Pedro Meira Monteiro joined Princeton’s faculty in 2002, after an academic training in Brazil and France. He is the author of A queda do aventureiro (Campinas UP, 1999), and Um moralista nos trópicos (Boitempo, 2004). He is the co-editor of Andrés Di Tella: cine documental y archivo personal (Siglo XXI Iberoamericana, 2006, with Paul Firbas), and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda: perspectivas (Campinas UP and UERJ UP, 2008, with João Kennedy Eugênio). He is the editor of Alfredo Bosi’s Colony, Cult and Culture (UMass-Dartmouth’s Luso-Asio-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory Series, 2008). He’s currently working on a manuscript on the presence of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Raízes do Brasil in the imaginary of contemporary Brazil. With Michael Stone, he is co-editing a book tentatively titled Language Like an Iron: Brazilian Jongo Slave Chants and the Sonic Archaeology of Diaspora, on the recordings of slave chants Stanley and Barbara Stein made in Brazil in the 1940s.