The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth departments of Sociology/Anthropology/Crime and Justice Studies and Portuguese, and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announce the historic appointment of two new tenure-track faculty in the area of Portuguese-American studies: Prof. Maria da Gloria de Sá, who earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University with a dissertation on the Portuguese-American experience, will become Faculty Director of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives; Prof. Christopher Larkosh, with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley, an outstanding scholar in the Humanities, will specialize in comparative literary, cultural and ethnic studies, and translation.

Professors de Sa and Larkosh, who officially assume their appointments in September 2007, will help advance and solidify the nascent program in Portuguese-American Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  In addition, they will contribute to the new doctoral program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory as well as to publications of the Center such as the Portuguese in the Americas Series.  Both appointments follow the establishment of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives in 2005 and the University's commitment to renovate the library in order to provide a permanent home for the Archives. 

Prof. Maria da Gloria de Sá

Prof. Christopher Larkosh