Graziella Moraes Silva is a Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) associated to the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA) and vice-coordinator to the Interdisciplinary Center for Inequality Studies (NIED) in Brazil. In September 2016, she is joining the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies - Geneva, Switzerland as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Development. She received her PhD in Sociology from Harvard University in 2010 with a dissertation comparing the experiences and perceptions of black professionals in Brazil and South Africa. She was also one of the co-authors of the book "Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel" (forthcoming 2016, Princeton Press) with Michèle Lamont (Harvard University).

Graziella's current research projects include a comparison of elites’ attitudes about poverty and inequality in Brazil, South Africa and Uruguay (with Elisa Reis, UFRJ and Chana Teeger, University of Johanesburg) and a comparison of horizontal stratification among black professionals in Brazil and United States (with Thomas DiPrete, Columbia University and Flavio Carvalhaes, UFRJ).