About me

I am a Brazilian PhD Student of Political Science at the University of California Riverside. I have a solid academic formation with two master degrees, one in Political Sociology from UFSC (Brazil) and the second in Latin American Studies from UCSD (United States). I am passionate about education and its power to change not only individuals but entire communities. Specializing in Political Science is the pathway I found that merges both my career ambitions of becoming a higher education professor and researcher while producing and sharing knowledge and tools to change the world.

Education

PhD Political Science Student at UCR Political Science Fall 2024 - Spring 2030

MA in Latin American Studies LAS - UCSD Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
Thesis: Gender Bias and the Far-right in Argentina

MA in Political Sociology at PPGSP - UFSC March 2020 - Jul 2023
Thesis: Presidential procedural decrees in Brazil

Licentiate in Sociology Teaching at UFMG August 2017 - Dec 2018

BA in Social Sciences at UFMG August 2013 - August 2017
Final paper: Democracy and trust in Political Parties.

Professional experiences

Teaching Assistant:

University of California Riverside, Political Science Department Winter 2025 - Current
- Course “POSC161 - United States and Latin American Relations” (Summer 25), with Professor Jeremy Busacca.
- Course “POSC017 - Politics of Global South” (WI25), with Professor Kelechi Kalu.

University of California San Diego Sept 2022 - July 2024
- Course “POLI100DA - Voting, Campaign and Elections” (Summer 24), with Professor Kennedy Pitcher.
- Course “LATI10 - Introduction to Latin America” (Summer 23), with Professor Luis Martin-Cabrera.
- Course “LATI50 - The U.S. Liberation Movements” (FA22, WI23 and SP23), with Professor Amy Kennemore.

Data Analyst at Market Analysis Brazil Feb 2022 - Sept 2022
- Coordinating public opinion research projects with probabilistic sampling.
- Elaborate surveys, training interviewers and writing technical reports.

Research Assistant April 2020 - Jan 2022
- Designing databases for Professor Scott Desposato’s project on Electoral Behavior in Latin America
- Managing microdata of vote intention in Brazil and Mexico.

Sociology Teacher at Escola Estadual Juscelino Kubitschek Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
- Main topics: Scientific Methods and the Schools of Thinking (Sociology); Epistemology and Multiculturalism (Anthropology); From Machiavelli to Przeworski - Thinking Power and State.

Data Analyst Junior at CP2 Public Opinion Institute May 2017 - Mar 2018
- Create surveys, support fieldwork and write technical reports.

Electoral Marketing MBA Intern at Grupo Opinião Pública Aug 2016 - April 2017
- Assisting “Electoral Marketing” and “Latin American Elections” classes. Under Professor Helcimara Telles orientation.

Publications

Chebly, Marina Martins. 2024. “If I Lift My Pen and Say Shazan, I Become a Dictator” – Study on Brazilian Presidential Decrees. In Desafios da Democracia Brasileira: Um Diálogo Entre o Direito e a Ciência Política, edited by Murilo Gaspardo, 167–192. São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica Editora. ISBN 978-65-5954-482-0 (E-book available here)

Scholarships and Academic Engagement

2024 - Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) at BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences).

2023 - LAS Travel Research Grant to conduct field research in Argentina from LAS-UCSD.

2022 - CAPES-DS MA degree scholarship at PPGSP-UFSC.
Master degree studies funded by CAPES institution.

2018 - FAPEMIG scholarship at Centro de Estudos Legislativos DCP-UFMG.
Research with professor Dr. Magna Inácio at the Institutional Presidencies in Latin America - PRILA Project. Classifying presidential orders.

Community and academic engagement

April 2025 - WPSA (Seattle) Conference participation as Chair of the panel “Radicalism and the Far-Right”.
April 2025 - MPSA Annual Conference participation as paper presenter and as discussant for undergraduate poster sessions.
January 2025 - Volunteer in the Southern California Science Olympiad.
2024 - Volunteer in the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education.
2022 - Talk on Brazilian Elections, at the Gildred Latin American Studies Library.
2021 - Student’s representative at the Political Science program (https://ppgsp.posgrad.ufsc.br/representantes-discentes/).

Languages

Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Currently learning French.

Experience with Softwares

RStudio and Markdown . STATA . SPSS . Tableau . Power BI