Institution:
Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Interests:
Immigration and mobility; transnational parenting and family life across borders; gender; anthropology and education; educational trajectories of immigrant and first- and second-generation children; Brazilian migration; bilingual and dual-language education in the Americas

Description:
Gabrielle Oliveira is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies at HGSE, where her research examines how people move, adapt, and parent across borders, merging anthropology and education through multi-sited ethnographic work in Mexico, the United States, and Brazil. She is the author of Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York (NYU Press, 2018), an award‑winning ethnography of Mexican transnational mothers and their children, and her broader scholarship explores the schooling experiences of immigrant children, families’ educational decision‑making during and after migration, and Brazilian immigrant communities navigating U.S. schools and dual‑language programs.