Jeffrey Lesser is a U.S.-based historian of Latin America who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University.
After two terms as the chair of the History Department at Emory University he was named the first faculty director of the Halle Institute for Global Research [1].
Lesser is also member of the Advisory Board of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for the Study of Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila) [6].
He is the author of a number of monographs in English and Portuguese including,Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, and A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy.
[4] In 2013 Lesser released Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present, which was revised and published in Brazil as A invenção da brasilidade: Identidade nacional, etnicidade e políticas de imigração.