Matthew Gutmann
Director, BIARI
Matthew Gutmann is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. His research and teaching focuses on men and masculinities; public health; and politics. His books include The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City (also in Spanish and Portuguese); The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Mexico City (also in Spanish and Chinese); Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America; Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control and AIDS in Mexico (also in Spanish); and Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak out against the War (with Catherine Lutz). Most of his ethnographic research has been conducted in Mexico where he is a visiting professor at Colegio de México, and he recently began new research in Shanghai where he is a visiting professor at the Shanghai Theater Academy. At present he is working on several book projects: Global Latin America (an edited volume with Jeffrey Lesser, and the first in the University of California Press Global Square book series, also edited by Gutmann and Lesser); Men Are Animals; and Global Affinities, Citizens of the World. From 2009 to 2013, he was Vice President for International Affairs at Brown, leading the University’s efforts to build collaborations and exchanges with leading institutions around the world and major programs relevant to internationalization, including BIARI. Gutmann has a Master’s in Public Health, and in 2008 he won the Eileen Basker Memorial Award for the best scholarly study on gender and health. He has been a visiting professor in China, France, Mexico, and Spain. In addition to working in Latin America for more than 25 years, Gutmann’s undergraduate degree was in modern and classical Chinese.
Laura Sadovnikoff
Assistant Program Director
Laura Sadovnikoff holds a BA in Russian language and literature from Brown University. After studying at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, she spent several years in the field of US/Soviet cultural exchange, and led over 20 trips to the former Soviet Union. Before coming to Brown, Laura was dean of students at the Putney School in Vermont, and lived and worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Laura has held several administrative positions at the Watson Institute, including program manager of the Humanitarianism and War Project, program manager of the Global Environment Program, and manager of the Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program.
Hayden Reiss
Program Coordinator
Hayden Reiss holds a BA in geography, with a minor in Spanish, from the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the Watson Institute, she worked with Brown's Office of Continuing Education, Warren Alpert Medical School, and Office of International Affairs. She has been part of the BIARI team since its inception, in 2009.
Student Assistants
Paul Abrams '21
Isabel Brodsky '20
Alan Mendoza '20
Frishta Qaderi '20