Charles Alessi Email: cpa5@pitt.edu cv Fields: Atlantic World, Capitalism and Empire, Latin America MA research topic: My current research focuses on the response within the Atlantic world to the development of republican ideology in São Paulo during the 1880s. The project aims to situate republican claims and their understanding in the domestic political context in relation to the influence and perceptions of Brazil's most important foreign allies, Great Britain and the United States.

Fellowships, Awards:

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellow (Portuguese) 2007-2008 
Phi Alpha Theta Award, 2007
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors Society, 2006
National Scholars Honors Society, 2006
Golden Key International Honours Society, 2006
Faculty Scholarship Award 2006
Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honors Society, 2005
Best Paper in Political Science: HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Debt, and the Liberal Property Right: An Analysis of Choice in a Modern Market Society, 2005