Mariana Fix, a professor at the Institute of Economics UNICAMP and author of Partners in Exclusion (2001) and Sao Paulo Global City (2007) will present a guest lecture: "Financialization of Home and City: From the United States to Brazil."

Fix won the 2012 award for best Ph.D. thesis in economics from the Brazilian Coordinating Institute for the Development of Higher-education Professionals. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Campinas, and a master's degree in sociology and a B.S. in architecture and urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo.

Currently, Fix is an Urban Studies Foundation Fellow and visiting scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.

Location:	1021 Prince Street, Room 304, Alexandria, VA, 22314; polycom to Blacksburg, Architecture Annex, 200
Contact:	Giselle Datz gdatz@vt.edu
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