Richard Miskolci

Who is Richard Miskolci?

Richard Miskolci is a Brazilian sociologist whose work articulates Social Science's tradition with Subaltern Knowledges. He is an Associate Professor at the Department and the Graduate Program in Sociology at UFSCar, Brazil. Miskolci is the leader of a Research Group and also a researcher at Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu.

He initiated his career dealing with Critical Theory, but the contact with the works of Michel Foucault, the post-Lacanians and Cultural Studies marked his formation. Miskolci received his PhD in Sociology from University of São Paulo in 2001, but during the end of the 1990s he has researched in Germany and he was as a Student-at-Large in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He got tenure as a Professor of Sociology at UFSCar in 2004. During the last years, Miskolci has contributed to popularize Queer Theory in the Brazilian academic field in a dialogue with its own tradition of sexuality studies, especially those created under the influence of Nestor Perlongher's work. In 2007, Miskolci has edited the first Brazilian compilation of Queer Studies. "Dissent Sexualities" received the Award Citizenship in Respect to Diversity.