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Background

Drawing from her experience as a Black woman from Brazil and an immigrant in the USA, Juliana Góes's work encompasses the Black Radical Tradition, Black feminism and womanism, racial capitalism, abolitionism, decolonial praxis, urban spaces/territories of resistance, and ways to build another world. Her commitment to these areas is reflected in her extensive collaboration with grassroots movements and her ongoing efforts to integrate academic scholarship with community-engaged practice. She has active collaborations with Black organizations, sex workers' groups, urban occupations (territories occupied by people who cannot afford rent and/or self-built neighborhoods), and anti-prison movements. 

Currently, she is working on two book projects. The first, titled Decolonizing Cities: Black Movements and Territories of Life in Brazil, examines the intersections between Black movements in Latin America, self-determination, and urban politics. The second book, Du Bois on Latin America and the Caribbean: Trans-American Pan-Africanism and Global Sociology, co-authored with Agustin Lao-Montes and Jorge Vasquez, delves into Black internationalism across the Americas.

Select Publications

• GÓES, Juliana. "Western Modernity, Cities, and Race: Challenges to Decolonial Praxis in the African Diaspora in the Americas. " Sociology Compass, v. 16, n. 10, e13033. 2022. 
• GÓES, Juliana. "Reflections on Colorism and Pigmentocracy." REVES - Revista Relações Sociais, v. 5, n. 4, 14741–01i (in Portuguese, with English abstract). 2022. 
• GÓES, Juliana. "Du Bois and Brazil: Reflections on Black Transnationalism and African Diaspora." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, pp. 1-16. 2021. 
• GÓES, Juliana and LAO-MONTES, Agustin. “Nuestra Améfrica en Clave dos Feminismos Pretos: El Imaginario Geo-Historico de Lélia Gonzalez.” [Our Améfrica is Key to Black Feminisms: The Geo-Historical Imaginary of Lélia Gonzalez]. LASA Forum, v. 50, n. 3, pp. 50-54 (in Portuguese and Spanish), 2019. 
• GÓES, Juliana. "Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Prostitution." Caderno Espaço Feminino, v. 31, n. 1. pp. 119-146 (in Portuguese, with English abstract). 2018. 
  
  

Education

• PhD, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; certificate in African Diaspora Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies; certificate in Latin American Studies: Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, 2023.
• MA, Sociology: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2022.
• MA, Political Science: Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), 2017.
• BA, Political Science: University of Brasília (Brazil), 2015

Research Interests

• Race and racism
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Social movements
• Decolonial theory
• Gender and sexuality
• Global sociology
• Urban sociology

Awards

• Manuel Matos Public Sociology Award, Department of Sociology, UMass Amherst, 2022.
• The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council, 2021.