She also edited a volume of the collection History of Brazilian Life in Brazil (Companhia das Letras, 2008), and was chief editor of História do Brasil Nação: 1808-2010 (Fundação Mapfre/ Objetiva) a six volumes series on Brazilian History. In 2017 she is going to publish, with James Green, Brazil Reader (Duque University Press).

She was a curator of some exhibitions like: The great travel of the king’s Library (2006, Rio de Janeiro), and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay: a French translation of the tropics (2008, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), A history of Brazil an interpretation by photographs, (with Boris Kossoy, 2013, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte), Mestizo Histories (with Adriano Pedrosa, 2014, São Paulo), Childhood histories (2016, São Paulo). Pedro II a tropical king, (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2004), and Brazil: a biography – with Heloisa Starling (Farrar Strauss and Giroux and Penguin UK, to be published in 2017).

She published several books, such as Retrato em branco e negro (1987), A longa viagem da biblioteca dos reis (2002), O sol do Brasil (2008) Um Enigma chamado Brasil - with Andre Botelho - (2013), A Batalha do Avai – with Lucia Stumpf and Carlos Lima, (2014) (20014) among them three in English: Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions and Racial Theories in Brazil at the End of the XIXth Century (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1999) and The Emperors beard: D. Her main interests are History of the Slaves, Racial Theories, History of the Brazilian Empire, Academic Art, History of Anthropology. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Full Professor in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and Visiting Professor at Princeton.

Brasil by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz