Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is a Political Scientist in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was the 2013-2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. In 2016, she was elected the Vice President of the Brazil Studies Association. She has co-edited both Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil (2016) and Brazil's New Racial Politics (2010).