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Oswaldo Truzzi Versão em português

Oswaldo Truzzi

Area Panel - Humanities and Social Sciences

Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Graduate Program of the Federal University of São Carlos and 1B Researcher of CNPq (National Council of Scientific and Technological Development).

Academic formation: Industrial Engineer (São Carlos School of Engineering of the Universidade de São Paulo, 1980), Specialization in Public Management (École des Hautes Études Commerciales, 1983), Master's degree in Business Administration (São Paulo School of Business of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, 1985), Fulbright Visiting Scholar (University of Chicago, 1992), Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 1993), Postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago (1996, 2000 and 2006). Guest Speaker at Columbia University (2018), Brown University (2015), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2014), National University of Cordoba, Argentina (2013), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2012), University of Salamanca (2010), American University of Beirut (2006), University of Notre Dame, Lebanon (2006) and University of Chicago (1993).

From 2000 to 2016, Director of the São Carlos Federal University Press. Between 1998 and 2000, and between 2007 and 2009, coordinator of the International Migration Working Group of ANPOCS (National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences). Member of the Red de Estudios Migratorios Transatlánticos (Network of Transatlantic Migration Studies), based at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), in Madrid.

Main research interests in the subjects of Sociology of Migration, Social History of Immigration and Regional History.

Main publications in Brazil and abroad: several articles and books among which stand out: Syrian and Lebanese Patricians in São Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil (2018) [Patrícios – Sírios e Libaneses em São Paulo (2008)]; Imigração nas Américas - estudos de história comparada (2018, co-editor); Italianidade no interior paulista - percursos e descaminhos de uma identidade étnica, 1880-1950 (2016); Atlas da Imigração Internacional em São Paulo, 1850-1950 (2008, co-author); Café, Indústria e Conhecimento: São Carlos, uma história de 150 anos (2008, co-author); Estudos migratórios: perspectivas metodológicas (2005, co-editor).


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