Rate My Professor Sean Mitchell

Mitchell's scholarly contributions include the monograph Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which received the 2018 Sergio Buarque de Holanda Social Science Book Prize from the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section. He co-edited Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil (Rutgers University Press, 2021) and Democracia Precária (Zouk, 2022). Other notable works include the co-edited volume Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and the journal issue 'Afro-Brazilian Citizenship and the Politics of History' (African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 2017). Select articles feature 'Mobility Interrupted: A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor' (Latin American Politics and Society, 2022), 'Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class' (2021), and 'Naming Brazil’s Previously Poor: New Middle Class as an Economic, Political, and Experiential Category' (Economic Anthropology, 2018), the latter awarded the 2019 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Social Science Article Prize. His work has influenced discussions on inequality, race, and politics in Latin America through prestigious recognitions and publications in leading journals.