Abner Francisco Sotenos

Ph.D. Student, History

University of California, San Diego

Research Interests:

Afro-Latinos, Critical Race Theory, Racial Formation in Latin America in the context of the modern national state’s formation; discourse of racial harmony in Latin America throughout the 20th century; Military Dictatorships in Latin America; Democracy in the U.S and Latin America; Grassroots Movements in Latin America; Public History.

Alexandra Lemos Zagonel

Ph.D., History

Emory University

Co-founder of BRAHUS

Research Interests:

Modern Brazil; Popular Culture; Brazilian Music and Spirituality; Military Dictatorship.

Aline Beatriz Pereira Silva Coutinho 

Ph.D. student, History

Purdue University

Research Interests:

Feminist movements; Reproductive Rights; 

Gender ideology; Modern Brazil; Gender Studies.

Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes

Ph.D. Student, History

University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:

 Liberated Africans in the Atlantic World, especially in the Portuguese Empire.

Andre Pagliarini

Ph.D., History,

Brown University;

Assistant Professor of History & International Studies,

Louisiana State University

 Research Interests:

Cold War; Nationalism; Development; Dictatorship; Armed Forces; Memory.

Anna Caroline Vertelo

Ph.D. Student, History,

Harvard University

 Research Interests:

Quilombo; Oral History; Race; Memory.

Arthur Schott Lopes

Ph.D. Student, History

University of Chicago

Research Interests: 

Intellectual history; political theory; democracy and democratic theory; early twentieth-century Brazil; race; nationalism; US imperialism

Augusta De Oliveira

Ph.D. Candidate, History

Brown University

Research Interests:

LGBTQ+ history; feminist theory; social movements; gender/sexuality in modern Latin America.

Ayssa Yamaguti Norek

Ph.D. Student, History

Emory University

Research Interests:

Modern Brazil; Political Prisons; Female Incarceration; Military Dictatorship; Gender Studies; and Public History.

Bruna Cerveira

Ph.D. Student, History

Emory University

Research Interests:

Modern Latin America; Atlantic World; Economic History; Transnational History; British Empire.

Bruno Buccalon

Ph.D. Student, History

Rice University

Research Interests:

Latin American History; Environmental History; Digital Humanities.

Caio Fernandes Barbosa

Ph.D., Social History, Federal University of Bahia; Postdoc, History at the University of Nevada Reno

 Research Interests:

Conservative discourses and policies aimed at youth, black men and women during the Cold War; Microanalytical experiments in contemporary authoritarian contexts.

Daniel Travassos Ferreira

Ph.D. Student, History, University of Chicago

 Research Interests:

20th century Brazil; Domestic workers; Education; Social History; Intellectual history.

Diogo Bercito

Ph.D. Student, History

Georgetown University

Research Interests: 

Literature, migration.

Eduarda Araújo

Ph.D. Candidate, African and African American Studies and History

Harvard University

Research Interests: 

Afro-Brazilian social history; Urban space;

Estela Maria Gonçalves de Souza

Ph.D. Student, History

Michigan State University

Research Interests: 

Race, Gender, Black Masculinities, Diaspora, Brazilian Post Abolition Period, 19th century.

Felipe Alfonso

Ph.D. Student, History

Harvard University

Research Interests: 

Social History of slavery and manumission in 19th-century Brazil.

Guilherme Sena de Assunção

Ph.D. Candidate, History

University of California, San Diego

Research Interests:

Conservative movements in Brazil and the US; think tanks; neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the religious right; conservative legal thought.

Hanna Manente Nunes

Ph.D., History

University of Chicago

Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Research Interests: 

Modern Brazil; economic history; material culture and urban studies

Hélio Alves

Ph.D. Student, History

University of Florida, Gainesville

Research Interests: 

Latin American and Caribbean History, 20th Century Cuba, Modern Latin America, Cuban Diaspora, Cold War Politics, Public Opinion, Social and Political Movements.

Kaio Lacet

Ph.D. Student, Latin America and Latino Studies

University of California, 

Santa Cruz

Research interests: Coloniality; Decolonial Studies; Whiteness; Privilege; Public History.

Letícia Cobra Lima

Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Architecture

University of California, 

Santa Barbara

Research Interests: 

Women and Queer Artists; Contemporary Art from South America; Brazilian Art and Architecture; Assemblage Art and the Found Object; Sculpture.

Lucas de Souza Martins

Ph.D. Student, History

Temple University

Research Interests: 

U.S.-Brazil Relations; U.S.-Latin America relations; Cold War Studies; 20th Century Brazil; Modern Colombia.

Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub

Ph.D. Candidate, History

University of Michigan

Research Interests: 

Modern Latin America,  especially Brazil; Legal history; Cultural history of politics.

Luiz Paulo Ferraz

Ph.D. Student, History

Brown University

Co-founder of BRAHUS

Research Interests: 

Modern Latin America, specially Brazil; Indigenous History; Human Rights; Transnational History; Environmental History; Public History

Manoel Rendeiro Neto

Ph.D. Candidate, History

University of California, Davis

Research Interests:

Amazonian History, Atlantic World, Early Colonial Americas, Brazilian History, Indigenous History, Borderlands History, Digital Humanities and GIS methodologies.

Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian

DMA Candidate, Jazz Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:

Transnational practices of black music between Brazil and the United States.

Marcelo José Domingos

Ph.D., History

University of Texas, Austin

Research Interests:

Brazilian History; Cold War in Latin America; Human Rights, archives; U.S.-Latin American Relations.

Maria Paula Andrade

Ph.D. Candidate, History

Vanderbilt University

Research Interests:

Modern Brazil, State Building, Popular Classes.

Marina Dias Lucena Adams

Ph.D. Candidate, History

Brown University

Research Interests:

Gender History; Modern Latin America; Social and Political Movements; Political Subjectivity; Memory Studies; Public History.

Marília Corrêa

Ph.D., History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 

Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University

Research Interests:

Modern Latin America; Cold War politics; military dictatorships in the Southern Cone. 


Mateus Melo

Ph.D. Student, History

University of New Mexico

Research Interests: 

Public history; Authoritarianism and liberty in Latin America.

Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya

Ph.D. Candidate, History

Georgetown University

Research Interests:

Environmental History, History, Latin American History.

Thiago Mattos-Batista

Ph.D. student, African and African American Studies with a primary field in History, 

Harvard University 

Research interests:

Modern Latin America; Race and Ethnicity; Popular festivities.

Tiago Fernandes Maranhão

Ph.D., History

Vanderbilt University;

Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans

Research Interests:

Brazilian History, Public Health and the history of physical culture.


Waldemar Oliveira

Ph.D. Student, History, New York University

 Research Interests:

African Diaspora; 20th Century West Africa and Brazil Relations; Slavery Memory; Afro-Muslims.

Yuri Gama

Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, History,

University of Massachusetts Amherst

 Research Interests:

Modern Latin America; Modern Brazil; Urban History; Global and Transnational History; Public History; Citizenship; Social Inequalities; Housing.