Last updated May 31, 2015
LUISA FARAH SCHWARTZMAN
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
[email protected]
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Fall 2009Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University, Fall 2006
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
MA, Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 2000
BA, Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1999
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Angela Randolpho Paiva. "Not Just Racial Quotas: Affirmative
Action in Brazilian Higher Education 10 Years Later." British Journal of Sociology of Education,
2014, doi 10.1080/01425692.2014.973015.
Kesler, Christel and Luisa Farah Schwartzman. "From Multi-Racial Subjects to Multi-Cultural
Citizens: Social Stratification and Ethnic and Racial Classification among Children of Immigrants
in the United Kingdom." International Migration Review, 2014, doi: 10.1111/imre.12101.
Elrick, Jennifer and Luisa Farah Schwartzman. "From Statistical Category to Social Category:
Organized Politics and Official Categorizations of ‘Persons with a Migration Background’ in
Germany." Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 38, n. 9, pp.1539-1556, 2015.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Simon Schwartzman. "Migration de personnes hautement
qualifiées au Brésil. De l’isolement à l’insertion internationale?" Brésil(s), Vol. 7, pp. 147-172.
2015.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Graziella Moraes D. Silva "Unexpected Narratives from
Multicultural Policies: Translations of Affirmative Action in Brazil." Latin American and
Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Vol.7, No.1, 2012.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, “Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial
Categories in a Brazilian University.” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 41, part 2, May
2009.
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Reprinted in: Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Heidi Mork Lomell and Svein Hammer (eds.), The
Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society. Routledge, July 2010.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, “Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in
Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education.” Cahiers de la Recherche
sur l'Éducation et les Savoirs, No. 7, October 2008.
De Vos, Susan and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, “Using Union Status or Marital Status to Study the
Living Arrangements of Elderly People.” Research on Aging, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 474-487, July
2008.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, “Does Money Whiten? Intergenerational Changes in Racial
Classification in Brazil.” American Sociological Review, Vol 72, pp. 940-963, December 2007.
BOOK REVIEW
Review of: Bailey, Stanley. Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes and Politics in Brazil. Stanford
University Press, 2009. Canadian Journal of Sociology 35 (1), Winter 2010.
ARTICLES UNDER JOURNAL REVIEW
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah. "The Integration of the White into the Community of Color."
ARTICLES IN PREPARATION
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Bahar Hashemi. "Canadian Multiculturalism and Brazilian Racial
Democracy."
TEACHING
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (undergraduate)
Race and Ethnicity in the Americas (undergraduate)
Sociology of International Migration (undergraduate)
Statistics for Sociologists (graduate)
Ethnicity I (graduate)
Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University
Social Problems in the United States (undergraduate)
RESEARCH SUPERVISED
Master's level "Major Research Paper"
Lisa Nguyen, "The Racialization of Space in Lawrence Heights: Colonial Urban Design in Social
Housing." September 2011.
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RESEARCH GRANTS
Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto, 2011-2012 (CAN$10,000)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Research Development
Initiative grant (CAD $39,358.00), 2010-2012.
Norwegian Research Council grant
For dissertation research and writing, received as part of a joint project with a group of
researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, led by Prof. Ann
Rudinow Saetnan. 2005-2006.
Vilas Travel Grant
Small grant to pay for dissertation research in Brazil, conducted in the Fall of 2005, given by the
UW Madison Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS)
Tinker-Nave Short-Term Field Research Grant.
For pre-dissertation field research in Brazil, which was conducted in October 2004, given by the
UW Madison Graduate School.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah. "The Integration of the White into the Community of Color." Annual
meeting of the Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah. "Canadian Multiculturalism and Brazilian Racial Democracy."
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, May 2014
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Jennifer Elrick, "Die Migrationshintergrundstatistik: The Political
Impact of Statistical Categories in Contemporary Germany." Meeting of the Society for the
Social Studies of Science (4S). San Diego, October 2013.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, "The Integration of the White into the Society of Color." American
Sociological Association Meeting, New York, NY, August 2013.
Kesler, Christel and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, " From Multi-Racial Subjects to Multi-cultural
Citizens: Racial and Ethnic Identification and the Incorporation of the Immigrant Second
Generation in the United Kingdom." American Sociological Association Meeting, New York,
NY, August 2013.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, "How do Brazilians Check Racial Boxes?" Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History Association," Chicago, IL, November 2010
Paiva, Angela Randolpho and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, "Quantifying and Qualifying Brazilian
Affirmative Action Experiences." International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Toronto, October 2010.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah and Graziella Moraes D. Silva, "Unexpected Narratives from
Multicultural Policies: Translations of Affirmative Action in Brazil." Mini-conference:
"Rethinking Multiculturalism: Brazil, Canada and the United States." York University, Toronto,
January 2010
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Kesler, Christel and Luisa Farah Schwartzman “Immigration and Ethnic Boundary-Crossing in
Britain: A Multi-Generational Approach.” Research Committee on Social Stratification and
Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association, Stanford, CA, August 2008.
Silva, Graziella Moraes D. and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, “Glocalizing Affirmative Action.”
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008.
Loveman, Mara, Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Nadji Aïssa Khefif, and Ann Rudinow Sætnan,
“Now We Count It, Now We Don’t: A Four-country Comparison on the Use and Non-use of
Contested Census Categories.” European Association for the Study of Science and Technology,
Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2006.
Silva, Graziella Moraes D. and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, “Discourses of Difference and
Equality in an Affirmative Action Context in Brazil: the Local, the National, the Global.” XIV
International Sociological Association World Congress in Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July
2006.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, “Official and Unofficial Understandings of Racial Categories in the
State University of Rio de Janeiro.” International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah, “Mobility Beliefs and Explanations for Racial Inequality: a U.S.Brazil Comparison.” Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee
on Social Stratification (RC28), Oslo, May 2005.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah “Does Money Whiten? Educational Mobility of Parents and Racial
Classification of Children in Brazil.” Meeting of the International Sociological Association
Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28), Rio de Janeiro, August 2004.
De Vos, Susan and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, “Gender and Racial Differences in the Health of
Older People (60+) in Brazil” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, April
2004.
Swallen, Karen and Luisa Farah Schwartzman, “Death of a Parent and Risk-Taking: Midlife
Assessment.” Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2002.
INVITED LECTURES
"Ten years of affirmative action in Brazilian universities - what happened to the racial
agenda?" Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, September 2011
"From Multi-Racial Subjects to Multi-Cultural Citizens: Social Stratification and
Ethnoracial Classification among Children of Immigrants in the UK," Department of
Sociology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, May 2011.
"Race-based Affirmative Action in Brazilian Universities," Speaker Series organized by the
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
(Cinvestav) and Ford Foundation, Guadalajara, Mexico, May 2010
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"Unexpected Narratives from Multicultural Policies: Translations of Affirmative Action in
Brazil," Latin American Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, January 2010.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Honorable Mention in the 2008 competition for the University of Wisconsin's “Genevieve Gorst
Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences" for Does Money Whiten?
Intergenerational Changes in Racial Classification in Brazil.
Aage B. Sorensen Award to attend the meeting of the International Sociological Association’s
Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28). 2004.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Manuscript reviewer: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and
Racial Studies, Social Problems, Latin American Politics and Society, Sociological Perspectives
Panel organizer: "Racialized constructions of nations." Annual meeting of the Social Science
History Association, Toronto, November 2014.
Panel organizer: "'Race' in the Americas: Lessons from Brazil?" International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, May 2014
Panel organizer: "New Policies of Racial and Socioeconomic Inclusion in Brazilian Higher
Education: What did we learn?," International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Toronto, October 2010.
Session organizer: "Perspectives on Citizenship" Regular Session at the 2011 American
Sociological Association meeting
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Social Science History Association
Population Association of America
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