Paul R. Katz coordinates the Jain Family Institute’s work in Brazil. In addition to his work at JFI, Katz is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Columbia University, where he focuses on state violence, human rights, and the transnational left. Katz has completed a Fulbright-Hays-supported residence at São Paulo’s State University of Campinas, as well as interdisciplinary degrees in history and literature at Harvard and in the social sciences at Argentina’s National University of Luján.