Areas of Interest: Gender and sexuality in Latin America; U.S.-Latin American relations; contemporary Brazilian history.
Projects: A History of the Brazilian Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Movement; Popular Culture and Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1920; Life, Politics, and Culture during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985; Brazilian Immigrants in the United States.
James N. Green is associate professor of Brazilian history and culture. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled "We Cannot Remain Silent": Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85. He is also editing the English-language version of Lina Penna Sattamini's memoir, A Mother's Cry: A Personal Account of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. Green is the immediate past president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), chair of the Committee on the Future of Brazilian Studies in the United States, and a member of the Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association. He is the author of the prize-winning social history Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999), published in Brazil as Além do carnaval: a homossexualidade masculina no Brasil do século XX (UNESP 2000). Green is a member of the editorial boards of Latin American Perspectives and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe.
Other publications include: "(Homo)sexuality, Human Rights, and Revolution in Latin America"; "The Emperor's Pedestal: Dom Pedro I and Notions of the Brazilian Nation in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro"; "Madame Satan, the Black ‘Queen' of Brazilian Bohemia"; "Clergy, Exiles, and Academics: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-1974."