Research fields: Sociology of contemporary social problems; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Critical Family Studies.
Research topics: State-Family relations; Kinship; conjugalities, reproduction; Gender and Sexuality, bisexuality; Feminist Theory and Social Theory; Gender inequalities.
Link(s): Lattes
E-mail: mariliamoscou@usp.br
Minicurriculum:
Professor in the Department of Sociology at the School of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH), University of São Paulo (USP), in the field of Sociology of Contemporary Social Problems. She teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the lead coordinator of the research group “Ímpar: Laboratory for Critical Family Studies,” certified by the CNPq Directory of Research Groups.
She was a fellow of the Summer School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (USA), cohort 2024–2025. Her main current research areas include: critical family studies; gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, with a focus on state–family relations; sexuality/bisexuality; psychoanalytic philosophy; kinship and post-kinship; parenthood and parenting; queer and LGBT studies; non-monogamy/polyamory; sociology of knowledge; sociology of higher education; and gender inequalities in academic careers.
She was a postdoctoral researcher with a FAPESP grant at the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (CEM) in 2022, having previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at FFLCH/USP, within Núcleo de Estudos sobre Marcadores Sociais da Diferença (NUMAS), from 2020 to 2022. During this period, she also collaborated with the Instituto Gerar de Psicanálise and was a thematic research fellow at Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre – Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America), conducting research on the use of the category “family” within the Brazilian Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights between 2019 and 2021. The results of this research period included, among other outcomes, a paper awarded the Lia Zanotta Machado Human Rights Prize at the 46th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS, held in Campinas, São Paulo, in 2022. In 2020, she served as an instructor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in the online master’s program in State, Government, and Public Policy (Rio de Janeiro).
From 2018 to 2020, she was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Bundeskanzler-Stipendium für Führungskräfte von morgen, developing work in collaboration with the Berlin Feminist Film Week in the areas of gender, domestic violence, sexuality, marriage, sexual and reproductive rights, and non-traditional models of relationships and family.
She earned her PhD in Education in 2018 from the School of Education at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Social Sciences and Education area, under the supervision of Dr. Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida. During her doctoral training, she completed a visiting researcher period in 2017 at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France, under the supervision of Gisèle Sapiro. Also during her doctoral studies, she carried out a research internship in 2016 at the Museum of Anthropology of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina, under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Sorá.
She holds a Master’s degree in Education (2013) from the School of Education, Unicamp, as well as a Bachelor’s degree and License in Social Sciences (2009) from the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at Unicamp.
She is the author of high school textbooks published by Editora Moderna, distributed through the National Textbook Program (PNLD) and the private market, both in Sociology/Humanities and in Project-Based Learning.
She has also worked as a columnist and freelance reporter/writer for various websites and media outlets, in addition to serving as a high school Sociology teacher, private tutor in multiple subjects, English teacher, and preschool teaching assistant.