Assistant Professor of Brazilian History.
PhD in History (UFF, 2013)
PPGHIS deputy coordinator

Isabele de Matos Pereira de Mello

Lines of research

Thematic Clusters

Political economies and social relations of production
Slavery, forms of dependency and coercion

Advising subjects

History of Brazil (16th-19th centuries).
Modern history of Portugal.
History of institutions and administrative practices
History of law
History of justice, courts and the judicial system.

Ongoing Research

Power and Justice: the judges and the House of Appeals of Brazil (18th-19th centuries)
The courts of justice of Portuguese America (17th-19th centuries)

Selected Publications

MELLO, Isabele de Matos P. de. Society and Justice in Colonial Brazil in the 17th and 18th Centuries. In: PALACIOS, Guillermo; RAMINELLI, Ronald.. (Org.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. ed. Nova York: Oxford University Press, 2020

MELLO, Isabele de Matos P. de. Los magistrados y sus juicios de residencia en la América portuguesa (siglo XVIII). Revista Historia y Justicia, v. 8, p. 11-40, 2017.

ASSIS, V. M. A. (Org.) ; BICALHO, M. F. (Org.) ; MELLO, Isabele de Matos P. de (Org.). Justiça no Brasil Colonial: agentes e práticas. São Paulo: Alameda, 2017.

MELLO, Isabele de Matos P. de. Magistrados a serviço do rei: os ouvidores-gerais e a administração da justiça na comarca do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Arquivo Nacional, 2015.

MELLO, Isabele de Matos P. de. Poder, Administração e Justiça: Os Ouvidores-Gerais (1624-1696). Rio de Janeiro: Secretaria Municipal de Cultura; Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 2010.

Other Info

Prêmio Arquivo Nacional de Pesquisa (2013)
Prêmio Afonso Carlos Marques dos Santos, Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. (2009)

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