Selected works
Beyond Carnival (1999)
Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil (University of Chicago), published in Portuguese in 2000 as "Além do Carnaval: a homossexualidade masculine no Brasil do século XX" (Editora da UNESP) with an expanded and revised Portuguese-language third edition in 2022. Beyond Carnival was awarded the Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Trust Award by the Lambda Literary Foundation for the best book by an emergent scholar and the Hubert Herring Book Award (co-winner) by the Pacific Coast Council on Latin America (PCCLAS) for the best book on Latin America. In 2001, the Portuguese-language edition won the Cidadania em Respeito à Diversidade [Citizenship Respecting Diversity] Book Prize, awarded by the organizers of the São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade in 2001.
Homossexualismo em São Paulo e outros escritos [Homosexuality in São Paulo and other writings]
Co-edited with Ronaldo Trindade and José Fábio Barbosa da Silva (São Paulo: Editora da UNESP, 2005). Awarded the Cidadania em Respeito à Diversidade [Citizenship Respecting Diversity] Book Award by the organizers of the São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade in 2006.
Frescos Trópicos: Fontes sobre a homossexualidade masculina no Brasil (1870-1980) [Tropical Queers: Sources on Male Homosexuality in Brazil, 1870-1980)
With Ronald Pólito (Rio de Janeiro: José Olímpio, 2006). This volume is a collection of documents on the history of male homosexuality in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Modern Latin America (2010)
Modern Latin America, 7th ed. 2010; 8th ed. 2013, edited with Peter H. Smith and Thomas E. Skidmore (Oxford University Press), 9th ed. 20, 2010. 464 pp.
We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military (2010)
Published originally in 2009 in Portuguese as "Apesar de vocês: a oposição à ditadura militar nos Estados Unidos" (Companhia das Letras) Awarded the Book Work of Merit prize by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association in 2011.
A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (2010)
A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship by Lina Penna Sattamini, translated by Rex P. Nielson and James N. Green, with introduction by James N. Green and Epilogue by Marcos S. P. Arruda (Duke University Press, 2010). A first-person account of the arrest and torture of Marcos Arruda, a leftwing activist, imprisoned for his opposition to the military regime.
Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in the Americas (2012)
Edited with Luis Roniger and Pablo Yankelevich (Sussex Academic Press, 2012).
Who is the Macho Who Wants to Kill Me?”: Male Homosexuality, Revolutionary Masculinity, and the Brazilian Armed Struggle of the 1960s and 70s (2012)
Featured in the first HAHR Open Forum and published in Portuguese as "“Quem é o macho que quer me matar?”: Homossexualidade masculina, masculinidade revolucionária e luta armada brasileira dos anos 1960 e 1970." Awarded the Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize of the New England Council on Latin American Studies; the Audre Lorde Prize of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association for the most outstanding article published on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history, and the Carlos Monsiváis Prize in Social Sciences from the Sexuality Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
Homossexualidades e a ditadura brasileira: Opressão, resistência e a busca da verdade [Homosexualities and the Brazilian Dictatorship: Oppression, Resistance, and the Search for Truth] (2014)
Edited with Renan Quinalha (Editora da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014). This collection of nine articles includes the chapter on homosexuality and the dictatorship written by the two editors for the final report of the National Truth Commission. It received the Cidadania em Respeito à Diversidade [Citizenship Respecting Diversity] Book Award from the organizers of the São Paulo LGBT Pride March in 2015.
História do movimento LGBT no Brasil [History of the LGBT movement in Brazil]
Edited with Renan H. Quinalha, Márcio Caetano, and Marcia Fernandes (São Paulo: Alameda Casa Editorial, 2018). A collection of essays by Brazilian and other LGBT scholars.
Exile Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary (2018)
Portuguese edition, Revolucionario e Gay: A vida extraordinária de Herbert Daniel, a biography of a medical student, guerrilla fighter, and AIDS activist. (Duke University Press)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, and Politics (2019)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, and Politics. 2nd ed., with Victoria Langland and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (Duke University Press), a collection of 120 documents and commentaries on the history of Brazil.
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (2021)
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change,3rd edition, based on the previous editions by Thomas E. Skidmore, (Oxford University Press, 2021), a comprehensive history of Brazil from the colonial period to the present.
