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Jeffrey Lesser is an U.S. based historian of Latin America who as of 2010 is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and chair of the History Department at Emory University. Prior to that he was the Winship Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. He is the author of numerous books on ethnicity immigration and national identity in Brazil.Lesser studied at Brown University (BA 1982; MA 1984) and then gained a Ph.D.