Dr Maria Paula Prates

Overview

Currently Co-Investigator Lead of the research Indigenous Peoples responding to Covid-19 in Brazil: social arrangements in a Global Health emergency, funded by MRC/UKRI and NIRH. Between 2018 - 2020, she was Newton International Fellowship, awarded by Newton Fund/ British Academy/ Royal Society, and worked in a project entitled “Health policies and sociocultural diversity: a comparative study on childbirth services”. In Brazil, since 2014, Maria Paula is Professora Adjunta in Social Anthropology at Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) and Professora in the Postagraduate Program in Social Anthropology of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). There she teaches and conduct research projects. She also leads the Reseach Group Laboratório de Alteridades. Her key interests are Ethnography, Minorities collectives, personhood, body, midwifery and health understandings.

Qualifications

1. PhD Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Brazil - France, Mar 2009 – Oct 2013
2. Master Social Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Mar 2007 – Mar 2009
3. Graduate Social Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Mar 2000 – Dec 2006

Employment

1. Professora, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Feb 2021 – present
2. Research Fellow, City, University of London, Jun 2018 – present
3. Professora Adjunta, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Jul 2014 – present

Fellowships

1. Health policies and sociocultural diversity: a comparative study on childbirth services, Newton Fund, Jun 2018 – Jun 2020

Expertise

Geographic Areas

• Americas - Latin

Current Research Project

Indigenous Peoples responding to Covid-19 in Brazil: social arrangements in a Global Health emergency (Funded by MRC/UKRI and NIRH).

Featured publications

1. Prates, M.P. (2019). Of instability and affections mbyá. Porto Alegre: UFCSPA. ISBN 978-85-92652-13-5.
2. Prates, M.P. (2019). Fluxos de uma antropologia em espaços errantes: Corpo, doença e saúde. In da Costa e Fonseca, A.C. and Leivas, P.G.C. (Eds.), Direitos Humanos e Saúde (pp. 27–45). Porto Alegre, Brazil: UFCSPA. ISBN 978-85-92652-12-8.

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