Professor of the undergraduate courses in History and Humanities at the Institute of Humanities and Languages at the University for the International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (IHLM/UNILAB), Malês campus, Bahia, Brazil (2017 - current).

Professor of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGIHD-UFRRJ)

Coordinator of the undergraduate course in History at the same institute from 2019 to 2020.

Visiting Researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, IHC, FSCH-NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal (2022 - 2023).

Author of the book A Corte em Festa: experiências negras em carnavais do Rio de Janeiro (1879-1888) (Editora Prismas, 2016).

Phd (2016) and Master (2011) in History at Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Winner of the first (2011) and second (2020) prizes in the Monograph Competition of the National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture, IPHAN.

Managing Editor of Programming Historian in portuguese.

Researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab - UFBA.

Member of National working group Emancipações e Pós-­Abolição - Anpuh.

Has experience in Social History of Culture, Humanities and Digital History, Abolition of Slavery and Post-Abolition in Brazil and the Caribbean, working mainly on the following topics:

  • Carnival
  • Citizenship
  • Transnational History
  • African Diaspora
  • Post-Abolition
  • History of Afro-Americas
  • Digital Newspapers Archives
  • Digital research methods
  • Programming languages for research in History
  • Web scraping.

Elementary and high school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2007 and 2017.

Education

  • PhD in History (2012-2016) - Universidade Federal Fluminense, with a scholarship period at the University of Essex, UK.

    • Theses title: Carnavais Atlânticos: cidadania e cultura negra no pós-abolição. Rio de Janeiro e Port-of-Spain,Trinidad (1838-1920)

  • Master degree in History (2009-2011) - Universidade Federal Fluminense.

    • Title: Carnavais da Abolição: Diabos e Cucumbis no Rio de Janeiro (1879-1888)

Professional experience

2022 - 2023: NOVA University Lisbon

Visiting Researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, IHC, FSCH-NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal.

2017 - today: Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-brasileira (UNILAB)

Professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities and Languages at the University for the International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (IHLM/UNILAB), Malês campus, Bahia, Brazil.

Skills

  • Python
    • Pandas
    • Selenium
    • Plotly
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Markdown
  • HTML

Awards and titles

  • 2020 - 2nd Place - Silvio Romero Prize for Monographs on Folklore and Popular Culture, National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture (CNFCP/Iphan).

  • 2017 - PPGH Best Theses Award 2017, Universidade Federal Fluminense.

  • 2011 - 1st Place - Silvio Romero Prize for Monographs on Folklore and Popular Culture, National Center for Folklore and Popular (CNFCP/Iphan).

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