Sales Augusto dos Santos

Sales Augusto dos Santos holds a dual academic appointment as Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Brazil's Federal University of Viçosa and Senior Research Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of African & African Diaspora Studies, following doctoral training in Sociology at the University of Brasília and postdoctoral research in Africana Studies at Brown University.

His educational credentials include:

• Doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília (UnB)
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Africana Studies from Brown University

Dr. dos Santos's research critically investigates systemic inequities in higher education through the intersecting lenses of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class. His scholarship documents institutional racism via analyses of Brazil's pioneering racial quota system and exposes multidimensional campus violence targeting marginalized student populations, positioning him at the forefront of decolonial educational research in Latin America.