Associate Professor of UFRRJ (Multidisciplinary Institute)

Has a Master’s and Doctorate in History from UNICAMP.

Visiting Scholar in Northwestern University, Evanston (USA) between 2015 and 2016, with funding from Rockfeller Humanities Grants.

CNPq Researcher with a Productivity Fellowship.

Coordinates the Post-Abolition and Worlds of Labor Study Group. Member of Red Iberoamericana de Investigadores en Comunidades Marítimas, from the GT Worlds of Labor and GT Emancipations and Post-Emancipation.

Received the National Archives Award for his Master’s Thesis “A ressaca da marujada: recrutamento e disciplina na Armada Imperial.” His dissertation won the Doctoral Dissertation Competition on Racial Relations and Black Culture in Brazil, from the Afro-Brazilian Center of Studies and the Ford Foundation.

His research is related to the history of the black population in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: slavery, post-abolition in Brazil and the Americas, citizenship, black culture, black associations, sailors, corporal punishments, African diaspora, History of Africa, Teaching of History, and Baixada Fluminense.

Areas of interest: History of Brazil; History of Baixada Fluminense; History of Africa;  Citizenship;  Military History and Teaching of History. Previously was a professor of the graduate and undergraduate departments of History of UFRJ