Dr. André Luís Bezerra Ferreira

Researcher

Main Focus

  • Amazon and Indigenous Peoples
  • Legal history of the Iberian worlds
  • Early modern Latin America
  • Natural law and Enlightenment reformism
  • Slavery, mestizaje and race
  • Historical archives and Digital Humanities

Former Max Planck Research Group

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Postdoctoral researcher in the Global Legal History on the Ground Research Group, which is situated at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

Education

2018–2023

PhD – Social History of the Amazon, Federal University of Pará, UFPA, Brazil.
Dissertation: ‘The memories of the “Sertões”: Captivity, Slavery and Freedom of Indigenous and Mestizo People in the Amazon (17th-18th century)’
(Dissertation Director: Dr Karl Heinz Arenz)

2015–2017

MA – Social History of the Amazon, Federal University of Pará, UFPA, Brazil.
Master Thesis: ‘In the Mesh of Freedoms: The Court of the Junta das Missões and the Government of the Indians in the Captaincy General of Maranhão (18th century)’
(Thesis Director: Dr Karl Heinz Arenz)

2010–2014

BA – Human Sciences - History Federal University of Maranhão, UFMA, Brazil
Bachelor’s Thesis: ‘The Companhia de Cachéu, Cape Verde and Maranhão on the Transatlantic Routes for African slaves (1670-1700)’
(BA Thesis Director: Dr Pollyanna Mendonça Muniz)

Fellowships and research positions

1 October 2021–30 March 2022

Research Fellowship: Heinz Heinen Kolleg Doctoral Fellowship, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn (Germany).

1 September 2020–30 August 2021

Research Fellowship: Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands    
Research Fellowship, Participant in the Project entitled: ‘Revisiting Dutch Brazil and Johann Maurits’  

1–30 November 2019

International Research Internship: University of Sevilla, Spain                        
International Internship at the University of Seville.

1 March 2019–30 December 2019

National Doctoral Internship: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
National Internship at the Center for Research for the History of Slavery in the Atlantic World.

Publications

Published Books/Monographs

Ferreira, A. L. B.: Injustos cativeiros: os índios no Tribunal da Junta das Missões do Maranhão. Caravana, Belo Horizonte (2021), 271 pp.

Articles published in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals

Ferreira, A. L. B.: Modos de viver: a administração portuguesa e a legislação indigenista na Amazônia (1680-1757). Habitus 17 (2), pp. 414 - 429 (2019)
Ferreira, A. L. B.: "Mães das Liberdades": os processos de mulheres indígenas no tribunal da Junta das Missões na Capitania do Maranhão (1720-1757). Fronteiras: Revista Catarinense de História 31, pp. 69 - 85 (2018)

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Ferreira, A. L. B.: The Uses and Management of Indigenous, African, and Mixed-Raced Identities in the Legal Sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century). In: Diversity and Empires. Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity, pp. 79 - 94 (Eds. Heijmans, E.; Rose, S.). Routledge, London; New York (2023)
Ferreira, A. L. B.: Os ventres mestiços e as memórias indígenas: as estratégias cativas no Tribunal da Junta das Missões na Amazônia portuguesa (século XVIII). In: Esclavas, horras y libres. Historias de mujeres en los mundos ibéricos, siglos XVI-XIX, pp. 389 - 404 (Eds. Pérez García, R. M.; Corona Pérez, E.; França Paiva, E.; Fernández Chaves, M. F.). Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla (2023)

Honours and awards

2019

International Young Investigator Award (Portugal)
Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (Faro, Portugal)
Awarded for the conference paper: ‘Mestizo freedoms: the coexistence of indigenous and African slavery in the Amazon (18th century)’

2014

Best Thesis Award; 1st Place
IV Annual Monograph Prize, GEIA Festival of Literature, Instituto GEIA 
Awarded for the thesis: ‘The Companhia de Cachéu, Cape Verde and Maranhão on the Transatlantic Routes for African slaves (1670-1700)’

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