Denise Dias Barros

PhD at Sociology from Universidade de São Paulo (1999), master's at Antropology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1991) and undergraduate at Ocupacional Therapy from Universidade de São Paulo (1980). Denise Dias Barros has conducted researchers on the social perception of mental illness as well as on migration, tourism and religious practices in the Dogon country, Republic of Mali. Since 2010, the researches's focus has been on mobility of people in Africa, especially between the West and North Africa with field studies in Mali and Egypt. She conducted studies in Brazil on social groups in the process of disruption of social networks. She is researcher and teacher at the University of São Paulo, a founding member of the research network SSIM - Southern Spaces in Movement and of Casa das Áfricas in Sao Paulo. She is also a founding member of Metuia Project, Group inter-institutional research and actions by the citizenship of children, adolescents and adults in process of disruption of social support networks. Denise Dias Barros was a Fellow researcher of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Nantes (2008, 2009) and conducted a post doctorate in France in 2000-2001 by the Laboratoire Systèmes pensée en Afrique noire (École Pratique des Hautes Études, CNRS). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)