OUR PROFESSORS PROJECT COORDINATORS AT LAPRI:

CATARINA BEZERRA

She was an intern at New Humanity NGO for five months, specifically working at the United Nations Office in New York. She has a master's degree from the Post-Graduate Program in International Relations from the Paraíba State University (PPGRI - UEPB) as a CAPES scholarship program. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the State University of Paraíba (UEPB). She works and researches in the areas of World Peace and Security Studies, Postcolonialism, Conflict Transformation, Nonviolence, Gender and Peace, Peace Movements, Nonviolent Communication, Peacebuilding Circles and Mediation.


CRISTINA DE LELIS

Holds a bachelor's degree in Languages - Portuguese and English from Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Caruaru. Specialist in Teaching English Language, by Faculdades Integradas de Vitória de Santo Antão. Currently she teaches regular education in the public and private schools, besides teaching foreign languages at the TCentro Universitário Tabosa de Almeida, both in the city of Caruaru. She has been teaching for about 18 years in the Language Studies area, with emphasis on English Language.

EMERSON DE ASSIS 

He holds a Doctorate in Law (2018) and a Master's degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE (2007), and a Law Bachelor's degree from the Centro Universitário Tabosa de Almeida da Associação Caruaruense de Ensino Superior - ASCES/UNITA (2004), and is also a technician in economic development from FAO/SUDENE. He is currently a professor in the courses of Political Science, Law and International Relations at the Centro Universitário Tabosa de Almeida da Associação Caruaruense de Ensino Superior (ASCES/UNITA). He has experience in the area of associativism, working mainly on the following topics: general theory of law (hermeneutics and legal decision), public and private international law, human rights (transitional justice) and associativism (social capital).

GUSTAVO ROCHA

He holds a Doctorate in Political Science, area of concentration International Politics, from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2019), a Master's degree in Economics, area of concentration International Relations and Foreign Trade (2012), also from the Federal University of Pernambuco and has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Integrated Faculty of Recife (2008). He is currently Assistant Professor III at the Centro Universitário Tabosa de Almeida (ASCES-UNITA), is Vice-Leader and Researcher at the Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Desenvolvimento e Regiões - D&R (UFPE) and Researcher at the Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Ásia-Pacífico -GEPAP (UEPB) and university professor at the Faculdade Escritor Osman da Costa Lins (this, licensed). He has experience in the area of Political Science, with emphasis on International Political Economy, acting mainly on the following themes: Brazilian foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, paradiplomacy, globalization, subnational actors, china and new international financial institutions.

LUCAS GALINDO

Doctoral degree at the Università di Roma 'LA SAPIENZA', the largest university campus on the European Continent, holds a Master's degree in Sociology, with emphasis on Scientific Methodology, from the Department of Sociology and Political Sciences of the Faculty of Political Sciences 'Cesare Alfieri' of the University of Florence in Italy (2007) - European Center of Excellence. He has conducted scientific research, with emphasis in Sociology and Ethnology, for the University of Florence and for the NGO 'New Humanity' - official partner of UNESCO and member of ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations), raised to the highest degree of consultative status in the UN - of which he is a permanent collaborator. For two mandates, he was National Secretary of CIVITAS - Cultural and Citizenship Association, and was a Member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy and Language Studies of Caruaru-PE. He is currently a Research Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies IEA, and is co-founder and honorary General Director of the 'Elíseos' Institute - Education & Culture.

MANUELLA DONATO

Master's degree in International Relations from the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals. Master in Political Science and specialist in Gender, Development and Public Policies from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Faculdade Integrada do Recife. Doctorate in Sociology from UFPE, with a research internship at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. She is a member of the research group Human Rights, Power, and Culture in Gender and Sexuality (UFPE). She is an Assistant Professor at Centro Universitário Tabosa de Almeida  and Innovation Analyst at Porto Digital's Management Center. She has experience in the area of International Organizations and Transnational Activism, with emphasis on the agendas of HIV/AIDS, Gender, Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights, having coordinated and acted in networks and national, regional and international civil society organizations, with a focus on monitoring public policies and advocacy strategies.

ROSSANA COLA 

Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Centro Universitário Vila Velha (UVV), in 2007, and Master's degree in International Relations from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), in 2010. She worked as a professor at the Gemology Department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes), teaching the subjects International Trade of Gems and Jewelry, Business Development, Economic Gemology III and Strategic Management of Productive Chains, from February 2012 to May 2013. She also worked as a professor at the Gemology Department at Ufes, in the subject Entrepreneurial Development, from November 2013 to March 2014. Currently, she is a professor of Administration, Economics and International Transportation at the University Center Vale do Ipojuca (UNIFAVIP / DEVRY) and professor of the International Relations course, in areas related to International Trade and Brazilian Foreign Trade, at theAssociação Caruaruense de Ensino Superiror (ASCES), in Caruaru (PE). Research Areas: Economics, International Economics, International Trade, Brazilian Foreign Trade, History of International Relations, Brazilian Foreign Policy, International Negotiations, Strategic Management, Leadership and Business Development.