Brazilian Studies Research MPhil / PhD

Overview

The Brazil Institute offers supervision for MPhil/PhD research degrees relating to Brazil and draws on academic expertise in a range of disciplinary departments across the College. Supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other staff of the College.  Some details about the members of staff in the Brazil Institute can be found below in the course detail section. 

Current number of academic staff: 4 (plus a visiting professor and associates in a number of other departments).

Current number of research students: 21.

Recent publications:

• The effects of participatory budgeting on municipal expenditures and infant mortality in Brazil
• Sugar and modernity in Latin America
• The embodied state: governmentality in a Brazilian favela
• Ditadura e Repressão [Dictatorship and Repression]
• Brazils Truth Commission: progress or perdition?

Current research projects:

• Representations of violence in Brazilian literature
• The geographies of religion and their connection to governance and globalization
• Relations between Britain and Brazil: from independence to the present day
• Border conflicts between Ceará and Piauí
• Patrimonialism and the Brazilian state

Partner organisations:

• The Institute is closely involved in the Colleges key partnership with the University of São Paulo, as well as a number of other institutional and departmental partnerships in Brazil, with the possibility of research exchanges for postgraduate students. 

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate effectively in English and are able to do so in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

• register on the King's Apply Portal
• complete our online application form