Douglas de Toledo Piza Curriculum Vitae May 2015 th th pizad016@newschool.edu | 6 East 16 street, 9 floor, New York, NY 10003 Education 2013 – present Ph.D. Student | The New School for Social Research, New York Graduate Program in Sociology 2012 Master of Arts | University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil Graduate Program in Sociology Awarded Thesis: A Story of Globalization as Told by 25 de Março Street: Chinese Migrants and “Informal” Commerce. 2009 Bachelor of Arts | University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil International Relations Summer Courses 2014 Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. Humboldt University and WZB, Berlin, Germany. 2007 China’s Reforms and its Global Impacts. Institute of Economic Research Foundation – FIPE, São Paulo, Brazil. Professional Experience Research 06/2014 – Present Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility | New York Research Assistant Organize the 2014-15 Lecture Series – “Rethinking Refugee Spaces: Architecture, Design and Politics.” Organize academic conferences. Oversee working groups. 08/2014 – Present New School for Social Research (NSSR) | New York Research Assistant Assist prof. Alexandra Délano in conducting investigations (on NAFTA’s impact on Mexican migration; on the role of origin country’s diapora policy for integration and citizenship; on memory and migration). Collect and analyze data. Write reports. 08/2014 – Present Public Seminar | New York Research Assistant Assist the editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldfarb. Prepare newsletters. 02/2012 – Present Anglo Americano College (FAA) | Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil Research Group Coordinator Develop and coordinate the research project Lebanese and Chinese Migration to the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay Tri-border Area. Foster theoretical and methodological discussion. Train students to collect qualitative data. Analyze data and write reports. Present academic papers to various congresses. Organize academic conferences. 08/2007 – 06/2008 Social Observatory Institute (IOS) | São Paulo, Brazil Researcher Performed a research investigation. Collected and analyzed data. Wrote reports. Presented the results to various congresses. 04/2007 – 04/2008 Conectas Human Rights | São Paulo, Brazil Volunteer Research Assistant Performed a research investigation. Collected and analyzed data. Co-wrote the publication Human Rights Yearbook - 2007. Organized colloquia. Did paperwork. Assisted refugee seekers. Wrote policy memos regarding mobility and displacement violence and women’s human rights violations. Teaching 02/2012 – 07/2013 Anglo Americano College (FAA) | Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil Instructor, International Relations Prepared syllabi and in-class strategies: Introduction to Sociology; Contemporary Sociological Theory; Contemporary Political Science Theory; Anthropology; Culture and Globalization. Taught classes and was available in office hours. Graded papers. Advised BA thesis. Sat in BA thesis committees. 08/2011 – 12/2011 University of São Paulo (USP) | São Paulo, Brazil Teaching Assistant Helped preparing syllabus. Led sessions and was available in office hours: Economic Sociology. Graded papers. 01/2010 – 12/2010 Objetivo High School | Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, Brazil Instructor of Sociology Prepared syllabi and in-class strategies: Modernity and social transformation; Group, Identity and Stigma. Taught classes. Performed an out-of-class, socially-engaged project with marginalized populations in underserved neighborhoods. Research Projects 2013 – Present The New School for Social Research | Graduate Program in Sociology | New York, NY Governing Flows: International Migration and Market Regulation in a Tri-Border Area. This Ph.D. research project focuses on Ciudad del Este, a city created by decree in the 1960s in the Paraguay-Brazil-Argentina tri-border area. It aims to understand how state regulations on market issues encourage migration in order to make sense of the nature of contemporary capitalism and state. It is based on critical analyses of national and local legislation, ethnography and interviews, and puts forth the hypothesis that in the last half- century states have shifted their capabilities from ensuring national identities and sovereignties to promoting globalization processes. 2010 - 2012 University of São Paulo (USP) | Graduate Program in Sociology | São Paulo, Brazil Relational Networks of Chinese Migrants and "Informal" Commerce: A Story of Globalization as Told by 25 de Março Street. The individual research investigation was my master’s project and intended to understand processes related to recent migration flow of Chinese sellers to the city of São Paulo. The research uses ethnography, interviews and analysis of official and unofficial documents to make sense of how relational networks foster global fluxes of people and goods, for the purpose of understanding the nature of the so-called “informal market” in a globalized era. It resulted in a master’s thesis entitled A Story of Globalization as Told by 25 de Março Street: Chinese Migrants and “Informal” Commerce. 2008 - 2009 University of São Paulo (USP) | Institute of International Relations | São Paulo, Brazil Regional Collective Security Regimes: A Comparative Approach in International Regimes Theory. This individual research focused on two regional security organizations: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). From a constructivist approach it addressed the topic of regional security organizations in order to understand how collective security, originally expected to emerge only in a global context, became predominant in regional regimes. It resulted in the awarded BA thesis entitled Regional Collective Security Regimes: The case of Shanghai Cooperation Organization. 2007 - 2008 Social Observatory Institute (IOS) | São Paulo, Brazil Socio-Economic Impacts of China-Brazil Trade. The research had the goal to collect and analyze bilateral trade data, as well as productivity and employment data about the Brazilian industrial sectors most affected by Chinese competition. The purpose of the multivariate analysis was to understand better contemporary work patterns in order to recommend strategic actions for Brazilian and other countries’ unions and to orient public policies. It resulted in the theoretically-inspired and empirically-grounded policy memo Brazilian Economy after Chinese Growth: Sectorial Analysis of Trade Patterns, Employment Impacts and New Business Strategies. 2007 - 2008 Conectas Human Rights (CDH) | São Paulo, Brazil Monitoring Brazil’s Foreign Policy at the United Nations on Human Rights Matters. This collective research was part of a Foreign Policy Monitoring and Human Rights Project developed under the auspices of Conectas Human Rights. It aimed to monitoring Brazilian foreign policy in Human Rights forums of the United Nations with the view to publicize aspects of foreign policy. Votes, speeches, proposals and rapporteurs’ records were analyzed to make sense of the role of Brazilian delegation in the transition from the United Nations Human Rights Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The project had support of the Brazilian Committee for Human Rights and Foreign Policy. It resulted in the publication of the co-authored book Human Rights Annuary: 2007. Publications Articles in peer-reviewed journals: Piza, Douglas de T. 2012. “Um Palpite Sobre a Imigração nas Ciências Sociais de São Paulo: Três Décadas, Duas Perspectivas e Uma Cisão.” Plural, v.19: 33-47. Piza, Douglas de T. 2012. “Ressignificando Identidades na Tríplice Fronteira: Diálogo Cristão-Muçulmano e Questões Sociais e Políticas.” Ponto.Urbe, v.6: 18-20. Chapters: Piza, Douglas de T. 2013. “Chineses no Brasil e Diásporas Chinesas.” Pp. 197-200 in China: Passado e presente edited by R Pinheiro-Machado. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Artes e Ofícios. Works in Progress: Piza, Douglas de T. 2015. “Untying Ethnicity: Chinese Sellers in Downtown São Paulo.” Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Works-in-Progress Series. Reports: Nader, Lucia, Camila Asano, Douglas de T. Piza, Juliana Bigatao, Felipe Estre, Bárbara Pagotto and Geraldo Alves. 2008. Direitos Humanos: O Brasil na ONU (Anuário 2007). São Paulo, Brazil. Paper Presentation in Congresses (since admission at the PhD program; full list available upon request) 2015 (upcoming). 12th Congress of SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore), Zagreb, Croatia. 2015. “Untying Ethnicity: Chinese Sellers in downtown São Paulo.” The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Works-in-Progress Series, The New School, NY. 2015. “Locating Globalization: Territorialized Practices of Chinese Sellers in São Paulo.” Ethnography of Movement and Mobility Research Cluster, The New School, NY. 2015. “Desired Globalization: Governing the flow of people and products.” NYU Sociology Student Conference, New York University, NY. 2015. “Chinese Sellers: a story of globalization as told by an informal market in downtown São Paulo” presented at the NYU Ethnography Workshop, NY. 2015. “Chinese Sellers: a story of globalization as told by an informal market in downtown São Paulo.” Global Colloquium at The New School, NY. 2015. “Beyond Ethnic Ties: Chinese Sellers in São Paulo”. Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, NY. 2015. “Untying Ethnicity.” NSSR Sociology Student Conference, The New School, NY. 2014. “The Making of Post-National Spaces: Commerce and International Migration in a Market of the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay Tri-Border Area” presented at the Graduate Conference on Latin America at the Observatory of Latin America, The New School, NY. 2014. “Chinese Sellers: a story of globalization as told by an informal market in downtown São Paulo” presented at the Graduate Student Conference of the Immigration Working Group New Directions in Immigration: Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives, City University of New York, NY. 2014. “The Making of Post-National Spaces: Commerce and International Migration in a Market of the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay Tri-Border Area” presented at the Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, Germany. 2014. “Migration and Globalization from Below: Chinese Sellers in São Paulo” presented at the Urban Sessions at The New School, NY. Papers Published in Congress Annals 1. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2013. “A construção de um espaço pós-nacional: chineses e libaneses na Tríplice Fronteira”. In: X Reunión de Antropologia del MERCOSUR, Córdoba, AR. 2. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2012. “Capitalismo com características chinesas: gestão dos fluxos populacionais e modos de espacialização do Estado”. In: XXVIII Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia, São Paulo, BR. 3. Piza, Douglas de Toledo, Danillo Alarcon, Amani Sleiman, Amira Rahal, Bruno Vinicius do Nascimento Oliveira, Dominique Gentil, and Fernanda Ferreira Chan. 2012. “Sobre causas e consequências: notas sobre a história da presença libanesa em Foz do Iguaçu”. In: X Seminário de Ciências Sociais, Maringá, BR. 4. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2011. “Chineses em São Paulo: Multiplicidade de tipos de migrantes no comércio da região da Rua 25 de Março”. In: VI Encontro de Pós-graduandos da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, São Paulo, BR. 5. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2011. “New technologies and ties: Networks and mobility of Chinese products and persons at São Paulo”. In: 10th Congress of SIEF (Société Internationale  d’Ethnologie et de Folklore), Lisboa, PT. 6. Piza, Douglas de Toledo and Renata Barreto Preturlan. 2011. “Trabalho, conflito e estratégias de migrantes: ambulantes bolivianos e chineses em São Paulo”. In: XV Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia, Curitiba, BR. 7. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2010. “Consumo em um mercado ‘informal’: três modalidades e uma lógica”. In: I Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Estudos do Consumo e V Encontro Nacional de Estudos do Consumo, Rio de Janeiro, BR. 8. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2010. “Por uma rede melhor (e pior): olhar crítico ao uso de redes sociais na sociologia econômica das imigrações”. In: III Simpósio de Pós-Graduandos em Sociologia USP, UNESP, UNICAMP, UFSCar, UFRJ e UFPR, São Paulo, BR. 9. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2010. “Um palpite sobre a imigração nas ciências sociais de São Paulo: três décadas, duas perspectivas e uma cisão”. In: V Encontro de Pós-graduandos da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, São Paulo, BR. 10. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2009. “Regimes de segurança coletiva regionais: o caso da Organização de Cooperação de Shanghai”. In: XVII Simpósio Internacional de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo (SIICUSP), São Paulo, BR. 11. Piza, Douglas de Toledo. 2008. “Análise setorial dos impactos da ascensão chinesa sobre a economia brasileira”. In: XIV Encuentro de Estudiantes e Graduados en Relaciones Internacionales del Cono Sur, Ribeirão Preto, BR. Academic Supervision Presidency of B.A. senior thesis committees (advisor) 1. Ana C. de Oliveira; Bruno V. de Oliveira; Felipe Grapiglia. Terrorismo e Tríplice Fronteira: A construção de um discurso? 2012. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 2. Caroline Andreola; Isabel Louzada. O Brasil na Governança Global: o caso MINUSTAH. 2012. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 3. Marcella Palandi de Souza. Mecanismos chineses para o fortalecimento comercial e o caso dos importadores de Cidade de Leste. 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 4. Rodrigo Solagna Portillo. A morte de um império: o fim do sistema soviético e seus impactos na Revolução do Veludo. 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 5. Rafael Eduardo de Campos Menegasso. Influência Chinesa na África: o caso Sudanês. 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. Participation in B.A. senior thesis committees (second reader) 1. Leila Yatim. A Educação para Todos na Visão de Poucos: de Jomtien a Dakar, 2012. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 2. Felipe Salatino, Flavio Henrique Segatto and Saade Marraui. A Hegemonia dos Estados Unidos e a Criação da Organização Mundial do Comércio: uma análise neogramsciana, 2012. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 3. Thesis by Gleika Moroginski and Lucas Sena Dembogurski. O papel chines na Africa: investimento comercial em Angola, 2012. 2012. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 4. Meyre Ane Aparecida da Silva Ritter. Estratégia Nacional de defesa: uma análise sobre o papel das Forças Armadas, 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 5. Amani Rafic Sleiman. Entre o terrorismo e a religião: uma análise comparativa do conceito de Jihad, 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 6. Mohamad Hatem Younes. A atuação do conselho de segurança da ONU na resolução de litígios: o caso do Iraque, 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 7. Isabela Garcia André and Deivid Peter de Suza. O incentivo à internacionalização de empresas brasileiras durante o Governo Lula: um estudo de caso d Grupo JBS-Friboi, 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. 8. Rocio Tamara Samaniego Garicoche. O neoliberalismo e a abertura econômica do Brasil no Governo Collor, 2013. International Relations, Anglo-Americano College. Awards and Certificates 2015 The Janey Program in Latin American Studies Fellowship. 2015 CAPES-LASPAU Fellowship. 2015 New School for Social Research/Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences Fellowship. 2014 CAPES-LASPAU Fellowship. 2014 Honorable Mention for paper presentation at the Observatory of Latin America Conference at The New School. 2013 The New School for Social Research President’s Scholarship. 2012 Best thesis defended at the Sociology Department of the University of São Paulo. 2011 Diplôme d´études en Langue Française (B2), Ministère de l´Éducation Nacionale – France. 2011 São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholarship. 2010 São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholarship. 2009 Honorable Mention for research presentation at the XVII International Symposium of Undergraduate Research at the University of São Paulo, Dean of Research at the University of São Paulo (USP). 2008 National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) scholarship. 2008 Diplôme d´études en Langue Française (A2), Ministère de l´Éducation Nacionale – France. 2007 Diploma de español como Lengua Extranjera (Superior), Universidad de Salamanca – España. 2005 Diploma de español comol Lengua Extranjera (Intermediario), Universidad de Salamanca – España. 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