The professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) and one of the founders of the Workers’ Party (PT), José Álvaro Moisés, died this Friday (13), aged 80, on the coast of São Paulo. The death was confirmed by the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP).
“Her academic trajectory, marked by intellectual rigor and commitment to public life, leaves an unavoidable legacy for the area and for generations of researchers”, highlighted the association, in a statement.
Moisés, graduated in social sciences from USP in 1970, master in politics and government from the University of Essex in 1972, and doctor in political science from USP in 1978, was a visiting professor at the Latin American Center at the University of Oxford in 1991 and 1992).
He served as a senior professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP, Coordinator of the Democracy Quality Research Group at the same institute and researcher at the Public Policy Research Center at USP, of which he was director from 1995 to 2017.
