Program Partners
The WBO is an independent institution that connects, supports and carries out advocacy, knowledge and cooperation activities to strengthen civil society, protect human rights, promote sustainable and socioeconomic development, and defend democracy and the rule of law in Brazil.
Professor James N. Green, a professor of Brazilian History and Culture, founded and is co-coordinating this project in conjunction with Brown University Libraries as part of the expansion of the Brasiliana Collection and the development of Brazil: From Dictatorship to Democracy Project at Brown University.
Sidnei J. Munhoz, formerly a history professor at the State University of Maringá when this project was created and currently a professor of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, has dedicated several years to expanding access to U.S. State Department documents. He spearheaded a project to digitize microfilmed copies of U.S. State Department documents pertaining to Brazil from 1908 to 1939 and 1945 to 1959, in partnership with the Brazilian National Archive and with funding from the Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), an agency of the Brazilian government. The digital copies of these documents will be made available on a website hosted by the State University of Maringá in the near future.
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an “independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch” charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. NARA has partnered with Opening the Archives for years by welcoming student researchers every summer to digitize government documents.
Peter Kornbluh is a research director at the National Security Archive, an independent, non-governmental research institute and library located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. that collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Kornbluh served as a consultant to the Brazilian National Truth Commission (2012-14).
In 2011m the Brazilian National Archive joined the Opening the Archives Project through Memórias Reveladas (Revealed Memories), a clearing house that is collecting additional archival material about the nation’s recent past. Professors Green and Munhoz serve on a subcommittee of the Commission of Advanced Studies of the Memorias Revelados Project, whose task was to find ways to facilitate greater access to foreign documents concerning Brazil for scholars and the general public.
Bem-Te-Vi Diversidade
Bem-Te-Vi Diversidade joined the Opening the Archives Project under the directorship of Mariana Moreau. The organization is dedicated to empowering cultural associations and social interest groups.
