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Maria-Fátima Santos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examining legal and penal state power dynamics, social exclusion mechanisms, and state transformation processes with a focus on Brazil's penal courts and carceral systems.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley (2024)
Research Focus: Her work integrates General Social Theory, Political Sociology, and Law and Society to investigate how public defenders navigate inequality and racialized violence, while analyzing carceral administration's role in political legitimacy. Current projects explore legal aid professions and state-citizen conflicts through ethnographic and institutional lenses.
Affiliations:
- Center for Law, Society & Justice
Her publication trends reveal a concentrated scholarly trajectory bridging political sociology with Latin American criminology, emphasizing state power evolution and racialized social control. No scientific awards, advising records, or grant details were documented in the source material.
