ANTI-RACISM LAB

Tavares holds a degree in social sciences, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Brasília when he obtained a Ford Foundation's International Fellowship Program IFP. Tavares was a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley in Ethnic Studies subsidized by the Fulbright Commission—currently, an associate professor at the University of Brasília, Campus Ceilândia, on Public Health. The researcher is a member of the Development Society and International Cooperation Graduate Program- PPGDSCI. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Quilmes Argentina, through the Santander Young Researcher Program in 2016. He conducted post-doctoral research on race relations and homeless youth at Leeds Becket University - United Kingdom 2018 when he became a member of the postgraduate program: Race, Education and Decolonial Thought. In addition, he is a member of the Anti-Racism/Decolonization research network based at the University of Alberta in Canada. Professor Tavares was a visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha- South Africa in 2022 supported by the Ford Foundation IFP Alumni Awards. He is the leader of the research group Sociability and Health in Urban Peripheries at UnB\CNPq, which develops research with an interdisciplinary emphasis in the fields of collective health, qualitative methodologies, urban sociology, sociology of youth and sociology of racial relations and the health of Black students in higher education. The researcher is also a member of the Metropolis Observatory in  Brasília.