Directors
Esther da Costa Meyer is an associate professor in art history in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in modern and contemporary architecture. Her published works explore the interface between architecture and the other visual arts— painting, film, literature, and music, and her essays have appeared in Assemblage, Modernism/Modernity, New German Critique, Harvard Design Magazine, and Artforum.
Antonio Sergio Guimarães is a professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo. Guimarães received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He specializes in Afro-Brazilian studies; conducts research on racial, national, and class identities, black social movements, affirmative action, and black intellectuals; and publishes regularly in both Portuguese and English on these issues.