Lemann Institute
People
Staff
Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning , Director Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
- Room 300, ISB
- Phone: (217)333-2724
- E-mail: marends@illinois.edu
Mary Arends-Kuenning is Interim Director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include children's schooling and child labor, household consumption, and international migration. She began doing research on Brazil in 1992 as part of her dissertation at the University of Michigan. Her work on Brazil has been published in World Development, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and as book chapters. This work is often cited in World Bank and United Nations publications and by researchers.
Program Coordinator Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
- Room 207, ISB
- Phone: (217) (217)333-8248
- E-mail:
Starting the Academic Yerar 2011-12, the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), is moving its Executive Secretariat to the University of Illinois.
