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Henrique Assi Hernandes

Linguistic Anthropology

Biography

Henrique (he/him) is an international student from Brazil. He holds a Bachelor's Degree and Teaching License in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. Between 2022 and 2024, he was member of the editorial board of Primeiros Estudos, a social sciences academic journal, and was responsible for recreating the journal's visual identity. In 2023 he was Text/Poetry Finalist of the 30th Nascente USP (the University of São Paulo's yearly cultural contest). Henrique is currently a PhD student of Anthropology at UIUC and a Werner Baer Doctoral Fellow at UIUC's Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies.

Research Interests

Linguistic & Semiotic Anthropology; Anthropology of Music & Ethnomusicology; Racial Semiotics; Language Diversity; Interdisciplinarity; African Diaspora; Afro-Diasporic Communities & Identities; Afro-Brazilian Expressive Culture, Music, & Performance

Education

Bachelor's and Teaching License in Social Sciences (Anthropology, Sociology & Political Science), University of São Paulo, 2024

Awards and Honors

Werner Baer Doctoral Fellowship, 2024

Finalist in the 30th Nascente USP (Text/Poetry), 2023

Additional Campus Affiliations

Werner Baer Doctoral Fellow @ Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

Recent Publications

Hernandes, Henrique A., Guilherme Olímpio Fagundes, Tales Mançano. "Novas Perspectivas sobre W. E. B. Du Bois e Sociologia Pública: uma conversa com Michael Burawoy [New Perspectives about W. E. B. Du Bois and Public Sociology: A Conversation with Michael Burawoy]." Revista Primeiros Estudos 11 (2024): e00115002. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-2423.v10i2pe00115002

Corvisier, Camila M., Guilherme Olímpio Fagundes, Henrique A. Hernandes, Tales Mançano, Caio Labate. "Por uma sociologia do vínculo social: Entrevista com o sociólogo Serge Paugam [For a Sociology of the Social Bond: Interview with Serge Paugam." Revista Primeiros Estudos 11 (2024): e00115001. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-2423.v10i2pe00115001

Mançano, Tales, Henrique A. Hernandes, Lucas de P. Fonseca, and Moisés S. de Sena.  "A aprovação de cotas na Universidade de São Paulo em 2017: o ponto de vista de articuladores pró-cotas na USP [The approval of ethnic-racial quotas at the University of São Paulo in 2017: the viewpoint of pro-quotas articulators]." Estudos de Sociologia 2, no. 29 (2023): 59-81. https://doi.org/10.51359/2317-5427.2023.261410

Hernandes, Henrique A.. "Nas (Entre)Linhas do Labirinto Caroliniano: Questões Sociológicas na Vida e na Literatura de Carolina Maria de Jesus [Between the lines of Carolina's Labyrinth: Sociological Questions in Carolina Maria de Jesus' Life and Work]." Paper presented at II Congresso de Ciências Sociais da UNESP-FCLAR, Araraquara, SP (Online), November 2022. https://congressocs.wixsite.com/congresso2022/anaisdocongresso