Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro.
Has a degree in History from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1996), a Master’s in History from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1999), a Doctorate in Social History from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2005). Did Post-Doctoral research in Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2019) and Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (2009).
CNPq Researcher with a Productivity Fellowship
Has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis on the History of Brazil. Mainly works with the following themes: economics; society; slavery.
Areas of interest: Slavery in the Americas, freemen in slaveholding societies; Slave families, alforria, forros, and former slaves; Ancien Regime Brazil, hierarchies and social mobility; History of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and Colonial Brazil; Economic and Social History of Brazil (Colony and Empire); History of free labor in slaveholdings societies; History of pre-colonial Africa.
