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Graduate Program in History

Leandro Pereira Gonçalves

E-mail: leandro.goncalves@ufjf.br

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Professor of the History Course and the Post-Graduation Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), he is a Research Productivity Fellow of CNPq. Doctor of History by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (CAPES, 2012), held a doctoral internship at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; CAPES, 2011). He is the author of the political biography of the main Brazilian fascist leader, «Plínio Salgado: a Catholic integralist between Portugal and Brazil (1895-1975)» (FGV Editora, 2018; Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2017). He is also co-author of «Fascism in green shirts: from integralism to neointegralism» (FGV Editora, 2020), a historical work with wide academic and public repercussion, published in English by Routledge in 2022 under the title «Fascism in Brazil: From Integralism to Bolsonarism». Published dozens of articles and book chapters and organized several collections, among which stands out «Fascismos Iberoamericanos» (Alianza Editorial, 2022). Developing research on fascism in Latin America, consolidated this line of research in postdoctoral studies held at the University of São Paulo (PDS/CNPq, 2025), which included a period of research in the Historical Studies Directorate of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico, 2025). He also held a post-doctoral internship at the Universitat de València, where he worked as a researcher, with support from Fundación Carolina and the Tordesillas Group (Spain, 2024), analyzing the connections between Franco’s Spain and Brazilian fundamentalism. He also held a postdoctoral degree at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in the Centro de Estudios Avanzados (Argentina, 2016), dedicated to the study of fascist corporatist thought on the Brazil-Portugal axis.  He was coordinator of the Post-Graduation Program in History at UFJF (2022-2024) and professor of the Post-Graduation Program in History at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2014-2017). He has worked as a visiting professor at national and foreign institutions, such as the Universidad de la República (Uruguay, 2017), in addition to having lectured at different private higher education institutions, such as the Centro de Ensino Superior of Juiz de Fora (2006-2012), and in basic education at the College Academy of Commerce (2005-2013). He was editor of Locus: Revista de História (2019-2021, A2) and Ibero-American Studies (2015-2017, A2). Currently, he is a member of the Administrative Board of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas) and works as a researcher at the Laboratory of Political and Social History (LAHPS/UFJF) and the Laboratory of History and Digital Technologies (HisTech/UFJF). He coordinates the Research Network on Rights, History and Memory (www.direitashistoria.com) and has held several positions in the National Association of History (ANPUH). He is also a researcher at the Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CEHR/UCP), the Observatório da Extrema Direita, the Laboratório de Estudos de Imigração (LABIME/UERJ) and the International Network for Analysis of Corporatism and Organized Interests (NETCOR). Works in the areas of History of Latin America, Iberian History and History of Republican Brazil, based on research developed in a transnational perspective. He researches and directs works with emphasis on the right, fascisms, authoritarianism and corporatism, as well as experiences such as integralism,  salazarism and francoism, with special attention to political parties and movements, political cultures and the intellectual history of the political.

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