Gregory Scruggs holds a B.A. in Literature from Harvard University, where his thesis on cultural aspects — including audio culture, namely funk carioca — of Rio’s favelas won the Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies. He is currently the Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the American Planning Association. As of December 2010, he will be based in Rio de Janeiro, where he plans to continue his investigations of the relationships between audio and urban spaces.
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