Category Archives: Visiting Scholars

André Luis Leite

I am a Post Doctoral Researcher at PUC/São Paulo and an enthusiast of Social Psychology. My research career was built embracing methodological plurality and interdisciplinarity. Through the last five years,  I have been investigating the impact of strategies adopted by protestors worldwide into activists subjectivity. My research agenda addresses this question: how people trying to change the world are, at the same time, changing themselves? During my Ph.D., I received several grants from the São Paulo Research Foundation and also a prize from the Canadian Federal Government through the Emerging Leaders in Latin America. Supported by these grants, first, I worked at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, hosted by Dr. James Jaspers from the Sociology Department and by Dr. Anna Stetsenko from the Psychology Department; later, at York University in Canada, sponsored by Professor Terry Maley from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought and by Dr. Lesley Wood from the Political Science Department. My research interests are in human development, Social Psychology, Political Psychology, and critical thinking;  my theoretical-methodological perspective steams from the critical participatory action research and Michel Foucault’s studies. 
E-mail: andreluislfs@gmail.com

Alexandre Bortolini

My name is Alexandre Bortolini, I am a Ph.D. student in Education at Universidade de São Paulo and a Visiting Researcher at CUNY’s Ph.D. Program in Sociology, as a Fulbright Grantee. Brazilian LGBTQ activist, and Master in Education, I have a long trajectory constructed on the intersection of gender, education, and politics, acting on non-governmental organizations, schools, universities, and public administration. My current research analyses the role of gender and sexual educational policies in recent political Brazilian history.

Contact – bortolini.alexandre@gmail.com

Guilherme Siqueira Arinelli


I’m a Ph.D. student in School and Educational Psychology at PUC-Campinas (Brazil). From September 2019 to February 2020, I’ve been a visiting scholar in Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center working with professor Anna Stetsenko. I’m a member of the International Society for Cultural-Historical Activity Research (ISCAR), and of the research group Processes of Constitution of the Subject in Educational Practices (PROSPED). My research interests are in human development, school psychology, the psychology of art, educational practices, critical thinking, and professional guidance. My theoretical-methodological perspective is located in Cultural-Historical Psychology, especially the concepts developed by Lev S. Vygotsky.

Contact: gsarinelli@gmail.com

LUCIANA LOBO MIRANDA

Luciana Lobo Miranda is an Associate Professor of Social and Educational Psychology at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. – Ph.D. in Psychology at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC –Rio de Janeiro/ Brazil) with internship doctoral at the Department of Education in Paris -8, Saint Dennis, France in 2000. Visiting Scholar in Critical Social/Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center (CUNY) in 2017/2018. Coordinates the Laboratory of Research in Psychology Subjectivity and Society (LAPSUS). Acts on graduation and post-graduation by teaching, research, and community work. She Develops research on Critical social and Educational Psychology in institutions, mainly public schools. She has been developing CPAR Projects in public schools, in Ceará, Brazil.

POSITION : Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTEREST:  Social Psychology; Educational Psychology; CPAR.

At Cuny – Visiting Scholar  at Graduate Center-  CUNY / Critical Social/Personality Psychology

Research Project: Dialogues between intervention research in Brasil and critical participatory action research (PAR) in the U.S with DR. Michelle Fine

Contacts: lobo.lu@uol.com.br

Brazilian Adress – Department of Psychology – Universidade Federal do Ceará

Address: Av. da Universidade, 2762 – Benfica – CEP 60020-180 – Fortaleza – CE

 (85) 3366 7651 FAX: 55 (85) 3366 7661

Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4519037978963137

Dr. Prof. ZULMIRA ÁUREA CRUZ BOMFIM

Zulmira Bomfim is an Associated Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. Coordinates the Laboratory of Research in Environmental Psychology (Locus). Acts on graduation and post-graduation by teaching, research, and community work. Bomfim did her Ph.D. training at the University of Barcelona, studying public space and urban renew. Develop research on social and environmental vulnerabilities in the field of cities, neighborhoods, and institutions. She has been developing action-research in public schools, social assistance and community leaders in Ceará, through a participative method called affective maps, originally from her doctoral thesis. In addition, she works with integrative practices with Biodance, a therapeutic and participative method involving music and dance. POSITION: Titular Professor

CAMPUS AFFILIATION: Federal University of Ceará  (Brazil) – Benfica


DEGREES/DIPLOMA: Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo

RESEARCH INTEREST:  Socio-environmental psychology and affectivity

Contact: zulaurea@gmail.com