Dr. Vinicius de Carvalho

Dr. Vinicius de Carvalho is the Director the Brazil Institute at King’s College London. He is devoting himself to both the Brazil Institute and the Department of War Studies, playing an active role founding and editing Brasiliana – Journal for Brazilian Studies and as Editor of the Anthem Brazilian Studies Series.

His research and publications on the epistemology of Brazilian Studies are a reference within the field, covering a diverse range of areas including literature, music, religion, history, international relations and defence and security. In the fields of defence and security, Dr Carvalho specializes in Latin American and Brazilian Armed Forces, with reference to historical and contemporary issues.

Dr. Anna Grimaldi

Dr. Anna Grimaldi is Lecturer of Modern Latin American History at King’s College London. She is also an editor of Brasiliana - Journal For Brazilian Studies, and an active member of the Radical Americas Research Network.

Her research looks at how Latin America, as a member of the Global South, has influences global paradigms surrounding human rights and development. Her publications have explored Southern Cone political exile during the Cold War. Currently, Anna's research investigates artistic and political spaces of transnational solidarity for Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.

Ms. Charlotte Bascaule

Charlotte Bascaule is an Undergraduate student in History and International Relations at King's College London. She is a research fellow with the Engelsberg Applied History Programme (KCL Centre for Grand Strategy), currently researching Sino-Japanese historical nationalist grievances around the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. More broadly, Charlotte's research interests focus on national identities, nation-forging processes and nationalism.

Dr. Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

Dr. Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho and Visiting Professor of the University of São Paulo. She has published extensively on European Foreign Policy (CFSP/CSDP) and Portuguese Foreign Policy. Her current research explores the nature and significance of the EU’s strategic partnership diplomacy (with an emphasis on EU-Brazil relations), Europeanisation within and beyond Europe, comparative regional integration and Euroscepticism.

Drawing on her previous scholarly work dedicated to the developing relations between the European Union (EU) and Brazil, Dr. Fereira-Pereira aims to contribute to the “Military in Politics in Brazil” project by investigating the impact of increasing presence of the military in power, particularly conspicuous since 2019, upon Brazil’s foreign policy identity and global role, especially with respect to the main global challenges and interactions with major international powers, placing particular emphasis on the country’s major areas of engagement with EU.

Raphael Lima

Raphael Lima is a PhD student in the Department of War Studies. After receiving his Master's Degree in International Relations from the Interinstitutional Program San Tiago Dantas (São Paulo State University, Campinas State University and PUC-SP), he has gained experience in the Brazilian government in the areas of National Defence, Policy Research, and Scenario Planning.

Raphael’s doctoral thesis, titled “Diffusing military power to contemporary South America: the army transformation paradigm in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia” aims to understand why and how the military transformation agenda diffused from the U.S. and NATO to armies in South America, and what were the socio-political and organisational consequences of this process.

Dr. Kieran Mitton

Dr. Kieran Mitton is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Research Director of the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group, and co-Chair of the Africa Research Group. He is co-founder of the Urban Violence Research Network and an Affiliate of the Brazil Institute.

With extensive experience in Sierra Leone, Brazil and South Africa, he specialises in field research on violence and youth marginality, giving emphasis to the voices of youth, gang-members and affected communities. Kieran is also interested in the challenges faced in war-to-peace transitions, particularly with regard to the disarmament and reintegration of armed groups through both formal and informal processes, giving particular attention to the neglected area of political integration.

Dr. Eleonora Natale

Dr. Eleonora Natale is lecturer in International History and member of the Centre for Grand Strategy at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She is an experienced ethnographer and political scientist working on military issues in Argentina.

Her research focuses on former officers of the Argentine dictatorship (1976-83) and their experiences of political violence, transitional justice and conventional war. Dr. Natale is especially interested in exploring the ‘everyday dimension’ of military life, particularly the social and family spheres. She also works on the Argentine Army’s experiences of combat against Great Britain within the 1982 conflict in the South Atlantic.

Prof. Anthony Pereira

Prof. Anthony Pereira is a Professor in the Brazil Institute and the Department of International Development at King's College London. His research has focused on processes and challenges in democratic transitions in South America —with a focus on Brazil. Particularly concerned with human rights, public security, and state coercion in Brazil, his research has looked at the role of rural trade unions in northeast Brazil in expanding democratic rights in the early 1960s and late 1970s and 1980s. Prof. Pereira has also researched the treatment of dissidents and opponents by the authoritarian regimes in Brazil (1964-85), Argentina (1976-83) and Chile (1973-90), identifying the challenge posed by legacies of “authoritarian legalism” after Brazil’s transition to democracy. More recently, he has also published a book (with Lauro Mattei) on recent changes in Brazil’s economic development model.

Prof. Rafael Villa

Rafael Villa received his BA in Political Science from the Universidad de los Andes, his Masters in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, and his Ph.D in Political Science from the same university. He undertook a postdoctoral position at Columbia University (2008). Currently, Rafael is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at FFLCH-USP, working in the undergraduate program of International Relations and the graduate program in Political Science, and teaching on the theory of international relations and international security and international relations. He is director of the Núcleo de Pesquisas em Relações Internacionais (NUPRI). His research themes are: International Security, United States and Latin America, Brazilian Foreign Policy and non-state actors. He is the author of the book “From the Realism Crisis to Multidimensional Global Security” and co-editor of “Os Clássicos das Relações Internacionais”.

Dr. Anais Medeiros 

Anais is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She received her doctorate in Political Science at the University of Sciences Po in Paris, and is affiliated with their Centre de Recherches Internationales. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Tijuana, Mexico, in de 2017. She is part of the research group NECIP (Núcleo de Estudos em Comportamento e Instituições Políticas), and participates in NUPRI (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Relações Internacionais -USP) and IMDH (Instituto de Memória e Direitos Humanos - UFSC). Her areas of expertise include: Security Policy, The Armed Forces, and Comparative Political Sociology.

Dr. Eduardo Svartman

Eduardo is Lecturer at the Department and Postgraduate Program in Political Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is chair of the Study Group on Security and International Politics, and member of the Center for International Studies on Government (CEGOV). He currently chairs the Brazilian Association for Defense Studies. His expertise lie in the fields of History and Political Science, with an emphasis on History of International Relations, working mainly on the following topics: Brazilian foreign policy, armed forces, and military relations between Brazil and the United States.