When I was appointed Current Sociology’s editor, I was very aware – because I was told – of the leap of faith that the Publication Committee had taken when choosing that ‘young Brazilian woman’. When my nomination was sent to the ISA Executive Committee for approval, not even the Brazilian members knew anything about me, as they told me, laughing, later on: ‘we had to Google you’. Indeed, while an Assistant Professor at University of Brasilia at that time, my PhD in Anthropology and my ethnographic work on religion had made me transit spaces where not many Brazilian sociologists are regulars. And, of course, I am Latin American, but not Brazilian, so I was hard to identify.