James N. Green

James N. Green is Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University, where he currently directs the Opening the Archives Project. He received his BA from Earlham College and PhD in Latin American history from the University of California, Los Angeles. Green has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and spent over a decade in Brazil, where he worked as an advisor for the Brazilian National Truth Commission to investigate the state’s human rights violations during the military dictatorship (1964-85). His books include Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary (Duke, 2018), We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States (Duke, 2010), and Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chicago, 1999), as well as several co-edited volumes. He is the former director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazil Initiative at Brown University and the New England Council on Latin American Studies. He is the current National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the president of the board of directors of the Washington Brazil Office. Green’s work has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment of the Humanities, among others.