Faculty

João R. M. Ohara

I am Assistant Professor of Theory and Philosophy of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the deputy coordinator of PPGHIS. I have a PhD in History from the São Paulo State University (2017), with a dissertation on epistemic virtues and Brazilian professional historiography in the 1980’s. I was a visiting researcher at Leiden University and a postdoc researcher at the São Paulo State University, all with competitive funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation. My main areas of interest are the theory and philosophy of history, and my current research focuses on the ethics of history and the moral foundations of professional historiography.

Luiza Larangeira da Silva Mello

Luiza Larangeira da Silva Mello has a PhD in History from PUC-Rio (2010) and is Professor of Theory and Methodology of History at the Institute of History of UFRJ. Her dissertation thesis received Honorable Mention from the CAPES Thesis Award (2013). She is currently deputy coordinator of PPGHIS and was the chief-editor of Topoi. Revista de História. Her research interests are intellectual history, history of culture, theory of history, and literary theory, particularly topics such as the relations between history and fiction, the novel in a historical perspective, and the figuration of subjectivity and time in 19th and 20th centuries fiction.

Andréa Daher

PhD in history from Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Andrea Daher is an emeritus professor at the UFRJ Institute of History, where she coordinates the Research Laboratory for the History of Arts and Literature (PEHL). Her studies, as well as the researches under her supervision, focus on questions related to cultural practices, in particular the practices of representation and the relations between orality and literacy in modern and contemporary world. She is the author of Les Singularités de la France Equinoxiale (2002), Brazilian translation O Brasil francês, (2007); and A Oralidade perdida (2012), French translation L’Oralité perdue (2016). She held from December 2010 to January 201 the Chair of Social Sciences Sergio Buarque de Holanda at Maison des Sciences de l ‘Homme and the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, France. From 2020, she is visiting professor at the Graduate Program in History at the University of Brasília (2020-2021).

Henrique Buarque de Gusmão

Henrique Buarque de Gusmão holds a PhD. from UFRJ and is professor of theory and methodology of history at UFRJ. He is the current coordinator of PPGHIS. He conducts research on theater history, specifically the analysis of the social and historical conditions that configure practices connected to theatrical making in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the production of dramaturgy, the work of the actors, the activity of theater criticism, the construction of staging and the production of theatrical historiography. In recent years, he has focused on the study of the theatrical works of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues and Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, both creators of highly impacted theatrical models. Dr. Gusmão is the author of “The romanesque art of the actor: Constantin Stanislavski in the culture of romance” (Hucitec, 2020).

Sílvia Correia

I am an Assistant Professor at the UFRJ’s Institute of History. I am interested in the Contemporary History of Portugal and Europe, focusing on the conflicts of the twentieth century and their cultural effects from a comparative and transnational perspective. I am engaged in history and memory debates and on critical postcolonial theories of violence. I completed my Ph.D. at the NOVA University of Lisbon (2011) on The Politics of Memory of the First World War in Portugal. In 2012, I was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Brown University and, from 2012 to 2013, at NOVA University of Lisbon working on a comparative approach of the colonial wars’ memory regimes in France and Portugal. My ongoing work focuses on the memories of the Portuguese experience in the First World War in Europe and Africa.

Gabriel de Carvalho Godoy Castanho

Gabriel de Carvalho Godoy Castanho is an assistant professor of Medieval History at the Institute of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He holds a PhD in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2013). He was deputy coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social History at UFRJ (2018-2021), and currently is one of the coordinators of the Theory and History of Medieval Media Laboratory (LATHIMM-UFRJ/USP). His areas of expertise include history, rhetoric and literature; medieval written practices; historiography; historical semantics, the history of concepts; the history of emotions; ecclesiology; the Social History of the Medieval Church; Digital Humanities. He focuses on subjects such as social organization dynamics, culture and power relations; Western monasticism and eremitical life.

Silvia Liebel

Assistant professor of Early modern History at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Silvia Liebel holds a PhD in Early modern French History at Sorbonne Nord-Paris XIII, under the guidance of Robert Muchembled. She is co-coordinator of LAELAPS (Laboratory Europe. Literature, Art, Politics, Society), member of EUROPA (Center for Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary Europe) and associate researcher at Cia. das Indias (UFF), as well as editor-in-chief of Topoi. History Journal. Her research interests include printing history, women’s history and its representations, reception of classical heroines in the 16th and 17th centuries, absolute monarchy, violence and radical Enlightenment, with an emphasis on the French context. She is the author, notably, of Les Médées modernes. La cruauté féminine d’après les canards imprimés français (1574-1651) (PUR).

Maria Paula Nascimento Araujo

Maria Paula Nascimento Araújo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, IUPERJ (1998). She is a full professor in the field of contemporary history at the Institute of History of UFRJ. She is the coordinator of the Brazilian research team “Frontiers of Memory: History and Memory of Military Dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina”. She was president of the Brazilian Association of Oral History (2010-2012). She is the author of Students’ memories: from UNE to our days (2007) and A Utopia Fragmentada: the new Brazilian lefts and in the world in the 1970’s (2000). Her research focuses on political history, mainly on the following themes: memory, politics, left, oral history and the press..

Vinícius Liebel

Historian, PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin (2011), Vinícius Liebel is professor of Contemporary History at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. With postdoctoral internships at USP, PUCRS, UFF and Paris-3, he is the author of Politische Karikaturen und die Grenzen des Humors und der Gewalt (Budrich Unipress, 2011) and Os Alemães (Contexto, 2018). He researches on and supervises students in the following themes: European History of the 20th century, with an emphasis on Cultural and Political History and on Intellectual History; Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism (nazism), Image, Violence and Politics (part. political cartoons).

Monica Grin

With a Ph.D. in political science from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, IUPERJ (2001), Monica Grin is full professor of contemporary history at the Institute of History of UFRJ. She was a FAPERJ Jovem Cientista de Nosso Estado, (2008). She was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social History at UFRJ (2012-2015). She is the author of “Race: public debate in Brazil (2010)”. Her research addresses issues related to race relations, post-abolition, multiculturalism, ethnicity, racial inequality, racism, antisemitism, immigration, and Jewish studies. She is currently the coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Jewish Studies (NIEJ) of UFRJ.

Lise Sedrez

LISE SEDREZ, an environmental historian, teaches the History of the Americas. She has a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Stanford University (2005) and is the co-editor of the book series Latin American Landscapes, University of Arizona Press. Lise collaborates with the feminist collective Inaiá and the ASEH’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, and was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, in 2015-2016. From 2017 to 2021 she was part of the interdisciplinary project Occupy Climate Change!, from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She held postdoctoral position at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2022) and is currently vice-president of the Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (2023-2025). of which she is a founding member. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of disasters, and digital history.

William de Souza Martins

Dr. Martins holds a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo, and in 2010 he joined the faculty of PPGHIS and the Institute of History of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was the graduate program coordinater from 2021 to 2024. His doctoral thesis, “Members of the mystical body: third orders in Rio de Janeiro (c. 1700 – 1822)”, was published in 2009 by Edusp. His studies focus on the analysis of religious orders in the Modern Period, in particular the Franciscans and Carmelites. More recently, Dr. Martins has studied the religious experiences and daily experiences of women in the Old Regime from the perspective of gender relations.

Faculty

João R. M. Ohara

Luiza Larangeira da Silva Mello

Andréa Daher

Henrique Buarque de Gusmão

Sílvia Correia

Gabriel de Carvalho Godoy Castanho

Silvia Liebel

Maria Paula Nascimento Araujo

Vinícius Liebel

Monica Grin

Lise Sedrez

William de Souza Martins

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