Education: 

Ph.D. in Anthropology - 2002

University of Florida (USA)

 

Master of Arts in English - 1992

Millersville University of Pennsylvania (USA)

 

Bachelor in Accounting - 1988

Federal University of Ceará (Brazil)

 

 

Professional and Teaching Experience:

Researcher - Idaho State University (USA) - 2010 

Project entitled “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS” [acronym: SOCNET], funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

 

Director of International Affairs - 2004-2009

University of Fortaleza - (Brazil)

 

Visiting Scholar -January 2009

Cottey College, Missouri (USA)

Course Taught: Perspectives on Brazil

 

Lecturer - January 2009

Campbellsville University, Kentucky (USA)

Lectures: Religion in Brazil's Free Market of Faith

              Race Relations in Brazil

 

Scholar-In-Residence - January 2008

Millersville University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Course Taught: Perspectives on Brazil

 

Professor of Anthropology - 2003-2009

University of Fortaleza (Brazil)

 

Professor of Portuguese as a Second Language - 2007-2009

University of Fortaleza (Brazil)

 

Professor of English as a Foreign Language - 2003 - 2008

University of Fortaleza (Brazil)

 

Research Coordinator - 2001-2002

Research Project: Religious Transnationalism among Brazilians, Mexicans and Guatemalans in South Florida.

University of Florida (USA)

 

Teaching Assistant of Portuguese - 1994-2001

University of Florida (USA)

 

Teaching Assistant of English as a Second Language - 1992-1994

English Language Institute (ELI)

University of Florida (USA)

 

Teaching Assistant - History of Brazilian Popular Music - 1994-2000

University of Florida (USA)

 

 

Scholarly Writing:

"Religion in Brazil's Free Market of Faith" - 2009

Campbellsville Review - Volume 4

 

"O Maracatu Transnacional" - 2006

Lúmen Journal - Volume 15 (2) ISSN 01023-9512

 

"The Road to Spiritism" - 2005

Durham Anthropology Journal - Volume 12 (2) ISSN 1742-2930

<www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology.journal/vol13/iss2/bezerra/bezerra.html>

 

Business Incubation: Emerging Trens for Profitability and Economic Development in the USA, Central Asia, and the Middle-East. A Report Prepared for the US Department of Commerce, Washington D.C. - 2002.

<http://www.technology.gov/reports/TechPolicy/incub_report-0305.pdf>.

 

"Brazil" In Country and Their Cultures Encyclopedia - 2001

Macmillan Reference

 

 

Conferences:

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections - International Conference of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

24-27 September 2009 - Yale University, USA.

Poster Presented: Healing and Meaning in Spiritism: An Oasis of Hope in a Desert of Afflictions.

 

61st NAFSA Conference (Association of International Educators)

26-29 May 2009

Los Angeles, CA., USA.

 

60th NAFSA Conference (Association of International Educators)

25-30 May 2008

Washington, D.C., USA.

 

XIX Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Universities Forum for International Studies.

17-20 April 2007

Curitiba, PR., Brazil.

 

VIII BRASA - Brazilian Studies Association Conference at Vanderbilt Univerity.

Paper Presented: The Road to Spiritism

13-16 October 2006

Nashville, TN, USA.

 

II International Symposium on Religion, Religiosities and Cultures.

23-26 April 2006

Dourados, MS, Brazil.

 

XIV Bienal Conference of the Inter-American Organization of Higher Education (IOHE/OUI).

2-5 October 2005

Florianópolis, S.C., Brazil.

 

American Anthropological Association Conference - 1996.

San Francisco, CA., USA.

 

 

Scholarships and Grants: 

CAPES - Graduate Studies Scholarship given by the Brazilian Government.

1996-1998

 

International Peace Scholarship - 1996, 1997, 1998.

 

 

Field Research:

Field Research for Ph.D. Dissertation - The Appeal of Spiritism to its Followers in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil (February to August 1998).

 

Affiliations:

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

 

 

Language Skills:

Portuguese - Native Speaker

English - Near Native Proficiency

Spanish - High Comprehension - Speaking - Reading Levels

Italian - High Comprehension - Speaking - Reading Levels

German - Reasonable Comprehension - Speaking - Reading Levels

 

Courses Taught:

Perspectives on Brazil (at Cottey College and Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA).

Brazilian History and Culture (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Anthropological History and Theory (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Anthropology of Religion (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Medical Anthropology (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Anthropology and Tourism (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Research Methods (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

English as a Foreign Language (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Portuguese as a Second Language (at University of Fortaleza, Brazil).

Human Sexuality (at University of Florida, USA).

Beginning Portuguese (at University of Florida, USA).

Intermediate Portuguese (at University of Florida, USA).

Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (at University of Florida, USA).

History of Brazilian Popular Music (at University of Florida, USA).

English Grammar (at English Language Institute - University of Florida, USA).

English Composition (at English Language Institute - University of Florida, USA).

English Conversation (at English Language Institute - University of Florida, USA).