Sean Purdy
Current affiliations
- Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of the United States
Areas of interest
- History of the Americas
Biography
Sean Purdy is professor of the History of the Americas at the University of São Paulo since 2006. His research focuses on workers' and social movements in the United Status, Canada and Brazil in the post-Second World War era. He has published widely in English and Portuguese in historical and social science journals as well as in the popular press. He has translated four books from Portuguese to English as well as dozens of specialist journal articles.
Ph.D, Queen's University
MA, Queen's University
BA, Carleton University
Select publications
With Ruy Braga, “A precarious hegemony: neoliberalism, social struggles, and the end of Lulismo in Brazil,” in Alf Gunvald Nilsen.,Karl von Holdt, eds. Rising Powers, People Rising Neoliberalization and its Discontents in the BRICS Countries. London: Routledge, 2021.
“Brazil’s June Days of 2013: Mass Protest, Class, and the Left,” Latin American Perspectives, v.46, n.4 (July 2019): 15-36.
O General Estadista: Douglas MacArthur e o Século Americano. São Paulo: Intermeios, 2018.
“Framing Regent Park: The National Film Board of Canada and the Construction of Outcast Spaces in the Inner City, 1953 and 1994,” in James Opp and John Walsh, eds. Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2015.
