To: CAPES Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel

This letter is to confirm that Fabio Santiago Nascimento, a visiting scholar at the Department of
Sociology and the Center for the Study on Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, has
completed all the activities assigned to him under my supervision during his stay abroad. Some of the
activities developed by the scholar at the center include: an open seminar about his own research -
Discourses of masculinity and same-sex desire in Brazil, delivered on May 5 th, 2014, as part of the
Seminar Series, offered monthly by the center, review of manuscripts submitted for publication in the
journal Men and Masculinities, in which I am a current editor. Other general activities carried out by
Fabio during the period include his participation as an auditor in the course Advanced Analytic and
Argumentative Writing, ministered by Prof. Robert Kaplan, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony
Brook University, Winter term, 2014, and three individual paper presentations at the following
conferences:
Conference: Bonds Graduate Program in English
Presentation Title: Masculinity and Neoliberalism: Implications for social and linguistic research
Venue: Stony Brook Manhattan, New York
Date: 03/01/2014
Conference: Discourse, gender and sexuality: South-south dialogues
Presentation Title: Masculinity and same-sex desire in Brazil
Venue: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: 11/18/2013
Conference: 21st Lavender Languages
Presentation: Intersecting masculinity, same-sex desire and race in Brazil
Venue: American University, Washington, DC
Date: 02/16/2014
If you have any other inquiry, please feel free to contact me.

Michael Kimmel
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities
Department of Sociology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
phone: 631-632-7708

FAX: 631-632-8203

email:michael_kimmel@yahoo.com
website: www.michaelkimmel.com

Letter to CAPES (with university stamp) including a statement confirming

that the student has completed all the activities required during his period
abroad + a description of his activities.

Review of manuscripts submitted for publication at the journal Men and

Masculinities

Seminar about his research Discourses of masculinity and same-sex desire

in Brazil at the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, Stony Brook
University, on May, 05th , 2014.

Audited the course Advanced Analytic and Argumentative Writing,

ministered by Prof. Robert Kaplan, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony
Brook University, Winter term, 2014.

Conference: Bonds Graduate Program in English

Presentation Title: Masculinity and Neoliberalism: Implications for social and

Linguistic Research
Venue: Stony Brook Manhattan, New York
Date: 03/01/2014

Conference: Discourse, gender and sexuality: South-south dialogues

Presentation Title: Masculinity and same-sex desire in Brazil
Venue: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: 11/18/2013

Conference: 21st Lavender Languages

Presentation: Intersecting masculinity, same-sex desire and race in Brazil
Venue: American University, Washington, DC
Date: 02/16/2014