Thiago Henrique Mota
E-mail: thiago.mota@ufv.br
Professor of the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Doctor of History under co-tutelage between the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the University of Lisbon (2018). He was a scientific consultant at the Nanjing Agricultural University (China, 2019-2022), Fulbright visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (USA, 2022) and Marie-Curie visiting researcher at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal, 2019 and 2020). He completed a postdoctoral internship with CAPES scholarship at the Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro-PR, 2018) and at the University of São Paulo (USP, 2018-2020, declined FAPESP grant). He was visiting professor with a CAPES/AULP scholarship at the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique, 2014). His thesis “Atlantic History of Islamization in West Africa – Senegâmbia, 16th and 17th centuries” received an honorable mention at the Agostinho Neto International Historical Research Award (Angola, 2018).
Main Publications
- Instrução Islâmica na Senegâmbia e práticas de Muçulmanos Africanos em Portugal: uma abordagem Atlântica (séculos XVI e XVII). Estudos Históricos, v. 30, p. 35-54, 2017.
- The Ivory Saltcellars: A contribution to the history of Islamic expansion in Greater Senegambia during the 16th and 17th centuries. Afriques – Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d’Histoire, p. 1-27, 2019.
- Muslims, Moriscos, and Arabic-Speaking Migrants in the New World. Latin American Research Review, v. 55, p. 820-828, 2020.
- Um coração de rei: Cultura política islâmica como antecedente das revoluções muçulmanas na África Ocidental (Senegâmbia, séculos XVI e XVII). Varia Historia, v. 36, p. 295-328, 2020.
- Wolof and Mandinga Muslims in the early Atlantic World: African background, missionary disputes, and social expansion of Islam before the Fula jihads. Atlantic Studies, v. 1, p. 1-27, 2021.