Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a Brazilian anthropologist, currently a professor at the School of Geography at University College Dublin. She has been a lecturer at the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath and studies the economic and political effects of trade in the Global South, particularly in Brazil and China. She is also a columnist for The Intercept.

Education and early career Pinheiro-Machado earned a BA in social sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2002, a discipline which she chose with the intention of preparing herself for a political career. However, during this program she began to instead focus on anthropology and ethnography, She was also a visiting student at University College London in 2008.

Pinheiro-Machado was a lecturer at the University of Oxford She has also held visiting positions at Harvard University and the University of São Paulo. In 2016, she became a visiting professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, and in 2019 she became a professor there.

In 2020, Pinheiro-Machado published the book Amanhã vai ser maior. The book traces the events in recent Brazilian history that led up to the election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil, and argues that there are imminent opportunities for the Brazilian left to challenge the right wing government. She has also written pieces in other prominent media outlets like The Washington Post and Jacobin, and her opinions and work have received frequent coverage in outlets like Zero Hora.

Selected works China, Passado e Presente (2011) Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil (2017) Amanha vai ser maior (2020)