Orlandina de Oliveira

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Orlandina de Oliveira
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Orlandina de Oliveira Barbosa

(1943-04-25) 25 April 1943 (age 79)
NationalityMexican
Occupation(s)sociologist, feminist
Years active1969-present

Orlandina de Oliveira (born 1943) is a Brazilian-born, naturalized Mexican sociologist and professor. Her areas of expertise are on social inequality, the status of women and youth, and the dynamics of labor markets. She has earned numerous honors for her academic research from international universities including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Harvard University.

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Biography

Orlandina de Oliveira Barbosa [1] was born on 25 April 1943 in Araguari, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [2] She earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Politics in 1966 from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and in 1968 obtained a Master's in sociology from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociaes (FLACSO) (Latin American Social Sciences Institute) of Santiago, Chile. [3]

During 1969, de Oliveira worked as a research associate at FLACSO's in Santiago and in 1970 moved to Mexico. She began a professorship in February 1970 at the Center for Economic and Demographic Studies at El Colegio de México (COLMEX). [3] In 1972, she became a naturalized Mexican citizen. [2] De Oliveira earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. [3] After completing her doctorate, de Oliveira returned to the Colegio de México and has worked in the Center for Sociological Studies since that time, earning her promotion to the National System of Researchers (SNI) in 1984. Between 1986 and 1987 she served as Academic Coordinator of the Center for Sociological Studies (CES) and from 1988 to 1993 was the Director of CES. [3]

She has held numerous posts as both a visiting researcher and a visiting professor. From 1980 to 1981 she was visiting researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, São Paulo, Brazil and a visiting researcher in 1989 at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. [3] She was honored as the Edward Larocque Tinker Chair by the University of Texas in 1992. [4] In 1994 she was a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [3] From 1994 to 1995 she was honored with the Simon Bolivar Chair from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de L'Amerique Latine at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle. [5] In November 1998 she taught a seminar entitled "Démodynamiques" at the Institut national d'études démographiques in Paris. [6]

From 2000 to 2002, de Oliveira was a researcher with the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development working on research about globalization and its effects on the employment of women. [7] She returned to the University of Paris in the academic year 2001-2002, when she was honored as the Alfonso Reyes Chair for the Institut des Hautes Etudes de L'Amerique Latine, Paris. [8] She was honored in the 2003-2004 academic year as the Madero Visiting Scholar for the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [9] From 2004 to 2005, she was visiting researcher at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. [3]

She has continued to research and publish in Mexico, with many books and articles appearing through 2014. [10]

Awards

Selected works

Books

Articles

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