Eva Rubens Célem is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Media, and Publics program. Her research interests include democracy, social movements, memory, and truth-producing discourses. Eva’s dissertation project investigates Brazilian women’s democratic ideals and their distinct contributions to democratic theory and practice. She holds a graduate certificate in Critical Theory, and before coming to Northwestern she earned a BA and MA in Design and Society from PUC-Rio, Brazil. Her master’s thesis analyzed second-wave feminist subjectification processes and the tensions between feminism, liberalism, and identity politics in both the U.S. and Brazil. In 2019, Eva was a Visiting Scholar at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, where she conducted archival research that supported this work. evacelem@u.northwestern.edu