Ana Luiza Morais Soares

Postdoctoral Fellow Collaborative Humanities/Department of Anthropology

Ana Luiza Morais Soares holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. As a historical anthropologist, her forthcoming book, Kunhãtãi Nation: Indigenous Child Separation, Orphanhood, and Domestic Work in the Amazon analyzes the history of Indigenous child separation and labor exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon and its impact on identity erasure in the country. Currently, she is examining how contemporary Indigenous communities are leveraging social media to counter and redress historical erasure, asserting and reclaiming their identities in cyberspace.