Management Team
James N. Green
Project Director
James N. Green is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and the author or co-editor of eleven books on Brazil and Latin America. He received his doctorate in Latin American history, with a specialization in Brazil, at UCLA in 1996. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and lived more than a decade in Brazil. He served as the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University from 2005 to 2008 and the Director of the Brazil Initiative from 2012 to 2020. He is a past president (2002-04) of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and was the BRASA Executive Director from 2015 to 2020. He served as the President of the New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS) in 2008 and 2009. He is currently the Director of the Opening the Archives Project, the National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.
Marina Adams
Project Coordinator & Paris Manager
Marina Adams received her BA in History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from The College of Wooster in 2018, after transferring to the U.S. from the Fine Arts program at the University of Brasilia. Her undergraduate thesis analyzed the work of the Brazilian Women’s Movement for Amnesty and the gendered inflections of the transition to democracy after the military dictatorship. She continued to explore how gender interfaces with the political landscape in Brazil at Brown’s Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies earning an AM in 2020. Marina plans on researching Brazilian women’s political subjectivities and their interplay with the Brazilian political establishment in the twentieth century.
Deven Kamlani
Project Manager and DC Manager
Deven Kamlani is an undergraduate student at Brown University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History and East Asian Studies. His areas of focus include China and Brazil. In addition to assisting in the coordination of the Opening the Archives Project, Deven worked as a research assistant for the Democracy Observatory of the Washington Brazil Office, where he helped monitor the observance of democratic practices during the 2022 Brazilian General Elections. Supported by Brown’s History Honors Program, his current research explores the cultural forces that motivated sectors of Brazil’s leftist opposition to embrace Maoism during the military dictatorship period.
Julia Terra-Salomão
Quality Control Manager
Julia Terra-Salomão is an undergraduate at Brown University concentrating in Education Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. She initially joined the Opening the Archives team as a student project participant in the summer of 2022 and has since taken on the role of quality control manager. She is incredibly passionate about making archival spaces more accessible and hopes her work with Opening the Archives will help contribute to this goal. Her other academic interests include the Azorean diaspora, dual language programs, and the intersection of arts and language education.
