Bio
I am currently a Research Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at nyuad.
My research focuses on the interplay between Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and how societies produce, negotiate and dispute their collective memories of past authoritarian regimes, with a recent emphasis on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and amnesty laws in the Global South.
I approach these themes using different methodologies, including comparative politics, extensive interviews with past and present state actors, stakeholders and activists, archival research, and international fieldwork (South Africa, East Timor, Argentina, Northern Ireland). In addition, I have pursued extensive fieldwork in my home country of Brazil.
My research has been variously funded by the Research Foundation of Rio de Janeiro (faperj), the capes foundation (Brazil) and the Ford Foundation.
Education
2007, PhD in Political Science, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (iuperj).
2003, MA in Political Science, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (iuperj).
2000, BA in Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ufrj).
Employment
2019 - present: Research Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, nyuad
2015 - 2022: Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure), iesp, uerj
2011 - 2015: Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure), ufrj
2008 - 2011: Assistant Professor of Political Science (tenure-track), ufrj
Published Books
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2011. Teoria das elites [Elite Theory]. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2009. Modos de Representação Política: O Experimento da Primeira República Brasileira [Different means of political representation: The Brazilian experiment in the First Republic]. Rio de Janeiro: Federal University of Minas Gerais Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2005. Polícia e Direitos Humanos: Política de Segurança Pública no Primeiro Governo Brizola (1983-1986) [Police and human rights: The public security policies in the first Brizola government (1983-1986)]. Rio de Janeiro: Revan.
Edited Books
Biroli, Flávia, Luciana Tatagiba, Carla Almeida, Cristina B. de Hollanda, and Vanessa de Oliveira, eds. 2020. Mulheres, Poder e Ciência Política [Women, Power and Political Science]. Campinas: University of Campinas Press.
Stampa, Inez, San R. Assumpção, and Cristina B. de Hollanda, eds. 2020. Arquivos, Democracia e Ditadura: Reflexões a Partir dos 10 Anos do Centro de Referência Memórias Reveladas do Arquivo Nacional [Archives, democracy and dictatorship: reflexions from the Reference Center Revealed Memories of the National Archive’s]. Curitiba: Appris.
Aguiar, Thaís, Cristina B. de Hollanda, and Pedro H. V. B. Castelo Branco, eds. 2019. Cesar Guimarães: uma Antologia de Textos Políticos [Cesar Guimarães: an anthology of political texts]. Curitiba: Appris.
Hollanda, Cristina B., Luciana F. Veiga, and Oswaldo E. do Amaral, eds. 2018.A Constituição de 1988: Trinta Anos Depois [The 1988 Constitution: Thirty years later]. Rio de Janeiro: Federal University of Paraná Press and Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2011. Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil: Uma Antologia Política [Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil: A political anthology]. Rio de Janeiro: Editora 7Letras.
Lessa, Renato, and Cristina B. de Hollanda, eds. 2009. San Tiago Dantas: Coletânea de textos sobre Política Externa [San Tiago Dantas: Writings on Foreign Policy]. Brasília: Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation Press.
Selected Articles
Hollanda, Cristina B., Costa da Silva, Danielle, Braga, Pablo S., Milani, Carlos R. S. 2023. From human rights to “righteous humans”: Brazilian foreign policy in the Bolsonaro era. Journal of Human Rights, doi: 10.1080/14754835.2023.2276420
Hollanda, Cristina B., and Hun Joon Kim. 2023. “Commissionism”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B., and San R. Assumpção. 2023. “Brazilian National Truth Commission”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2023. “Truth Commission of the State of Rio de Janeiro”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2023. “Rubens Paiva Truth Commission of the State of São Paulo”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2023. “Dom Helder Câmara Memory and Truth Commission of the State of Pernambuco”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2023. “East Timor”. In Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2022. “De la (ré)conciliation: trajectoire d’un imaginaire politique dans le Brésil contemporain (1974-2020)”. [On (re)conciliation: trajectory of a contemporary political imaginary in contemporary Brazil (1974-2020)]. Brésil(s) 21. doi: 10.4000/bresils.12470
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2020. “Comisiones de la Verdad en Brasil. Una nueva modalidad de movimiento social?” [Truth Commissions in Brazil: a New Kind of Social Movement?]. In Protestas, Acción Colectiva y Ciudadanía. Volumen II [Protests, Collective Action and Citizenship, Volume II], eds. Rosa Ynés Alacio García, and Jesús Alberto Rodriguez Alonso. Chihuahua, México: Editorial V.I.T.R.I.O.L., v. II.
Hollanda, Cristina B., Vinícius Israel. 2020. “Panorama das Comissões da Verdade no Brasil: uma Reflexão Sobre Novos Sentidos de Legitimidade e Representação Democrática” [Panorama of Truth Commissions in Brazil: a reflection on new senses of legitimacy and democratic representation]. Revista de Sociologia e Política, 27: 1-21. doi: 10.1590/1678-987319277006
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2019. “Brazilian Truth Commissions as Experiments of Representation: Between Impartiality and Proximity”. Representation 55 (3): 323-37. doi: 10.1080/00344893.2018.1424029
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2018. “Direitos Humanos e Democracia: a Experiência das Comissões Nacional e Estaduais da Verdade no Brasil” [Human rights and democracy: The experience of the National and State-level Truth Commissions in Brazil]. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 33 (96): 1-18. doi: 10.17666/339610/2018
Hollanda, Cristina B. 2013. “Human Rights and Political Transition in South Africa: The Case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”. Brazilian Political Science Review 7∶8-30.
