Thauany Freire, Ph.D
Visiting Scholar
LALS
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Building & Room:
UH 1507
Address:
601 S. Morgan Street
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About
Thauany Freire is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research focuses on the dynamics of the territorialization of Haitian migration in the urban peripheries of the São Paulo metropolis. During her doctoral internship in the United States, she is critically exploring how capitalist social processes have shaped the current territorial patterns of Haitian migratory mobility. Her work as a visiting scholar includes participation both at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (Graduate Center of the City University of New York) under the supervision of Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and at the Latin American and Latino Studies program at the University of Illinois Chicago under the supervision of Professor Soledad Alvarez Velasco. Her research and internship abroad is funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation). A geographer from the University of São Paulo (2009), she completed her master’s degree in Human Geography (2018) at the same institution, where she investigated the socio-spatial impacts of housing policies implemented by the Inter-American Development Bank in downtown São Paulo during the 2000s.