Arthur Curvelo is Assistant Professor in the History College at the Federal University of Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF) in Brazil. He holds a PhD in History from the Programa Interuniversitário de Doutoramento em História, associated with the Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon (2019). He holds also a MA in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2014), and a graduate degree from the Federal University of Alagoas (2011). His most relevant publications are centred on the social history of power, institutions and elites in Portuguese America between the 16th and 18th centuries. He has collaborated in different research projects in Brazil and Portugal, most recently in the project RESISTANCE: Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries, as well as in the project Rituals: Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire (1498-1822), and finally, as a research fellow and post-doctoral research fellow he integrated the project VINCULUM: Entailing perpetuity, the social agency of a corporate body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th centuries) (European Research Council - Grant Agreement 819735), developing the sub-project "Entailment societies – A comparative analysis of the entailment societies in the Atlantic World". He published several articles and book chapters in the social history of power, institutions and political communications in Portuguese America, emphasizing local government institutions, royal governors and governorships, but also entailment practices through the foundation of morgadios and capelas. In collaboration with Ana Madalena Trigo de Sousa, Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues, Rita Nóvoa and Maria Teresa de Oliveira, he published "VINCULUM. Entailment societies. Entails in the Portuguese Atlantic (14th-17th centuries)" (Coimbra, 2025).