Meg Weeks

Meg Weeks is a historian, writer, and translator joining the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies as an Assistant Professor in spring 2024. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Latin America, particularly gender, labor, reproductive rights, and sexuality in Brazil. She earned her BA from Brown University (2011) and MA/PhD from Harvard University with a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

• PhD in History, Harvard University
• MA in History, Harvard University
• BA in History, Brown University

Her first book, From the House to the Street, examines Brazilian sex workers' and domestic laborers' roles in post-military dictatorship democratization, highlighting their intersectional critiques of racism, classism, and misogyny. She also co-edits an annotated translation of Brazilian sex-worker activist Gabriela Leite’s memoir, slated for publication by Duke University Press in late 2024.

Currently, Weeks supervises a multiyear archival project funded by two grants from UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program, dedicated to organizing and digitizing Brazil’s National Federation of Domestic Workers’ holdings. Her academic work appears in Journal of the History of Sexuality and Philia, while her non-academic writing spans feminism, art, and literature in outlets like n+1, New York Review of Books, and Artforum.