Name: Denise Ferreira da Silva
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

Director, Latin American Studies Program (CILAS)
Email: dsilva@ucsd.edu
Website: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dsilva/
Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 225
Phone: (858) 534-3405

Education:
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1999
M.A., U. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1991

Field of Expertise:
Silva is an expert on social theory, critical race theory, race politics, cultural studies, global studies, and state and social movements.

Regions of Interest: Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba, U.S.

Media Interview Topics:
Denise Silva can provide commentary on globalization, race and criminalization.

Selected Publications:

(2007) Toward a Global Idea of Race. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.


(2006) " Á Brasileira : Racialidade e o Produto de um Desejo Destrutivo," Revista Estudos Feministas
(Forthcoming)

"The Scene of Nature." David Theo Goldberg and Dragan Kujundzic (eds.) Races : Race in Deconstruction and Critical Theory . Durham : Duke University Press.