Rafael de la Dehesa joined the fulltime faculty of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the College of Staten Island in 2004 after completing his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. He is also a member of the doctoral faculty of the Sociology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research has focused on queer and feminist activisms in Latin America; the politics of population control and contraception; transnational social movements; and globalization. His first book Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (Duke University Press, 2010) was nominated for the 2010 Lambda Award in LGBT Studies. He also co-authored/co-edited the two-volume Sexuality and Politics: Regional Dialogues from the Global South, published by Sexuality Policy Watch (2014). His work has been published in various journals, including Feminist Studies; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society; Scholar & Feminist Online; Global Public Health; Ethnic and Racial Studies; the Latin American Research Review; and Contemporary Politics. His current research focuses on the role of the state, national social movements and transnational policy networks in reproductive politics and governance in Brazil.
Degrees
BA, University of Texas
MA, Brown University
MA, Johns Hopkins University
PhD, Harvard University
Professor de la Dehesa has presented his work at a number of conferences both in the United States and in Latin America. In addition to several articles, he is the author of the forthcoming book Sexual Modernities: Queering the Public Sphere in Latin America. This work explores how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer activists in Brazil and Mexico have articulated linkages with the state, particularly in alliance with political parties.
