Members of the Executive Committee

Elisa Reis BRAZIL

Professor of Political Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and chair of the ISA Research Committee on Sociological Theory. Her long experience in scientific institutions include: invited member of the Program Committee for the ISA World Congress of 2002; President of the Brazilian National Association for the Social Sciences, 1996-8; Member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association, 1988-91 and 1992-95; Secretary of the Brazilian Sociological Association, 1987-89. Inside both the Brazilian Academy of Science and the University she has actively sought to strengthen the ties between the social sciences and other scientific areas. Reis is one of the five members of the Permanent Commission for Advanced Studies at the University. She seats on the board of the National Research Council for Science and Technology as representative of the academic community. Her research activities have covered theoretical and empirical issues. She chairs the Research Network on Social Inequality in Brazil, and is Vice-President of the Comparative Research on Poverty based in Bergen, Norway. She has published extensively in Brazil and abroad and seats on editorial boards of several national and international periodicals. Her latest publication in English is Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality (Zed Books, 2005) co-edited with Mick Moore, which summarizes the results of a collective study in five countries. Other recent publications in English include The Long Lasting Marriage between State and Nation, IPSR, 25, 3, 2004 and Inequality in Brazil: Facts and Perceptionsin G. Therborn (ed.) Inequalities of the World, Verso (forthcoming).

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