Karla Gobo, an assistant professor at ESPM-Rio de Janeiro and the director of Múnus Social Data, focuses her research on issues related to inequality that impact marginalized communities and minority social groups, with a primary emphasis on the field of diplomacy.

2022 - 2023 Consultant for the Association of Brazilian Diplomats.

Since 2016 Assistant Professor at the ESPM-Rio de Janeiro.

2016 PhD in Sociology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP

2008 - 2014 Assistant Professor at the UNINTER - Curitiba

2008 - 2013 Assistant Professor at the graduate studies program (Especialização) in International Relations at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), in partnership with Casa Latino-Americana (CASLA).

2007 Master's in Political Science at Universidade de São Paulo - USP

2003 Degree in Social Sciences at Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR

Women’s participation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Germany and in Brazil.

• Gender division of labor

• Gender and power

• Race and labor studies

GOBO and SANTOS. The social origin of career diplomats in Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Still an Upper-Class Elite? In: Lequesne, Christian (org.). Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2022.

CARMO, Géssica and GOBO, Karla. Dónde están las mujeres en Itamaraty? Un análisis de la ocupación de espacios en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Brasil. In: FUENTES-JULIO, Claudia et al. Mujeres y politica exterior en America Latina: un mundo de desigualdades. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Economica Chile, 2022

GOBO, Karla. O Palácio é a Casa: distinção e burocracia. Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD, v. 8, p. 597-620, 2019.

GOBO, Karla. Da exclusão à inclusão consentida: negros e mulheres na diplomacia brasileira. Política & Sociedade - Florianópolis - Vol. 17 - No 38 - Jan./Abr. de 2018, pp. 440-464. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2018v17n38p440/36871