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
Articles published in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
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)’