I am a doctoral candidate in the History Department, focusing on Gender and Latin America. My research interests are broad, but mostly concentrated on the history of suffrage in Brazil, the UN San Francisco Conference of 1945, and women’s movements in Latin America (1920s-1970s). My current research examines the rise of two right-wing political waves in twentieth-century Brazil: one in the 1930s, and the other in the 1960s. This project explores the extent to which ideals and cultural conceptions about womanhood in the early 1960s were politically manipulated and/or fully embraced by right-wing women in the events that led to the country’s military coup d’etat of 1964. I examine a number of right-wing women’s groups that were established nationwide in the 1960s, and how they engaged with the media outlets, politicians, religious leaders and business people. In addition, this project investigates the extent to which we can trace the discourses, and cultural and political representations of an ideal womanhood in the 1930s, when the first fascist political movement called AIB (Brazilian Integralist Action) emerged in the country. With the support of CLACLS, I will travel to Brazil to do archival research and conduct interviews.