Fabiane Popinigis holds a degree and a doctorate in history (Universidade de
Campinas, UNICAMP, 1999) with a doctoral internship at the University of Paris IV-
Sorbonne. Her thesis on the associative movement of the retail shop workers and
their fight for shorter working hours won the prize Several Histories of
CECULT/UNICAMP, which led to the publication of the book Proletários de Casaca-
trabalhadores no comércio carioca(1850-1911) in 2007. In 2014 she was Resident
Fellow at the Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, at the University of
Buenos Aires. Member of Anpuh (National Association of History), of ALHIS
(Asociacion Latinoamericana e Iberica de Historia Social) and REDLATT (Rede
Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Trabajo y Trabajadores). Between 2009 and 2014
was editor of Revista Mundos do Trabalho and between 2018 and between 2019
2021she coordinated the Brazilian Academic Network of Labor Historians. Between
2021 and 2023 she was coordinator of the History Phd Program at UFRRJ.
Professor at the History Department of UFRRJ (Rural Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro) since 2010 she is currently visting scholar at the Center of Latin American
Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh, acting mainly on the following
subjects: labor history, slavery and abolition and gender relations.