Vol. 42, N° 3, September/December, 2020

About the authors

Alexis Henshaw is assistant professor of Political Science at Troy University and was for-merly Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University. Her research interests include gen-der in international politics, civil conflict and political violence in Latin America. She is the author of Why Women Rebel (Routledge, 2017) and co-author of Insurgent Women(Georgetown University Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Global Security Studies and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (forthcoming).

Amanda Álvares Ferreira is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and holds a master’s degree in International Relations by the same institution. Her master’s degree research focused on Latin American feminist and queer theories as well as feminist thinking on prostitution and sex trafficking. Her current research is focused on theories of sovereignty and resis-tance within and without the discipline of International Relations, with a specific focus on theories and practices of gender and sexuality that relate to such themes. Other research interests are contemporary feminist and queer theory, studies of gender and sexuality, political theory, and theory of International Relations.

Andrea Molinari is a Researcher at CONICET/IIEP-BAIRES, Professor in the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, and Doctor in Economics (University of Sussex). Her main field of study is international economics, with a focus on regional productive integration, South-South cooperation and financing for development. Andrea has extensive professional and academic experience. She has worked both in national and in-ternational institutions (Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank, Ministry of Industry of Argentina, European Commission, the World Bank and Central Bank of Argentina). In academia, she has taught international economics, European econ-omy, macroeconomics and microeconomics (in Argentina and the United Kingdom). She wrote several international political economy articles, mainly analysing multilateral and regional development banks, and has become an expert in the field.

Angélica Szucko is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the University of Brasília (UnB) with a scholarship supported by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) within the Ministry of Education of Brazil. Her research focuses on the UK-EU relationship and the paths that led to the Brexit process. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Brasília, Brazil. She did a Doctoral internship at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, and worked as a temporary Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in 2017 and 2018.

Flávia Belmont is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and holds a master’s degree in International Relations by the same institution. Her master’s research focused on heteronormativity, international LGBT identity politics and redistributive justice. She is mostly interested in the imbrications between political economy, nation and identity, international theory, and feminist and queer theory. Her current academic research centres on queer and decolonial critiques of the nation-state by analysing family arrangements and forms of identification and disidentification with the Western traditional family ideal as constitutive of moderni-ty but which has changed depending on political contexts and rhetoric.

Francisco Paolo Vieira Miguel obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2011) and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Brasília University (UnB) (2014), whose master thesis was elected the Best Thesis and Dissertation Award for 2014. He is a Doctor in Social Anthropology from the Brasília University (UnB) (2019). He is also a member of the Group of Studies in African Contexts (ECOA/PPGAS/UNB) and a former temporary instructor at the Department of Collective Health (UnB). He is the author of the book ‘Levam má bô: homossexualidades masculinas em um arquipélago africano’ (2016) and published many scientific papers. His current research interests are on sexuality, gender, history, health, and political movements in African lusophone countries.

Igor Sabino is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He holds a BA and an MA in international relations from the State University of Paraíba and is a member of both the Center for Comparative Politics and International Relations Studies – NEPI/UFPE/CNPq and the Center for Study and Research on Environmental Displaced Persons – NEPDA. An alumnus of the Philos Leadership Institute (2017), Igor  is a Tikvah Fellow (2020). His main area of interest is Religion and International Relations, having conducted field research in Poland, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan related to forced migration and religious persecution. He is currently writing about US foreign policy, refugee protection, and Christian Zionism.

Isabelle Christine Somma de Castro is a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a member of the Center for Research of International Relations (Nupri-USP), the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies of the USA (INCT-Ineu) and the Triple Frontier and International Relations Research Center (GTF/Unila). She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (USP). She was a visiting student at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge with a Capes fellowship and a visiting Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, with a FAPESP fellowship.

Jaya Jacobo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Filipino in the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University in Loyola Heights where she teaches literature and gender studies. At the University of the Philippines in Diliman, she is Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the international arts and community consortium GlobalGRACE Gender and Cultures of Equality supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund of the United Kingdom Research Innovation. She holds the PhD in Comparative Literature and the MA in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York through a Fulbright Scholarship. Jacobo is former Chair of the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle of the Philippines, a Founding Co-Editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and Co-Editor of BKL/Bikol Bakla: Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing.

Leticia Patrucchi is a Sociologist (University of Buenos Aires) with a Master’s degree in Public Administration (University of Buenos Aires). Currently, she works as a Teaching Researcher at the National University of Moreno and the National University of General Sarmiento. Her main field of study is development and State capacity, and she has written various national and international political economy articles. Also, she has developed her professional activity at the municipal and national levels of Government in international relations topics. She worked as Coordinator of Institutional Relations with International Credit Organizations of the (then) Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of Argentina (between 2011-2015).

Mariah Rafaela Silva is a doctoral researcher in Communication at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). She has a degree in Art History from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a master’s degree in History, Theory and Criticism of Culture from the Universidade do Estado de Amazonas (UEA). She is a substitute professor at the School of Fine Arts at UFRJ, in the Department of History and Theory of Art. She was also an exchange student at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal where she studied gender, migratory flows and globalization. She is a collaborator with the NGO Conexão G for LGBT Citizenship in Favelas. A social activist, she has acted on different fronts around the planet to defend human rights for all humans.

Octávio Forti Neto is Professor at Centro Universitário do Vale do Ribeira (University Center of Vale do Ribeira – UNIVR), with a Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Master’s in political science at University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He serves as Director of Economic Development, Science, Technology and Innovation for the City of Registro, São Paulo. His research is concentrated on regional integration, democracy, rule of law, citizen security and regional organisation. He worked as a research assistant in the project ‘The EU, Regional Conflicts and the Promotion of Regional Cooperation: A Successful Strategy for a Global Challenge?’

Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel is a Ph.D. in International Strategic Studies (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), M.Sc. in Geography (UFRGS) and MBA in Public Management (UFSM) and Municipal Public Management (UNIFESP). He is also an Economist and Professor of International Relations at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Porto Alegre, Brazil and a researcher at the ‘Novos Polos de Poder e a Política Internacional’ (ESPM/CNPq), Laboratory State and Territory (LABETER/UFRGS/CNPq) and Economy of the Sea (EGN/CNPq) research groups. The author has as main research interests and production: international migration, geoeconomics and geopolitics in the Post-Western world. The most recent book published by the author is ‘Migrações internacionais e agência estatal: o estado da arte no Brasil’ (NEA Edições, 2017).

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