I was brought up in Rio de Janeiro, studied at Colegio Pedro II and received a diploma in History from Universidade do Brasil. Following graduation (1962), I started as Assistant Professor in Ins tituto Superior do Estudos Brasileiros (ISEB) and federal universities. With the military coup of 1964, I went into exile due mainly to my participation as co-author of Historia Nova do Brasil, a revisionist collection of books published by the Ministry of Culture and Education and later by Editora Brasiliense, Sao Paulo. (The books were banned in 1965.) From 1964 to 1968, I followed seminars in the Polish Academy of Sciences and in the University of Warsaw, where I finished a Ph.D. in Humanistic Sciences. I have been in Washington University since 1969, when I first came to the Department of Sociology. Since then I have also experienced working and researching in other countries, such as France (1967 and 1969), Italy (1971-1972), Portugal (1975 to 1980), Sweden, and Brazil, where I have usually taught in the Spring semester since 1981, after the redemocratization of the country.

The main research project I was involved with in the seventies was Memorias do Exilio, centered upon the question, "How has exile changed your Weltanschauung?" Two volumes were published, the first in Lisbon (1976) and Sao Paulo (1978), the second in Rio de Janeiro (1980). In this period, among other books, I have co-edited with P. Piccone Philosophy, History and Culture in the Early Writings of Antonio Gramsci (1975). Different versions came out also in Portugal (1976) and in Brazil (1984). In the eighties, I served in public offices at the State and Municipal level in Rio de Janeiro. In the latter case, as Secretary for Special Affairs (1986 to 1988). I have also published, with R. Fernandes, Jose e Jozef, Uma Conversa Sem Fim (1985). This book, a dialogue between an exile from Eastern Europe and one from Latin America, was originally an article (Telos, Fall, 1973). My historical, diversified background has led me to center my work on understanding social thought, values, and world views in different cultures.

Courses

Societies and Literature in Comparative Perspective, Western Social Thought, Contemporary Social Problems, Films, Human Evolution and Cultures

Selected Publications

Cavalcanti, Pedro Celso Uchoa and Ramos, J.

1976 De Muitos Caminhos, Brasil 1964-19??. Editora Arcadia, Lisbon; and Editora Livramento, 1978, Sao Paulo.

Cavalcanti, Pedro Celso Uchoa and Fernandes, Rubem.

1985 Jose and Jozef, Uma Conversa Sem Fim. Preface by Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Editora Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro.

Cavalcanti, Pedro Celso Uchoa et alii

1993 Historia Nova do Brasil, 1963-1993. Editora Giordano and Edicoes Loyola, Sao Paulo.

Cavalcanti, Pedro Celso Uchoa e Uchoa Cavalcanti, Fernando Celso.

1994 Primeiro Cidadao, Depois Consumidor, Editora Civilizacao Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro.

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