Jeffrey Lesser
Jeffrey Lesser is a U.S.-based historian of Latin America who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor. Prior to that he was the Winship Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. After two terms as the chair of the History Department at Emory University he was named the first faculty director of the Halle Institute for Global Research . He is the author of numerous books on ethnicity, immigration and national identity in Brazil.
Lesser studied at Brown University and then earned a Ph.D. in Latin American history at New York University where he studied with the late Warren Dean. He was the Fulbright Chair of the Humanities at Tel Aviv University and also has held visiting professorships at the University of São Paulo and the State University of Campinas. In 2007-08, he served as president of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin Americanists affiliated with the American Historical Association. In 2015 Lesser founded the "Lesser Research Collective" and became a Research Scholar at the with a project on the historical relationship between health and migration in Brazil.
He is the author of a number of monographs in English and Portuguese including,, , and . In 2013 Lesser released , which was revised and published in Brazil as .
