Faculty Forum with Desiree Poets

In this episode, Desirée Poets explores the removal and suppression of Rio's favelas and the gentrification of Rio de Janeiro due to military and economic development activity, as well as the foundation of her research in the favela of Maré.

Desirée Poets is as assistant professor in Political Science at Virginia Tech and a core faculty member of the disciplinary Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) PhD program. Since 2013, she has been working with urban Indigenous and Black rights movements in Brazil's southeast region. More recently, her work has focused on community museums and her scholarship lies at the intersections of Latin American studies, colonial studies, Black and Indigenous studies, and collaborative and feminist research methods.