Thiago Henrique Mota

E-mail: thiago.mota@ufv.br

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Professor in the Graduate Program in History (Programa de Pós-Graduação em História – PPGH) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – UFJF) and the Department of History at the Federal University of Viçosa (Universidade Federal de Viçosa – UFV). PhD in History with joint supervision between the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG) and the University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa – ULisboa) (2018). Scientific consultant at Nanjing Agricultural University (China, since 2019) and researcher at the Center for History, ULisboa (Portugal, since 2016). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (USA, 2022) and a Marie-Curie Visiting Scholar at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal, 2019 and 2020). He carried out postdoctoral research with a CAPES fellowship at Midwest State University (Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste – Unicentro-PR, 2018) and the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo – USP), 2018-2020, FAPESP fellowship declined). He was a visiting professor with a CAPES/AULP fellowship at Eduardo Mondlane University (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane – UEM) (Moçambique, 2014). His thesis “História Atlântica da Islamização na África Ocidental – Senegâmbia, séculos XVI e XVII” [“Atlantic History of Islamization in West Africa – Senegambia, 16th and 17th centuries”] received an honorable mention for the Agostinho Neto International Prize for Historical Research (Angola, 2018). Currently, he is a FAPEMIG researcher (Universal Demand public notice, 2021), professor in the professional master’s degree in Cultural Heritage, Landscapes and Citizenship (UFV) and coordinator of the Atlantic Observatories (Observatórios Atlânticos) research group (OBA/CNPq/UFV).

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