Marilia Corrêa

Areas of Specialization

Latin America

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois
M.A., University of Illinois
B.A., Faculdades de Campinas (FACAMP-Brazil)

Academic Interests & Research Narratives

I am a historian of Modern Latin America, with an emphasis on Cold War politics. I am currently working on a book manuscript examining the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its persecution of military officers and soldiers labeled as subversives. I study how military regimes regulate and restructure sectors not traditionally associated with political or social dissent and explore how the traumas the dictatorship inflicted onto expelled servicemen altered their sense of belonging in ways that transcended the era of dictatorship itself.

Selected Publications

Books

Reclaiming Military Identity During and After the Brazilian Dictatorship, under contract, UNC Press.

Book Chapters

““Subversão” nas forças armadas: perseguição militar, ditadura, e o arquivo,” in Registros dos autoritarismos: pesquisas sobre arquivos inéditos das ditaduras no Brasil e na América Latina, Fabio Lanza, José Wilson Assis Neves Jr, and Marina Adams (eds.), (Salvador: Sagga Editora, 2024).

Articles

"Amnesty and the Limits of Transitional Justice in Brazil: The Case of Expelled Low-Ranking Soldiers, 1964-2014," American Journal of Legal History, vol. 62, issue 2 (June 2022): 182-205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njac005.

"Military Resistance to the Brazilian Coup: The Fight of Officers and Soldiers Against Authoritarian Rule, 1964-67," The Americas 77, no. 2 (April 2020): 275-300. doi:10.1017/tam.2019.112

Regular Course Offerings

• Undergraduate:
  • HIS 1300 | US in Global Perspective - US-Latin American Relations
  • HIS 3355 | Modern Latin America
  • HIS 4340 | Latin America’s Cold War 

Other Courses Taught

• Undergraduate:
  • HIS 4317: Capstone in Global History
• Graduate:
  • HIS 5350: Graduate Seminar on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

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Twitter: @mariliacorrea8