African and African Diaspora Studies

A man with black thin circular glasses and a salt-and-pepper beard smiles while sitting with one leg crossed. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt under a deep dark blue blazer and beige slacks, sitting in front of a bookshelf.

Marcelo Paixao

Current Fellow
African and African Diaspora Studies
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College of Liberal Arts

Marcelo Paixão is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a faculty at the African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS), in conjunction with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Prof. Marcelo is a Brazilian economist and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (IUPERJ, Brazil). Before coming to Austin, he has been a Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for 16 years, the same place where he majored.

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