knowledge and experience. Since 2013, the Columbia Global Center in Rio de Janeiro has Moreover, the Brazilian presence been reporting a large census of on campus is evident not only Brazilians in residence at Columbia because of the large number of University in New York. In terms of students, but also academics, total student enrollment (2018-19 visiting scholars, speakers and data for graduate and undergraduate research centers dedicated to the students), Brazil ranks seventh in study of Brazil is impressive. terms of total sending countries, with enrollments comparable to those of France and the U.K. The Institute of Latin American and ahead of Germany. Brazilian 1 For detailed data, see the Columbia Global students can be found in practically Centers| Rio de Janeiro’s Annual Report: https:// every school and the program of the globalcenters.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/ content/AR2020-25.pdf 7 Studies (ILAS) as a center for Landes, Anísio Teixeira, and Gilberto Barbara Weinstein, Betty Wagley research, teaching, and discussion Freyre. Other names are those of Kottak, Conrad Kottak, Elio Gaspari, on Latin America has played a illustrious Columbia scholars who James Green, Herbert Klein, Judith big role in bringing together and continue to make their contributions R. Shapiro, Maxine Margolis and providing resources for Columbia to the Columbia community. Roberta Delson. faculty, students, and visiting Professors Albert Fishlow and scholars interested in the region John Coastworth, for example, can Finally, we thank the six Columbia since its foundation in 1962. still be found on campus sharing students Gabriel Franco, Julia Another crucial institution for their knowledge and intellectual Shimizu, Cecelia Morrow, Robyn the promotion of collaborations capital with students and inspiring Maryah Stewart, Karolina Nixon and between the Columbia community their faculty colleagues to bear in Wanyi Xie for their hard work and and Brazilian scholars and mind Brazil’s global importance. professionalism. The group was institutions is the Lemann Center Professor Alfred C. Stepan, who formed out of a Columbia Global for Brazilian Studies (LCBS). passed away prematurely in 2017, Center initiative to create “virtual Established in 2001, the Center was would certainly be on any short internships” during the pandemic created to offer a place for scholars list of Columbia’s most acclaimed summer of 2020. The students, all and students to pursue and share Brazilianists. We are grateful to all volunteers, and editors met online research and scholarship on Brazil. of these individuals, and so many two times each week for three Besides rich public programming others, who made this partnership months to discuss the development on campus, the LCBS manages between Brazil and the University of the project and learn from each programs for visiting scholars and viable through lifetime scholarly other. supports students with travel grant contributions. opportunities and fellowships. Finally, it bears mention that this The two co-editors of this study, as publication was assembled during As the global relevance of Brazil well as the student authors of each strange and frightening times for grows and more students, faculty, of the main chapters, would also like Columbia, Brazil, and the world academics and projects can be to recognize the invaluable support as the ravages of the Covid-19 expected to come together to of a faculty board of advisors. The pandemic destroyed our daily strengthen the bridge between Brazil Board was formed by outstanding routines and took so many lives. and one of the most well known faculty from Columbia, academics At the same time, it was for us an educational institutions in the world. from other institutions with great opportunity to see how Columbians Mindful of the present and future, knowledge about historical research, of the past dealt with the strange and we decided to look back into the and others who generously shared frightening times that occasionally past history of the relationships. We impressions of their experiences darkened their lives. The six wanted at the outset to investigate as students and researchers. We chapters at the heart of this study the roles of people, of ideas, and thank Columbia professors Amy are, collectively, studies in scholarly of institutions that literally are the Chazkel, Ana Paulina Lee, and entrepreneurship and courage in foundation stones for Columbia’s Nara Milanich for sharing some of the face of adversity. We are proud intense interaction with Brazil today. their vast knowledge on research to make this volume available to a methodology and Brazilian history. broader audience in the hope that While we have recorded the We appreciated the team of many will find in it inspiration to importance of many different Columbia librarians Socrates Silva continue filling in the details of the actors, a few names stood out Reyes, Jocelyn K. Wilk and Joanna intertwined history of Columbia and throughout our research as key M Rios who guided us through Brazil. personalities whose talents this entire process, helping our shaped this history. Some of these group to navigate the University’s individuals are academics who are digital archives online. We also Thomas J Trebat already recognized by history and recognize and thank the renowned Laura Nora the literature for their intellectual experts who donated their time Rio de Janeiro contributions. A very partial list through long interviews without November 2020 would certainly include Frank which our study would have been Tannenbaum, Charles Wagley, Ruth far poorer. We especially mention