Choices and Historical Processes: Elisa Reis in Conversation with Luciana de Souza Leão

Luciana de Souza Leão; Elisa P. Reis

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/18075

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Luciana de Souza Leão Department of Sociology, University of Michigan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-4306

Luciana de Souza Leão is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, interested in knowledge-making processes, inequalities, and the State. She received her PhD in Sociology at Columbia University in 2019. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, and Politics & Society, among others. She teaches courses in Global Poverty and Inequality, Political Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge.
Elisa P. Reis Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Graduate Program of Sociology and Anthropology (UFRJ/PPGSA) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9752-8367

Elisa P. Reis is a Professor of Political Sociology and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Social Inequalities (NIED), and holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT. She is a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and of the International Science Council (ISC). The author of a long list of articles and books published in Brazil and elsewhere, she has been a visiting professor in European and American Universities.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/18075

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Political Sociology, Elites, Inequality, Brazil, States

Abstract

In this interview with Luciana de Souza Leão, her former student, Elisa Reis discusses her intellectual trajectory and how it shaped her research projects and teaching in sociology. Specifically, they talk about Reis’ work in political sociology, sociological theory, elite’s perceptions of poverty and inequality, comparative methodologies, and the current politics of knowledge production in the Global South.

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