Felipe Brandi holds a PhD in Histoire et Civilisations from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He completed his Master and Bachelors degrees in Social and Cultural History (História Social da Cultura) at the Pontificia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). A specialist in the field of Historiography, his research focuses on 20th century intellectual history, with a special interest in a both historical and critical approach to contemporary historical thought. His main research fields are Historiography, Cultural History and Memory Studies, and his research lines are French and Brazilian Intellectual history, Intellectual history, Medieval representations in Modern and Contemporary age and History’s theory. His works are a contribution to the History of historical ideas in the last century. His work focus primary on the French historical school, to which he devoted his Master’s dissertation on the work of French Hellenist Jean-Pierre Vernant, where he explored the rise of interdisciplinary exchange in Post-war French social sciences, with a special focus on the efforts made to link History and Anthropology. After that, Felipe Brandi has been dedicated to a long PhD research that led to a thesis, defended in June 2017 at the EHESS, about the historical work of the medievalist Georges Duby and the French Social History of the 20th Century, entitled “Georges Duby: penser l’histoire. La construction d’un modèle d’histoire sociale (France, 1950-1980)”. After his PhD defense, Felipe Brandi became Associated Researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques of the EHESS and was invited by Gallimard publishing house to work as scientific editor at the preparation of the edition of Georges Duby’s Oeuvres at the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, published in September 2019. During the preparation of his PhD dissertation, he co-authored the book, dedicated to Historiography, La Chambre de veille (Flammarion, 2013), with François Hartog and Thomas Hirsh, gave lectures at international scientific events in France, the United States, Brazil, Spain and Germany, and had the opportunity to organize scientific events: a workshop on Historiography at the EHESS in 2009, an annual course directed to PhD students at the EHESS (2009), a special issue of the Atelier du Centre de Recherches Historiques journal (2010), and he also coordinated an interdisciplinary seminar on Autobiographies, crossing History and Literature, at the American Comparative Literature Association 2014’s meeting in New York. In 2020, he was Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo and also at the Instituto Rui Barbosa de Altos Estudos em Cultura and at the History department of the Pontificia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro. His current research is organized in two main directions: on one hand, he has worked in the field of Memory Studies in order to explore the political uses of history, the contemporary representations of the medieval past, as well as how present-day democracies deal with their own “lieux de mémoire”. Presently, he is devoted to study of the tumultuous history of the models of social organization of the Ancien Regime and the way in which they are now part of the contemporary European imaginary. On the other hand, his current book project on contemporary French historical school combines theoretical reflection on the historian’s craft with extensive archival research in collections belonging to some of the most eminent French historians of the last fifty years. His historical approach remains deeply concerned with the social place of History in our present times, and therefore seeks to place theoretical inquiry within a broader cultural frame. Within this broader cultural scope, historical analysis can cover a wide spectrum from the scholarly work of professional historians to the diverse ways our societies deal with conflicting and divisive representations of the past.