Faculty
Permanent professors
Professor Alessandra Souza Melett Brum
PhD in Multimedia (UNICAMP, 2009)
Area of expertise: Cinema and film history.
Professor Ana Paula Pereira Costa
PhD in Social History (UFRJ, 2010)
Area of expertise: Modern history, history of colonial Brazil, history of the elites, slavery and military history in colonial Brazil.
Professor Carina Martins Costa
PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Heritage (FGV, 2010)
Area of expertise: Historical museums, with a focus on exhibition expographic and educational narratives, especially the production of communication and educational materials.
Professor Carla Maria Carvalho de Almeida (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in History (UFF, 2001)
Area of expertise: History of the Portuguese Empire, American slavery, the Old Regime and its economic and social elites.
Professor Cláudia Maria Ribeiro Viscardi (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in Social History (UFRJ, 1999)
Area of expertise: Political and social history of Brazil from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s, focusing on political institutions, political cultures, and the intellectual history of politics.
Professor Denise da Silva Menezes do Nascimento
PhD in Social History (USP, 2009)
Area of expertise: Medieval history, with special attention to studies of female religiosity and relationships of solidarity and strategies of control and agency.
Professor Fernanda Nascimento Thomaz
PhD in History (UFF, 2012)
Area of expertise: History of Africa, specifically Mozambique, focusing on topics related to colonialism, legal pluralism, intersectionality of race, class and gender.
Professor Fernando Perlatto Bom Jardim (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in Sociology (UERJ, 2013)
Area of expertise: History of Republican Brazil and history of the present time, focusing on dictatorship, democracy, public history, intellectual history and memory disputes.
Professor Hebe Maria da Costa Mattos Gomes de Castro (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in History (UFF, 1993)
Area of expertise: History of Brazil, with an emphasis on slavery, abolition, memory, video-history and oral history.
Professor Hevelly Ferreira Acruche
PhD in History (UFF, 2017)
Area of expertise: History of Brazil and the Americas in the colonial and independent periods, with an emphasis on indigenous and African slavery, diplomatic relations, border regions, and inter-American cooperation.
PhD in History (Unicamp, 2024)
Area of expertise: History theory, history of historiography, business history, archives, memory studies, digital history, digital humanities, present-time history.
Professor Leandro Pereira Gonçalves (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in History (PUC-SP, 2012)
Area of expertise: Contemporary History of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, and History of Republican Brazil, with a focus on rights, fascism, corporatism and experiences such as integralism, salazarism and francoism. Transnational and Comparative History. Political parties and movements, political cultures and intellectual history of the political.
Profa. Dra. Maíra Ines Vendrame (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in History (PUCRS, 2013)
Area of expertise: History of Brazil, International Migration, Rural World, Crime and Justice, Micro-history, Studies of Trajectory, Public History.
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Professor Maraliz de Castro Vieira Christo (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in History (UNICAMP, 2005)
Area of expertise: History of art in Brazil in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, history of art in the nineteenth century, comparative studies in art history, and history of and collections at the Mariano Procópio Museum (Museu Mariano Procópio).
PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (UFBA, 2007)
Area of expertise: Revitalization, conservation and restoration, heritage protection instruments, cultural heritage policy and management, and history of modern and contemporary architecture.
Professor Maria Claudia Bonadio
PhD in History (UNICAMP, 2005)
Area of expertise: History of fashion and its relations with consumption, gender and visual culture; Fashion and museums; History of consumption and advertising; History of women and LGBTQIAPN+ groups in the twentieth century.
Professor Martinho Alves da Costa Junior
PhD in History (UNICAMP, 2013)
Area of expertise: History of art and culture, particularly the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, art and culture of the late nineteenth century, comparativism in art history, and history of cinema.
Professor Mateus Rezende Andrade
PhD in History (UFMG, 2018)
Area of expertise: Historical sociology, economics and population, historical demography, family history, slave societies, and analysis of social networks, social mobility, hierarchies and inequalities.
Professor Mônica Ribeiro de Oliveira
PhD in History (UFF, 1999)
Area of expertise: Slavery, the free population of color, and family history and agrarian societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Professor Odilon Caldeira Neto
PhD in History (UFRGS, 2016)
Area of expertise: Contemporary history and history of the present time, as well as the history of Republican Brazil, with a focus on fascisms, neo-fascisms, the radical right wing and political uses of the past.
Professor Renata Oliveira Caetano
PhD in Art (UERJ, 2017)
Area of expertise: History of art and culture, in particular the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, collections, manuscripts (artists’ letters and notebooks), relationships between drawing and writing, and art education.
Professor Robert Daibert Júnior
PhD in Social History (UFRJ, 2007)
Area of expertise: Afro-Brazilian religious experiences in Brazil (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), black intellectual thought, religion and writing of the self, African literature, religion, slavery and abolitionism.
Professor Rodrigo Christofoletti
PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Heritage (FGV, 2010)
Area of expertise: Comparative studies between world and humanity heritage; international cultural relations; cultural diplomacy; legislation of cultural goods; education in heritage; case studies of material heritage; immaterial and natural heritage; soft power.
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Professor Silvana Mota Barbosa
PhD in History (UNICAMP, 2001)
Area of expertise: Social history of politics, in particular the question of women, political powers, parties, circulation of printed matter and the press throughout the nineteenth century in Brazil and the Americas.
Professor Tatyana de Amaral Maia
PhD in History (UERJ, 2010)
Area of expertise: History of the Brazilian Republic, Public History with emphasis on cultural policies, civil-military dictatorship, intellectuals, heritage, rights.
Professor Thiago Henrique Mota (PQ/CNPq)
PhD in Social History of Culture/History of Africa (UFMG/University of Lisbon, 2018)
Area of expertise: History of Africa prior to 1900, with a focus on the Maghreb, West Africa and Portuguese-speaking African countries, Atlantic history, history of Islam in Africa and the Muslim diasporas.
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PhD in History (Universitat de València, 2014)
Area of expertise: Transnational History, fascism, public space, gender relations and women’s history.
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PhD in History (University of New Hampshire, 2001)
Area of expertise: History of America, with emphasis on the Rio de la Plata and the United States. Comparative history, especially on the processes of construction of National States.
Collaborating professors
Professor Alexandre Mansur Barata
PhD in History (UNICAMP, 2002)
Area of expertise: Political and cultural history of Portuguese America (late seventeenth century and early nineteenth century), history of Brazil (nineteenth century), and history of Minas Gerais (nineteenth century).
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Professor Ignácio José Godinho Delgado
PhD in Sociology and Politics (UFMG, 1999)
Area of expertise: Business, development, industrial policy, social policy, social security, health systems, and citizenship.
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Professor Patricia Santos Hansen
PhD in Social History (USP, 2007)
Area of expertise: Intellectual History and Gender; History of Intellectuals; History of the Book, Edition and Reading; Historiography and History Teaching; Nationalisms and Childhood.
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Professor Ronaldo Pereira de Jesus
PhD in Social History (USP, 2001)
Area of expertise: History of the Empire of Brazil and the First Republic, on topics such as associative culture, mutualism, social movements, popular classes, and formation of the working class.
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Visiting professors (2025-2028)
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Professor Justin Amuri Mweze (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (Catholic University of Mozambique)
Area of expertise: Education and Training Systems. School Education in the context of Human Mobility, with special attention to forced migrations in the Global South.
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Professor Rafael Gonzalez Gonzalez (Venezuela)
PhD in Education (UFBA, 2023)
Area of expertise: Problems of the contemporary world; Forced migration; Schooling in contexts of human mobility; Interculturality. South-South migration; Migratory processes in South America; Venezuelan migration; Human rights.
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Visiting professors (2021-2024)
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Professor Alessandro Peregalli
PhD in Latin American Studies, (National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2021)
Area of expertise: Contemporary History of Latin America, Critical Geopolitics, Latin America Social Social Thought, Geography of Social Conflicts, Critical Logistics.
PhD in Contemporary History (Universitat de Barcelona, 2013)
Area of expertise: Youth Cultures, nationalism, political and sporting extremism.
Professor Carlos Benítez Trindad
PhD in History (Pablo de Olavide University/UFBA, 2017)
Area of expertise: Indigenous History and Indigenism, Civil-Military Dictatorship, Transnational History.
Professor Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile
PhD in History (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1999)
Area of expertise: History of Brazil, Colonial Catholicism, and slavery in the colonial societies of America, Jesuits in colonial Brazil.
Ph.D. in Afro-Latin American Literature and Studies (Universidad de Alcalá, 2004)
Research Areas: African and diasporic studies, Afro-Latinidad/Afro-Latinx Studies, African/diasporic feminism, Afro-postcolonial and Afro-decolonial theories.
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Professor Justin Amuri Mweze (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (Catholic University of Mozambique)
Area of expertise: Education and Training Systems. School Education in the context of Human Mobility, with special attention to forced migrations in the Global South.
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PhD in History (UFRGS, 2022)
Area of expertise: Intellectual History, History of Political Ideas, Women’s history, Latin America History.
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Professor Rafael Gonzalez Gonzalez (Venezuela)
PhD in Education (UFBA, 2023)
Area of expertise: Problems of the contemporary world; Forced migration; Schooling in contexts of human mobility; Interculturality. South-South migration; Migratory processes in South America; Venezuelan migration; Human rights.