Gerson Levi-Lazzaris

In 1983, his family moved from Curitiba to São Paulo. At age 15 he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, following a short time in Finland. He enrolled in the University of São Paulo, initially studying Archaeology and History, focusing on antisemitism in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He graduated in 2003. In 2007 he obtained a master's degree in archaeology. His dissertation examined Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer societies in Southeast Brazil. He introduced the ecosystem approach in Brazilian archaeology. In March 2007 he enrolled at Vanderbilt University.

Levi-Lazzaris has published articles ranging from political reviews in Trotskyist periodicals to scientific reviews and governmental reports. He has translated books. Levi-Lazzaris developed his doctoral research in Roraima among the Ninam Indians, a Yanomamo subgroup,^[1] publishing ethnoarchaeological studies from the Uraricoera valley. He was the second coordinator of the Frente de Proteção Etnoambiental Yanomami e Ye´kuana through FUNAI during 2010–2011.^[2]