Next fall, five years after Pres­i­dent Shirley Tilgh­man pub­lished the fall 2007 report “Prince­ton in the World,” which delin­eated mea­sures for expand­ing the University’s inter­na­tional pres­ence, the Uni­ver­sity will announce a for­mal aca­d­e­mic part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Sao Paulo in Brazil, accord­ing to his­tory pro­fes­sor and Coun­cil for Inter­na­tional Teach­ing and Research Direc­tor Jeremy Adelman.

Between 2012 and 2015, Prince­ton and USP fac­ulty will study “Race and Cit­i­zen­ship in the Amer­i­cas,” sup­ple­mented by a series of major yearly con­fer­ences and smaller work­shops with fac­ulty and stu­dents at the schools, accord­ing to the project pro­posal announced Thurs­day. The project will facil­i­tate the host­ing of grad­u­ate schools at the two uni­ver­si­ties, with the ulti­mate goal of “strengthen[ing] and broaden[ing] Princeton’s aca­d­e­mic and insti­tu­tional ties with Brazil.”

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