Faculty
Political Science
Sociology
Argelina Maria Cheibub Figueiredo – PhD in Political
Science, University of Chicago
Adalberto Moreira Cardoso – PhD in Sociology,
Universidade de São Paulo
Carlos R. S. Milani – PhD in Developmental Studies,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Alba Maria Zaluar – PhD in Anthropology, Universidade
de São Paulo
Celina Maria de Souza – PhD in Political Science,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Breno Marques Bringel – PhD in Political Science,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Cesar Augusto Coelho Guimarães – PhD in Political
Science, Universidade Candido Mendes
Carlos Antonio Costa Ribeiro – PhD in Sociology,
Columbia University
Christian Edward Cyril Lynch – PhD in Political Science,
Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
Frederic R. N. M. Vandenberghe – PhD in Sociology,
Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Elizabeth Stein – PhD in Political Science, UCLA
Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares – PhD in Sociology,
Washington University
Fabiano Guilherme Mendes Santos – PhD in Political
Science, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de
Janeiro
José Maurício Domingues – PhD in Sociology,
University of London
Fernando Guarnieri – PhD in Political Science,
Universidade de São Paulo
Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva – PhD in Sociology,
Rutgers University
João Feres Júnior – PhD in Political Science, City
Univeristy of New York
Luiz Augusto de Souza Carneiro de Campos – PhD in
Sociology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Maria Regina Soares de Lima – PhD in Political Science,
Vanderbilt University
Nelson do Valle Silva – PhD in Sociology, University of
Michigan
Pedro Hermílio Villas Boas Castelo Branco – PhD in
Political Science, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do
Rio de Janeiro
Renato Raul Boschi – PhD in Political Science, University
of Michigan
Ricardo Ceneviva – PhD in Political Science,
Universidade de São Paulo
Thamy Pogrebinschi – PhD in Political Science, Instituto
Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
Graduate Programs and Research in
POLITICAL SCIENCE
AND SOCIOLOGY
The Institute
The Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) of the
State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), formerly known
as IUPERJ, is a leading research and graduate studies
institute in Latin America. IESP-UERJ was the first graduate
school in Brazil to offer a doctoral degree program in
political science, graduating its first Ph.D. student in 1971.
In the early 1970s IESP-UERJ added graduate programs
in Sociology. Since the Institute’s founding, students
have defended 229 doctoral dissertations and 323
master’s theses in political science and 164 doctoral
dissertations and 238 master’s theses in sociology.
IESP-UERJ has trained many generations of social
scientists, who have gone on to hold faculty positions
in prestigious universities in Brazil and abroad,
as well as having become researchers, political
consultants and administrators in important public
and private institutions.
In the 1970s, IESP-UERJ played a key role in the foundation
of the National Association of Graduate Studies in the
Social Sciences (ANPOCS), Brazil’s largest and oldest
academic association in the fields of political science,
sociology and anthropology. IESP-UERJ also was a chief
supporter of the creation of the Brazilian Political Science
Association (ABCP) in the 1980s, and currently houses the
ABCP’s administrative office. IESP-UERJ is the institutional
home for Dados – Revista de Ciências Sociais, the oldest
and most prestigious social science journal in Brazil.
The faculty members of the sociology and political
science programs at IESP-UERJ have acquired their
professional training at top Brazilian, American and
European universities. The high quality of IESP-UERJ’s
graduate programs is intimately connected to the
multiple research activities developed at the institute
either by individual scholars or through the institute’s 14
research groups and laboratories.
Graduate Program in
Graduate Program in
The Graduate Program in Political Science offers a
master’s degree program (4 semesters) and a Ph.D. program
(8 semesters), which students may do independently of
one another or in sequence. The program allows students
to specialize in the following fields and research topics:
The Graduate Program in Sociology offers a master’s
degree program (4 semesters) and a Ph.D. program (8
semesters), which students may do independently
of one another or in sequence. The program allows
students to specialize in the following fields and
research topics:
Political Science
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International relations and comparative politics:
Comparative political analysis; Democracy, varieties
of capitalism and development in comparative
perspective; International relations and foreign
policy analysis.
Political institutions and political behavior:
Political institutions and public policies; Media and
public opinion; Electoral systems, party systems and
political behavior.
Political theory: Classical, modern and
contemporary political theory; Theories and
methods of historical and non-historical textual
analysis; Brazilian political thought.
Sociology
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Inequalities, social mobility and labor: Social
stratification and mobility; Labor and society;
Quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Political and urban sociology: Collective
action, citizenship and social movements;
Violence, the youth and sociability; Urban and
regional studies.
Social theory: Sociological theories; Social theory
and modernity; Philosophy of the social sciences.
Admissions
a 19th century house in the neighborhood of Botafogo
in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, near the worldfamous neighborhoods of Copacabana and Ipanema.
The institute attracts a large number of foreign academics
and scholars as invited lecturers, visiting researchers,
visiting professors and visiting students. IESP-UERJ
welcomes foreign students from all over the world
to earn their entire graduate degree at the institute.
IESP-UERJ actively seeks to provide these students
with financial support either through scholarships
from Brazilian and foreign funding agencies or through
international agreements.
For more information:
IESP-UERJ is located apart from UERJ’s main campus, in
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Website: http://www.iesp.uerj.br
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (55-21) 2266-8300
Address:
Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos - IESP
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ
Rua da Matriz, 82 - Botafogo
22260-100 Rio de Janeiro - RJ