Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

{{Short description|Brazilian anthropologist and publisher}}

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| name = Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

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| birthname = Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz

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| birth_place = São Paulo, SP, Brazil

| nationality = Brazilian

| alma_mater = Universidade de São Paulo

}}Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist.{{Cite news|url=http://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/bibliotecavertical/lilia-moritz-schwarcz-lima-barreto/|title=Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: 'Não é um acaso que Lima Barreto vem sendo retomado agora'|work=Biblioteca Vertical|access-date=2017-10-05|language=pt-br}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2010/08/17/talking-about-brazil/|title=Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz|last=Darnton|first=Robert|date=2010-08-17|website=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2017-10-06}} She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at Princeton University.{{Cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/09/22/four-new-global-scholars-set-visit-campus|title=Four new Global Scholars set to visit campus|work=Princeton University|access-date=2018-09-05|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/brazil-studies-program-seminar-series-lima-barreto-sad-visionary-brazil-beginning-xx|title=Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series: Lima Barreto – A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century|website=drclas.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-05}}

Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the Brazilian Empire, social identity, slavery and race relations between White and Afro-Brazilian peoples.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/brasil-44034767|title=Brasil viveu um processo de amnésia nacional sobre a escravidão, diz historiadora|last=Carneiro|first=Júlia Dias|date=2018-05-10|work=BBC News Brasil|access-date=2018-09-05|language=en-GB}}

Schwarcz is Jewish.{{cite web|title=Lilia Schwarcz|website=fgv.br|access-date=23 August 2023

|url=https://cpdoc.fgv.br/sites/default/files/cientistas_sociais/lilia_schwacz/TranscricaoLiliaSchwarcz.pdf|language=pt}} In 1986, she co-founded the Companhia das Letras publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz.{{Cite news|url=http://vogue.globo.com/lifestyle/cultura/noticia/2016/10/dama-de-palavra-lilia-moritz-schwarcz-celebra-30-anos-da-companhia-das-letras.html|title=Dama de palavra: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz celebra 30 anos da Companhia das Letras|work=vogue.globo.com|access-date=2017-10-05}} She is a curator for the São Paulo Museum of Art,{{Cite news|url=http://www.pipaprize.com/2017/10/many-histories-sexuality-told-group-show-masp/|title=The many histories of sexuality are told in group show at MASP - PIPA Prize|date=2017-10-20|work=PIPA Prize|access-date=2018-09-05|language=en-US}} and writes a column at the news website {{Interlanguage link|Nexo Jornal|pt}}.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nexojornal.com.br/colunistas/author/Lilia-Schwarcz|title=Lilia Schwarcz|work=Nexo Jornal|access-date=2018-09-05|language=pt-BR}}

In 2024, Lilia was elected to occupy seat number 9 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL).{{Cite web |date=2024-03-07 |title=Lilia Moritz Schwarcz é eleita imortal pela Academia Brasileira de Letras - Revista O Grito! — Jornalismo cultural que fala de tudo |url=https://revistaogrito.com/lilia-moritz-schwarcz-e-eleita-imortal-pela-academia-brasileira-de-letras/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |language=pt-BR}}