Rui Carvalho (A717-9E94-BABA)

Curriculum Vitae

Rui Carvalho

I am a sociologist (PhD, Brown University) and a geographer (BSc, NOVA University of Lisbon). Overall, my research focuses on issues of community and urban development, international migration, race and ethnicity, and social theory. My doctoral dissertation project investigated how racial (and other) inequalities shape international migration outcomes, focusing on the case study of Brazil (and Brazilians) and using several qualitative and quantitative sources and methods of social research. My present research projects examine attitudes (and opposition) towards immigrants and immigration in Europe, focusing on issues of intergroup contact and threat, and how international migration outcomes are shaped by various sources of inequality. In line with these research projects, my teaching has spanned issues of development and global social change, race and ethnicity, and social theory and research methods, often resorting to the use of community and arts (Hip-Hop) based pedagogical tools.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rui Carvalho

Citation names

Carvalho, Rui F.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: A717-9E94-BABA
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7678-2756
Google Scholar ID: n8MTSpQAAAAJ&hl

Email addresses

rui_carvalho@brown.edu (Professional)

Websites

https://sociology.brown.edu/people/rui-carvalho (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025 Concluded	Sociology (Doctor of Philosophy) Brown University, United States
2016 Concluded	Sociology (Master) Brown University, United States
2009 Concluded	Geografia e Planeamento Regional (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017 - 2018	Research Assistant (Research)	Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, United States
	Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, United States
2016 - 2016	Research Assistant (Research)	Brown University Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, United States
	Brown University Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, United States
2012 - 2014	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2009 - 2012	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
2008 - 2009	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020 - 2021	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Brown University Department of Sociology, United States
	Brown University Department of Sociology, United States
2015 - 2017	Assistant (University Teacher)	Brown University Department of Sociology, United States
	Brown University Department of Sociology, United States

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017 - 2018	The Janaagraha-Brown India Citizenship Index Study Citizenship Index Study Research Fellow Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, United States	Ford Foundation Concluded
2016 - 2016	Forest Restoration and Socioeconomic Development in the South of Bahia, Brazil IBES Bahia Research Fellow Brown University Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, United States	Concluded
2012 - 2014	Valores e Atitudes face à Mudança a favor de um Desenvolvimento Económico mais Sustentável: A Visão de Empresários, Autarcas e População (MuVE) MuVe Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Concluded
2011 - 2012	Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) THEMIS Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	NORFACE – New Opportunities for Research Funding Co-operation Agency in Europe Concluded
2009 - 2011	Generating Inter-ethnic Tolerance and Neighborhood Integration in European Urban Spaces (GEITONIES) GEITONIES Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development People Concluded
2008 - 2009	Celebração da Cultura Costeira (CCC) CCC Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	EEA Grants Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Ferrão, João; Carvalho, Rui; Ramos, Alice; Bina, Olivia; Mourato, João. Que Economia Queremos?. Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. 2014. Published M. Lucinda Fonseca; Jennifer McGarrigle; Alina Esteves; Dora Sampaio; Carvalho, Rui; Jorge Malheiros; Luis Moreno. Modes of Inter-Ethnic Coexistence in Three Neighbourhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: A Comparative Perspective. Lisboa, Portugal: Colibri. 2012. Published
Book chapter	Kajdanek, Katarzyna; Bednarczyk, Anna; Carvalho, Rui. "Crisis, Conflict and Celebration in European Cities: An Introduction". In Crisis, Conflict and Celebration: Ethnographic Studies of European Cities, 1-30. Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. Published • 10.1007/978-981-97-9719-6_1 Carvalho, Rui. "Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods". In Inequality and uncertainty: Current challenges for cities, edited by Marta Smagacz-Poziemska; Maria Victoria Gómez; Patrícia Pereira; Laura Guarino; Sebastian Kurtenbach; Juan Jose Villalon, 185-204. Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. Accepted Sampaio, Dora; Carvalho, Rui. "From the Al-Maghrib to the Al-Gharb: An anatomy of the recruitment and labour incorporation of Moroccan agricultural workers in the Algarve, Southern Portugal". In Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area, edited by Alessandra Corrado; Carlos de Castro; Domenico Perrotta, 231-246. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016. Published Mourato, João; Carvalho, Rui. "Mobilidade urbana e cidades". In Ambiente, Alterações Climáticas, Alimentação e Energia: A Opinião dos Portugueses, edited by Schmidt, Luisa; Ana Delicado, 249-268. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2014. Published
Edited book	Kajdanek, Katarzyna; Bednarczyk, Anna; Carvalho, Rui F.. Crisis, Conflict and Celebration: Ethnographic Studies of European Cities. Springer Nature Singapore. 2025. Published • 10.1007/978-981-97-9719-6 • Editor
Journal article	Sampaio, Dora; Carvalho, Rui F.. "Transnational families, care and wellbeing: The role of legal status and sibling relationships across borders". Wellbeing, Space and Society 3 (2022): 100097. Published • 10.1016/j.wss.2022.100097 Malheiros, Jorge; Carvalho, Rui; Mendes, Luis. "Gentrification, residential ethnicization and the social production of fragmented space in two multi-ethnic neighbourhoods of Lisbon and Bilbao". Finisterra 48 96 (2013): 109-135. Published • 10.18055/finis3619 Frazão Santos, Catarina; Carvalho, Rui; Andrade, Francisco. "Quantitative assessment of the differential coastal vulnerability associated to oil spills". Journal of Coastal Conservation 17 1 (2013): 25-36. Published • 10.1007/s11852-012-0215-2 Souto, Henrique; Gomes, Nuno; Carvalho, Rui. "Development of a GIS for the “Celebration of Coastal Culture”". Journal of Coastal Conservation 16 4 (2012): 431-437. Published • 10.1007/s11852-012-0188-1 Malheiros, Jorge; Carvalho, Rui; Mendes, Luis. "Etnicização residencial e nobilitação urbana marginal: Processo de ajustamento ou prática emancipatória num bairro do centro histórico de Lisboa?". Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto Special Issue (2012): 97-128. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/08	Ready to move? Examining the relationships between migration preparations, actual migration and employment outcomes in Mexico	119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)
2024/08	Intergroup contact and community cohesion in European ethnically diverse neighborhoods	119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)
2024/08	Intergroup contact and community cohesion in European ethnically diverse neighborhoods	16th European Sociological Association Conference (Porto, Portugal)
2022/10	Social cohesion in ethnically diverse and low-income European neighborhoods: The importance of interethnic ties	V Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network 37, Urban Sociology (Berlin, Germany)
2022/08	Social cohesion in ethnically diverse and low-income European neighborhoods: The importance of interethnic ties	117th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Los Angeles, United States)
2022/08	Social cohesion in ethnically diverse and low-income European neighborhoods: The importance of interethnic ties	International Sociological Association Research Committee 21, Urban and Regional Development, Conference 2022 (Athens, Greece)
2018/07	Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods	X Congresso Português de Sociologia (Covilhã, Portugal)
2018/06	Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods	III Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network 37, Urban Sociology (Madrid, Spain)
2017/08	Interethnic capital: Social capital and interethnic relations in eighteen European multiethnic neighborhoods	13th European Sociological Association Conference (Athens, Greece)
2013/09	"Do as I say, not as I do?" Analysing the potential effects of immigrants’ representations of the crisis on migration systems: Insights from a peripheral Southern European country	Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems Final Conference (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2013/07	International migration in rural Europe in a context of crisis: A case study of Moroccan immigrants in the Algarve, Portugal	XXV Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology (Florence, Italy)
2010/10	Interações sociais e território em perspetiva comparada: Três bairros multiétnicos na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa	XII Colóquio Ibérico de Geografia (Porto, Portugal)
2010/04	Marine spatial planning and environmental sensitivity index maps: Benefits and complementary aspects of an integrated use	International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean 2010 (Cascais, Portugal)
2010/04	Development of a GIS for the "Celebration of Coastal Culture"	International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean 2010 (Cascais, Portugal)
2010/04	Quantitative assessment of the differential vulnerability associated to oil spills	International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean 2010 (Cascais, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	V Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 37 (RN37) – Urban Sociology (2022 - 2022) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Sociological Association, France
2021 - 2021	IV Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 37 (RN37) – Urban Sociology (2021 - 2021) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Sociological Association, France

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - 2024	Social Inclusion	Cogitatio Press
2024 - 2024	Asian Journal of Social Science	Elsevier
2023 - 2023	Fuori Luogo	University of Naples Federico II
2022 - 2022	American Journal of Sociology	The University of Chicago Press
2020 - 2020	International Journal of Sociology	Taylor & Francis
2020 - 2020	Social Problems	Oxford University Press
2020 - 2020	Urban Planning	Cogitatio Press
2016 - 2016	Cities	Elsevier

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - 2024	Research Network 37 (RN37), Urban Sociology; European Sociological Association (ESA).	Board member

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024 - 2024	16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference	Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022	V Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 37 (RN37) – Urban Sociology	Berlin, Germany
2021 - 2021	15th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference	Online
2021 - 2021	116th American Sociological Association (ASA) Virtual Annual Meeting	Online

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021	A Hip-Hop Companion to Race and Ethnicity	Sociology (Bachelor)	Brown University, United States
2017 - 2017	Economic Development and Social Change	Sociology (Bachelor)	Brown University, United States
2016 - 2016	Methods for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research	Environmental Studies (Bachelor)	Brown University, United States
2015 - 2015	Classical Sociological Theory	Sociology (Bachelor)	Brown University, United States

Distinctions

Award

2022	Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Brown University, United States
2021	Reginald D. Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence in Pre-College Education (Honorable Mention) Brown University, United States

Other distinction

2020	FCT PhD Studentship (Sociology) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019	CV Starr Program Fellowship (in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations) Brown University, United States
2014	Fulbright Grant for Doctoral Studies in the United States Fulbright Commission Portugal, Portugal