Na maua e Miriam Pillar Grossi le faailoga o le Bachelor in Social Sciences mai le Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1981), Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology – Université de Paris V (René Descartes) (1983), ma le PhD in Social Anthropology. Ua ia umia se faailoga faafomai i le Social and Cultural Anthropology mai le Université de Paris V (1988), ma ua maeʻa suʻesuʻega postdoctoral i le Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale o le Collège de France (1996/1998), le Iunivesite o Kalefonia-Berkeley, ma le EHESS (2009/2010).
Sa avea o ia ma Peresetene o le ANPOCS - National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (2019/2020). O se Polofesa Lagolago i le Matagaluega o Anthropology i le Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) talu mai le 1989, sa galue o ia i le Graduate Programs in Social Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Human Sciences, faapea foi i le kolisi o le Social Sciences course i UFSC. Sa avea o ia ma sui mo le Anthropology Area ma le lautele o Humanities Area i le CAPES' Technical-Scientific Council (2001–2004), sa avea ma Peresetene o le Brazilian Anthropological Association (2004–2006), ma le faatonu o le Revista Estudos Feministas (1999-2001).
Na te fa'atautaia su'esu'ega ile Anthropological Theory, History of Women in the Field of Anthropology, Contemporary French Anthropology, ma Qualitative Research Methodologies. O ia o le faʻavae o le NIGS - le Nofoaga Autu mo Faʻamatalaga Faʻasinomaga ma Mataupu - i le Federal University of Santa Catarina, lea o loʻo faia ai suʻesuʻega i matāʻupu o le queer ma feminist theories i mataupu e pei o sauaga faasaga i tamaitai ma lesbian-trans-homophobia; LGBTTT faasinomaga, tulaga faamatua, ma faiga faapaaga; faatufugaga homoerotic; alofa; itupa ma feusuaiga i totonu o aoga; lotu ma feusuaiga; faiga faavae lautele; ma faiga fa'afafine ma LGBTTT. O tamaiti a'oga muamua a le NIGS o lo'o i ai i le tele o iunivesite a Pasila, ma e mafai ona maua le galuega a le feso'ota'iga i luga o le upega tafa'ilagi a le NIGS Network.
I le avea ai o se tagata suʻesuʻe faʻatasi ma le CNPq, o loʻo galue foi o ia ma le IUAES - International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, faʻalauiloaina le fefaʻatauaʻiga ma le faʻasalalauina o galuega faʻasaienisi i vaega o itupa ma feusuaiga i fonotaga faavaomalo ma fonotaga.
