Silvia Aguião Rodrigues

Dr. Silvia Aguião is an Associate Researcher at AFRO - Center for Research and Training in Race, Gender and Racial Justice (AFRO-CEBRAP), and at the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/UERJ). She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, a master's degree in Public Health from the Institute of Social Medicine - IMS/UERJ, and a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro - UERJ. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and at the Federal University of Maranhão. Recently, she served as a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Maranhão (2022-2024).Dr. Aguião has extensive expertise in project development and research focusing on the intersections of gender and race with sociability, policies and rights, social movements, and state formation processes. She is the author of the book Fazer-se no Estado: An Ethnography on the Process of Constitution of LGBT People as Subjects of Rights in Contemporary Brazil (Eduerj, 2018). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)