Bernd Reiter

Bernd Reiter is a political scientist and Professor of Luso–Latin American Studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. He has held distinguished international appointments, including serving as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Public Policy and Fulbright Specialist in Brazil, and as Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. In 2020–21, he was a Research Associate at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University, and from 2018 to 2020 he directed the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida. He is the editor of the Routledge Decolonizing the Classics book series and Section Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences. His recent publications include Status: Honor and White Privilege in Brazil and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) and The African Origins of Democracy (Routledge, 2026). Reiter’s research centers on democracy, race, and decolonization, combining comparative politics with historical and ethnographic analysis to challenge Eurocentric narratives and highlight contributions from the Global South.