Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology – IFCS/UFRJ (DE)
PhD in Social History (UFRJ, 2014)

Michel Gherman

Lines of research

Thematic Clusters

History and violence: memory, trauma and politics of past
History of conflicts, of dictatorial regimes and authoritarisms
Intellectual History, the History of Ideas, and the History of Science
Racial, ethnic and gender relations

Advising subjects

Studies of the Present Time
Studies of Genocide and Genocidal Practices
Jewish Studies
Holocaust Studies
Racial Policies and Racial Debates
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Israeli Society
Studies of International Relations with Emphasis on the Middle East
Nazism, Neo-Nazism and the Far Right
New Right Wings in the Contemporary World
New Right Wings and the Far Right Wing in Brazil

Ongoing Research

New Perspectives on Anti-Semitism-Philo-Semiticism in Brazil and Latin America
The Imaginary Jew in the Political Grammar of the Radical Right in Brazil: From 2010 to the Election of Bolsonaro
Studies of Genocides and Genocidal Practices

Selected Publications

GHERMAN, Michel. O Judeu Imaginário no Bolsonarismo: A Tentativa de Colonização do Judaísmo Brasileiro pelo Fascismo Tropical. São Paulo: Editora Fósforo. 2022.

GHERMAN, Michel .; KLEIN, Misha. From Beacon to Siren: The Transformation of Brazil from Racial Utopia to Racist/Antisemitic Dystopia. Revista Videre (ON LINE), v. 13, p. 65-88, 2021.

GHERMAN, Michel; MELO MIZRAHI, Gabriel. As caixas-pretas de Amós Oz. Novos Estudos. CEBRAP, v. 40, p. 497-514, 2021.

GHERMAN, Michel. Jews, Zionism and the Left in Brazil: Echoes of a Relationship. Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism – ACTA, v. 39, p. 1-13, 2018.

GHERMAN, Michel. O Início do Sionismo no Brasil: Ambiguidades da História. 1. ed. São Paulo: Unifesp, 2018.

Other Info

Member of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies (NEJUC, USP)

Member of the Observatory of the Far Right (UFJF)

Funding from the Open Society Foundation for the research The Imaginary Jew in the Political Grammar of the Radical Right in Brazil: From 2010 to the election of Bolsonaro

 

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