Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor of comparative communications in the School of Communications at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She also serves as a contributing editor of Public Culture, a scholarly journal published by Duke University Press. Jaguaribe has written on race and visual culture in contemporary Brazil. Among her publications are Fins de Século: Cidade e Cultura no Rio de Janeiro (1998), published by Rocco, and Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro (2001), published by Sextante Artes. Jaguaribe works on the relationship between artistic production and lived experiences in the production of cultural maps of urban Brazil. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.
