Maxine L. Margolis

Maxine L. Margolis is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Florida and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Latin American Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Dr. Margolis, a native of New York City, who earned her PhD in anthropology at Columbia University, is the author or editor of eight books including Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why they Changed (University of California Press, 1984), Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City (Princeton University Press 1994), True to Her Nature: Changing Advice to American Women (Waveland 2000) and An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City (revised 2nd edition, University Press of Florida 2009). Her most recent book, Goodbye, Brazil: Emigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba, which focuses on the Brazilian diaspora worldwide, will be published later this year by the University of Wisconsin Press.