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Patrícia Martins Marcos. Completed the Licenciatura in Licenciatura em História (pré-Bolonha) in 2006/12/01 by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Doctor of Philosophy in History and Science Studies in 2022/12/10 by University of California San Diego, Master in Master of Public Administration and Cultural Studies in 2012/10/02 by Roskilde Universitet and Master in School of Public Policy in 2015/06/15 by Oregon State University. Published 8 articles in journals. Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Philosophy, Ethics and Religion with emphasis on History and Philisophy of Science and Technology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Colonialismo and pos-colonialismo português; história do corpo; trauma e história; história brasileira; Portuguese colonialism and postcolonialism; history of the body; trauma and history; Brazilian history; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patrícia Martins Marcos

Citation names

  • Patrícia Martins Marcos
  • Marcos, Patrícia Martins

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DA1D-FF26-5453
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4802-5488

Email addresses

  • pmarcos@ou.edu (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Danish Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Latin Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/21 - 2022/12/10
Concluded
 History and Science Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in History and Science Studies
University of California San Diego, United States
"Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 20
2013/09/15 - 2015/06/15
Concluded
 School of Public Policy (Master)
Major in Public Policy and Science and Technology Studies
Oregon State University, United States
2007/09/01 - 2012/10/02
Concluded
 Master of Public Administration and Cultural Studies (Master)
Roskilde Universitet, Denmark
2001/09/07 - 2006/12/01
Concluded
 Licenciatura em História (pré-Bolonha) (Licenciatura)
Major in História
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States
2025/12/31 - 2026/08/15 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/08/01 - 2025/12/15 Professor Visitante Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História, Brazil
Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Brazil
2022/12/01 - 2024/12/01 UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow University of California Los Angeles, United States
University of California at San Diego Department of Biomedical Informatics, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2026/05/01 - 2026/07/31 (Brazil) CNPq Bolsa Nº 49/2024 PVE UFMG: Imperial Whiteness: Patriarchy, Population, and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Archives of Minas Gerais (1600—1850)
Nº 49/2024
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Escola de Ciência da Informação, Brazil
 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
2025/05/01 - 2025/06/01 Research Fellow in Portuguese Archives, FLAD Luso American Foundation Imperial Whiteness
flad
2024/06/01 - 2024/09/01 Short-term grant, Fundação Luso Americana Research in Portuguese Archives, research residency Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
FLAD
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2015/09/25 - 2022/11/18 Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)
Configurations of the Human
University of California San Diego, United States

Brown University John Carter Brown Library, United States

University of Toronto, Canada

Philadelphia College of Physicians, United States

The Huntington Library Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, United States

University of California Los Angeles, United States

American Philosophical Society, United States

BBQ+ Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, United States

Yale School of Medicine Harvey Cushing John Hay Whitney Medical Library, United States

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, United States
Concluded
2020/08/07 - 2021/05/01 Dissertation Fellow, The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, USA.
BBQ+
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2013/09/01 - 2015/06/15 Fulbright Scholar, Luso-American Foundation, Master of Public Policy, Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR.
fulbright
Master Student Fellow
2006/09/01 - 2008/03/01 CIRIUS Scholar, Danish Ministry of Science and Technology, Master of Social Science, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, (Denmark).
danish ministry
Master Student Fellow
2005/04/01 - 2006/04/04 Projecto Portugal e a Europa: Salazarismo e as Instituições Internacionais
Portugal e a Europa
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/02/03 - 2026/08/02 Nursing in Mozambique: African nurses, colonial dynamics, and anti-colonial imaginaries (1909-1975)
2023.11331.PEX
10.54499/2023.11331.PEX
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/12/01 - 2024/11/30 PPFP Fellow Rising to the Challenge UC Presidents Postdoctoral Program -- Imperial Whiteness. Post-Dissertation Research and Book Proposal Development
PPFP Fellow - Rising to the Challenge
Post-doc
University of California Los Angeles, United States

University of California Los Angeles Department of History, United States

University of California Los Angeles Center for Afro-American Studies, United States

University of California Office of the President, United States
Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2021/06/01 Configurations of the Human Dissertation Fellowship, Long-term, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
UC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2020/04/01 - 2020/07/01 Black Studies Project, Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, CA, USA.
Black Studies
PhD Student Fellow
2019/01/01 - 2019/06/30 Science Studies Program Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, Winter & Spring 2019. La Jolla, CA, USA
SSP
PhD Student Fellow
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/01 Regents Fellow, University of California, San Diego Department of History and Science Studies Program. La Jolla, CA
UC regents
PhD Student Fellow

Other

Designation Funders
2025/09/01 - 2025/12/31 Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Universidade de São Paulo. Imperial Whiteness: Book Manuscript Development Writing and Research Residency
Nº 49/2024
Principal investigator
Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História, Brazil

Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Concluded
2025/09/07 - 2025/12/18 Imperial Whiteness: Patriarchy, Population, and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1550—1850)
IMP
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2022/07/01 - 2022/09/30 Research Fellow, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, (Philadelphia Library Company, New York Academy of Medicine, Philadelphia College of Physicians, Huntington Library, University of Pennsylvania Special Collections, Yale Medical Library, University of Toronto Special
CHSTM
PhD Student Fellow
2022/07/01 - 2022/09/30 American Philosophical Society, Barra Foundation Fellowship. Short-Term 1 month research residency. Philadelphia, PA. USA.
APS
PhD Student Fellow
2022/07/01 - 2022/08/01 2020 Barbara Rootenberg Library Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences, UCLA Medical Library Special Collections
UCLA special coll
PhD Student Fellow
2022/02/01 - 2022/05/31 Norman Fiering Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, (4-month short-term research residency).
JCB
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2021/11/01 - 2022/02/01 W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, 3 months short-term research residency, Huntington Library. Pasadena, CA, USA.
Huntington
2021/10/01 - 2022/01/01 Short-Term Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Folger
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Branquitude Antes do Conceito: Anacronismo e Precedentes Históricos Através do Caso de Estudo do Colonialismo Português". In Branquitude: Diálogos Latino-Americanos sobre Convivialidade e Desigualdade, edited by Pinho, Patricia de Santana; Cárdenas, Roosbelinda; Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros; Céron-Anaya, Hugo. São Paulo, Brazil: HUCITEC, 2026.
    In press
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Blanquitud antes del concepto. Anacronismo y precedentes históricos a través del estudio de caso del colonialismo portugués". In Branquitudes/Blanquitudes: Diálogos Latino-Americanos sobre la Convivialidad y Desigualdad, edited by Pinho, Patricia de Santana; Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros; Cárdenas, Roosbelinda; Céron-Anaya, Hugo, 35-66. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Mecila/CLACSO, 2025.
    Published
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Mylonakis, Leonidas. "Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking". In A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire, (1700-1900), edited by Candido, Mariana, 103-120. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
    Published
Book review
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome: The Roman Dream of John V of Portugal ed. by Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 3 (2024): 392-395.". 57, 3 (2024): 392-395.
    Published
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850. (Global Health Histories.) 258 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. $75 (cloth); ISBN 9781108491259.". (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/719627.
    Published • 10.1086/719627
Journal article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness: Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History". Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.36.1.127.
    10.3138/ecf.36.1.127
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie". Práticas da História. Journal on Theory Historiogr (2023): No. 16 (2023)-No. 16 (2023). https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/31177.
    10.48487/PDH.2023.N16.31177
  3. Inês Beleza Barreiros; Patrícia Martins Marcos; Pedro Schacht Pereira; Rui Gomes Coelho; Víctor Barros. "Reparar o futuro: mesa-redonda. Repairing the future: rountable". Práticas da História. Journal on Theory Historiogr (2023): N.º 15 (2022)-N.º 15 (2022). https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/30061.
    10.48487/PDH.2022.N15.30061
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Praxis is no Metaphor: Diasporic Knowledges and Maroon Epistemes to Repair the World". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0008.
    10.1353/sec.2023.0008
  5. Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "Blackness ou of Place: Black Countervisuality in Portugal and Its Former Empire". Radical History Review 2022 144 (2022): 106-130. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9847830.
    10.1215/01636545-9847830
  6. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Sarah E. Naramore; Myrna Perez Sheldon; Sarah Pickman; Sarah A. Qidwai; Kathleen Sheppard. "HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series". Isis (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/715711.
    10.1086/715711
  7. Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "Decolonizing Empire: Corporeal Chronologies and the Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Time". (2021): https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/24291.
    10.48487/pdh.2021.n11.24291
Magazine article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro. "Como Reparar a Violência Colonial: Reflexões sobre Descentrar o Império e Reparar o Futuro", Agenda Anual SOS Racismo, 2023
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Rui Gomes Coelho. "The Unbearable Lightness of Anachronism: Practices of Monument-Making and the Guardians of Historical Consensus", GCG: BROJ Issue 3, Magazine for Contemporary Art and Social Issues: From the Citizens to Their City Initiative, 2021
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "A Estética do Facto: Ler as Ciências Contra a Normatividade", Virada, 2020
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "A História e os Narcisos ao Espelho // History and Narcissus Reflected", La Rampa. Art, Life & Beyond , 2020, https://griotmag.com/en/latest-issue-indie-anthology-la-rampa-unearths-history-black-portugal/.
Newspaper article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Fact-Checking colonial: O Salão Nobre e o mito do império simpático", Shifter, 2021, https://shifter.pt/2021/10/fact-checking-colonial/.
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "O colonizador afoito: o museu que Medina fantasiou e as lições que insiste em não aprender", 2020, Opinião
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Interview: Patrícia Martins Marcos sobre estátuas, Black Lives Matter e colonialismo: “Há que evitar o narcisismo do presente e a presunção da nossa eternidade", Shifter, 2020, https://shifter.pt/2020/07/patricia-marcos-estatuas-blm-colonialismo/.
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Rui Gomes Coelho. "O Padre António Vieira no País dos Cordiais", Público, 2020, P2, https://www.publico.pt/2020/02/02/sociedade/noticia/padre-antonio-vieira-pais-cordiais-eterna-leveza-anacronismo-guardiaes-consenso-lusotropical-1902135.
  5. Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Rui Gomes Coelho; Inês Beleza Barreiros; Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "O Padre António Vieira no País dos Cordiais", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/02/02/sociedade/noticia/padre-antonio-vieira-pais-cordiais-eterna-leveza-anacronismo-guardiaes-consenso-lusotropical-1902135.
  6. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "O Magnânimo Museu da Mitologia Colonial", Público, 2018, Opinião
Online resource
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. Four Points Panorama: Carlos Julião c.1780 PODCAST EPISODE. 2021. https://podme.com/fi/jakso/1512096/.
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. Portugal, Race and Memory: a Conversation, a Reckoning Producing the Fiction of Unmarked Whiteness: Unarchiving Race and the Making of Difference in Portugal. 2021. https://www.buala.org/en/to-read/portugal-race-and-memory-a-conversation-a-reckoning.
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Rui Gomes Coelho; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro. A Eterna Leveza do Anacronismo: os guardiães do consenso e o regime da cordialidade. 2020. https://www.buala.org/pt/mukanda/a-eterna-leveza-do-anacronismo-os-guardiaes-do-consenso-e-o-regime-da-cordialidade.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Patrícia, Lino. "O império é (a) sério". Postscript to O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial, 103-115. Lisbon, Portugal: Douda Correria. 2020.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)". PhD, University of California San Diego, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dp9t91f.

Other

Other output
  1. Historical Consultant on Portuguese Imperialism for Human Resources Podcast. Series on the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Broccoli Productions.. 2021. Patrícia Martins Marcos. https://open.spotify.com/show/6DFKmhsCeMdOQUTfShcdx9.
  2. New Books Network interview Atlantic Slavery, Medicine, and Bodies, Prof. Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Virtual History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, October 30 2020.. 2020. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  3. New Books Network interview Roth, Cassia, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil. Stanford University Press, 2020. 2020. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  4. New Books Network Hinchy, Jessica, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 2019. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  5. New Books Network interview Moran, Rachel Louise. Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 2018. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  6. New Books Network interview LaFleur, Greta. The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.. 2018. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  7. New Books Network Chico, Tita, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, 2018. 2018. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  8. New Books Network Otovo, Okezi, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and The State in Brazil, 1850-1945. University of Texas Press, 2016. 2017. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
  9. Podcast Interview Miki, Yuko. Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. Cambridge University Press, 2018.. 2017. Patrícia Martins Marcos.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/09/01 - 2026/05/15 Sheetal Kumari (PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Technology), Andrew Mellon Travel Fellowship, Visiting Scholar, History of Science, Medicine and Technology Special Collections, University of Oklahoma. PhD Thesis: Child Abuse and Trauma in Select Sex Trafficking Narratives: Intervening Commodity, Cultural Ambivalence, and Resilience
Co-supervisor
 History of Science, Medicine and Technology; History of Reproduction (PhD)
The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/05/01 - Current Co-organizer with Roosbelinda Cárdenas (CUNY), Independence without Decolonization: The Settler Colonial Republics of Abya Yala, Latin American Studies Association, May 26-30, Paris. (2026/05/26)
2025/01/06 - Current Co-organized with Benjamin Driver and Mackenzie Cooley panel: “Ancient Sciences in the Academy: Retrospect and Prospect,” Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society, New Orleans, November 13-16. (2025/11/15)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 History of Science Society, United States
2024/12/01 - Current Organizer, “Scientific Genealogies of Whiteness as Natural Norm,” History of Science Society, New Orleans, November 13-16. (2025/11/19) History of Science Society, United States
2023/04/01 - Current Panel Organizer, “Epistemologies of Black Sovereignty,” Brazilian Studies Association, San Diego, April 2024. (2024/04/22)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 BRASA, Brazilian Studies Association, United States
2023/03/01 - Current Panel Co-Organizer, “Racialized Landscapes: Forging the Exotic and Resisting the European Gaze,” Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá, Colombia June 2024. (2024/05/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 LASA, Australia
2023/01/05 - Current Southern California History of Science Graduate Conference (2023/04/14 - 2023/04/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of California Los Angeles, United States
2021/05/01 - Current Organizer, “Racialized Knowledges: Power and the Production of Epistemic Whiteness in Brazil,” Latin American Studies Association—LASA 2022, May 5-8, San Francisco, 2022 (2022/05/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Latin American Studies Association, United States
2020/05/08 - Current Co-Organizer, Conference: “Making Difference: Colonial Hierarchies of Being and the Postcolonial Afterlives of Race, Global Early Modern Race and Empire,” Yearly Conference, UC San Diego, May 8, 2020. (2020/05/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of California San Diego, United States
2020/05/01 - Current Organizer, “Racialized Knowledges: Epistemology, Difference, and the Sciences Beyond Western Teleologies.” History of Science Society, October 2020. (2020/05/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 History of Science Society, United States
2020/03/03 - Current Co-Organizer, Greta LaFleur, Guest Lecture and Student Workshops (support from: UCSD Global Early Modern Group, Science Studies, Critical Gender Studies, Literature Department). (2020/03/03)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of California San Diego, United States
2019/09/01 - 2021/06/30 Co-Organizer, “History of Anthropology: Medicine, Race, and Anti-Blackness,” Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and History of Anthropology Review (2019/09/01 - 2021/06/01) CHSTM - Consortium for the History of Science Technology & Medicine, United States
2019/04/10 - 2019/04/11 Co-Organizer, Science Studies Program Student Choice Speaker and Graduate Conference with Dr. Lorraine Daston, UCSD, April 10-11, 2019. (2019/04/10 - 2019/04/11)
Symposium
 University of California San Diego, United States
2016/05/17 - 2016/05/19 Co-Organizer with Rebecca Hardesty, Science Studies Program Graduate Student Conference, May 17-19, 2016. (2016/05/17 - 2016/05/19)
Symposium
 University of California San Diego, United States

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2026/03/26 - Current “Population is Everything: Overcoming Scarcity and Scientific Mechanisms to Multiply the People in the 18th Century Portuguese Empire,” Scarcity and Its Sciences in the Atlantic, org. Lavinia Maddaluno, Institut D’Études Avancées de Paris, 26 March 2026
Conference
2025/12/15 - Current Guest Lecture: “Medicina, enfermagem e resistência anticolonial em Moçambique,” Seminário e, Educação Profissional em Saúde, Prof. André Dantas, Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, Fiocruz (Rio de Janeiro) em consórcio com o Ministério da Saúde de Moçambique, Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde, Ministério da Saúde de Angola, Ministério da Saúde de São Tomé e Príncipe, 15 december 2025
2025/11/19 - Current “Some Notes on Whiteness and Its Analytic Value in Latin America,” Book launch Roundtable for Blanquitud: Diálogos Latino-Americanos sobre la Convivialidad y Desigualdad, Mecila Center, São Paulo, 19 November, 2025
2025/11/16 - Current Futures Roundtable: Accessibility and the History of Science, History of Science Society, New Orleans, November 16
2025/11/15 - Current “Epistemic Whiteness: Classificatory Discreteness, Polygenism, and the Demise of Early Modern Categories of Being” History of Science Society, New Orleans, November 15
2025/11/08 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “The Historiography of Gender, Sexuality Race and Science,” Graduate Seminar Enlightenments, Prof Íris Kantor, University of São Paulo
2025/11/05 - Current Keynote: “Não Há Anti-Negritude Sem Branquitude: A Curadoria dos Silêncios, Limites do Imaginário e a Pluralidade do Passado”, Conferência Nas Margens, UFBA – Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia (Brazil), 5 November, 2025
Conference
2025/10/02 - Current research talk: “Muitos Casamentos e Poucos Ventres Inúteis: Hacia Una Genealogia del Blanqueamiento como Tecnologia de Expansión del Império Colonial Portugués (1650-1780)”, Coloquio de História Colonial, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina), 2 October, 2025
2025/06/20 - Current Guest Lecture: “The Archives of Empire: Colonialism, Science, and Race,” Guest Lecture for ANT 380: Colonialism, Coloniality, & Decolonization in Latin America, Prof. Roosbelinda Cárdenas, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Summer School, Colonialism Today: Race, Power, & Language in the Hispanic World, Cádiz (Spain) The City University of New York, 20 June 2025
2025/05/07 - Current research talk: “No Hay Antinegritud sin Blanquitud: Hacia una Genealogia del Blanquiamiento Como Método de Gestión Racial en el Imperio Portugués,” Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, la Cátreda Extraordinária Rubén Bonifz Nuño y el Seminário de Estudios para la Descolonización de México, UNAM – Universidad Autónoma de México, 7 May, 2025
2025/04/15 - Current “Marvels, Wonder, and Racialized Interruptions of the Natural Order” Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies (ODSECS), Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol, 15 April 2025
2025/01/05 - Current “Samba da Guerrilha: Intersecting Music, Literature, Politics, and the Colonial Past. A Conversation with Luca Argel,” roundtable, Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, Universidade do Porto, 12 January 2025
Round table
2024/10/02 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Slavery, Antiblackness, and Religion in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire,” Our Guinea: Locating Africa in Early Iberian Archives, Prof. Lexie Cook, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University, October 2, 2024.
2024/10/01 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Confronting the Colonial Archive: Reclaiming Visibility amid Epistemologies of Occlusion in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian World,” Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, October 1, 2024.
2024/06/12 - Current “Imperial Whiteness: Towards an Early Modern Genealogy of Whitening in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Conference, Bogotá (Colombia), June 12-15, 2024
Congress
 LASA
2024/06/10 - Current “Race and White Primacy in the Early Modern Iberian World,” American Socie ty for Portuguese and Spanish Historical Studies, June 10, Lisbon 2024
Conference
2024/04/23 - Current research talk: “Studying Whiteness in Transnational Perspective: Connecting Colonial and Postcolonial Histories of Race in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic,” Department of History, University of California, Irvine, April 23, 2024
2024/04/19 - Current research talk: “Projecting Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Racial Improvement in the 18th Century Amazon,” Colloquium of Latin American Studies, University of California Berkeley, April 19, 2024
2024/04/08 - Current research talk: “Refusing Ethnography: Black Epistemologies of Being and Anti-Colonial Resistance,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, April 8, 2024
2024/03/22 - Current “Unarchiving Race: Imperial Mythmaking and the Occlusion of Raça from the Portuguese Archive,” RoundTable: Portuguese Imperialism and the Archival Turn, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 22 March
Conference
 RSA
2024/02/28 - Current research talk “Nature, Creation, and Hierarchies of the Human: Religion and Science in the Making of Early Modern Race,” History of Science Colloquium, Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara, February 28th, 2024.
2024/02/18 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Subverting the Ideology of Race as Destiny and the Gospel of Germs in Brazil,” HTSM 3563, History of Medicine and Society, Prof. Kathleen Crowther, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma, 18 February 2024
2024/02/16 - Current workshop: “Patriarchal Whiteness: Producing “Better Races” in Portuguese Colonial Projects (1750-1800),” Research Group Colonialismo y Género en la configuración de la globalización moderna (XVI-XVIII), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, February 16, 2024.
2024/02/14 - Current research talk: “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race, and Projects of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1750-1800),” GRIMSE-ECERM Seminar (Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies, and Research Group Ethnographies, Cultural Encounters and Religious Missions), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), February 14, 2024.
2024/01/07 - Current “Confessional Race: Blood Purity, Religion, and the Making of Human Rank in the Early Modern Iberian World.” Conference of Latin American History – American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 7
2024/01/06 - Current “Performing Epistemic Resistance: Countervisual Quilombismo and the Black Refusal of Archival Silences,” Panel: 238. The Body in Latin American History, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 6
Congress
 AHS
2023/11/12 - Current “The Latent Man: Fixing Sex to Anatomy and the Government of Reproductive Futurity,” History of Science Society, Portland, OR, November 12
Conference
2023/10/23 - Current Public Lecture: “Salão Nobre da Assembleia da República: Devemos Deixar o Colonialismo Perdurar?” with Joacine Katar Moreira, Museu da Cidade Lisboa, October 23, 2021. (Portugal)
2023/10/09 - Current Research Talk: “True Sex”: Adjudicating Gender and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Portuguese Atlantic (1740-1790),” History of Science Colloquium, UCLA, October 9, 2023. History of Science Colloquium, UCLA, October 9, 2023
2023/07/14 - Current “Racing Religion: Blood Purity, Religion, and the Nature of Human Rank in the Early Modern Period,” International Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society – INSBS 4th Annual Conference, University of Exeter, (UK), 14 July
Conference
2023/06/08 - Current “Resistir (Sobre)Vivendo: Quotidianos Africanos e Sincretismo como Práxis Anticolonial,” Simpósio VII – Resistance; Resistências Culturais nos Impérios Ibéricos 1500-1850, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cape Verde. June 8
Conference
2023/06/05 - Current “A História e os seus Públicos: O Poder e o (Des)naturalizar de Narrativas Hegemónicas,” I Congresso de História Pública de Portugal, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon. June 5
2023/05/26 - Current “Redemption through Whiteness: “Miscegenation” and the Long History of White Patriarchal Power in (Post)Colonial Brazil,” Latin American Studies Conference. Vancouver, May 26, 2023.
2023/05/12 - Current “Performing Gender or the Anatomy of Sex: Maria Duran at the Inquisition,” 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2023.
2023/04/24 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Whiteness, Anti-Imperial Resistance, and Portuguese Decolonization in Africa,” Migration and the Making of Modern Europe, 1792 to the Present, Noelle Turtur, UCLA, April 24, 2023.
2023/04/12 - Current Keynote Address: “Rearing Better Races: Portuguese Colonialism and the Sciences of Labor Supply in the Empire of White Patriarchs (1720s-1800),” Race, Power, and Resistance Speaker Series, Department of History, California State University – Dominguez Hills, April 12, 2023.
2023/04/12 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Attending to the Unsaid: Writing about the History of Race as Resistance, Recovery, and Care Praxis,” History 300 – Race and Historical Methods, Christopher Monty, California State University – Dominguez Hills, April 12, 2023
2023/03/25 - Current “Inventing the White Empire: Race and Gender in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic Beyond Nation-State Paradigms,” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents – Charting the Future, A Symposium, St. Louis University-Madrid Campus (Spain). 25 March, 2023
2023/02/17 - Current Research Talk: “Many Marriages and no Useless Wombs’: Race, the Sciences of Reproduction and White Patriarchy in Portuguese Imperial Projects,” Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, February 17, 2023.
2023/01/23 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “History is a Thing We Write: Afro-Indigenous Pasts and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Knowledge in Action,” History of Brazil, Prof. Cassie Osei, Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), January 25, 2023
2023/01/11 - Current Research Talk: “Keeping in their Homes Slaves, some whiter than they are:” Inventing the Population and Crafting Imperial Whiteness in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1750s-1800s),” Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, January 11, 2023.
2022/11/04 - Current Public Lecture: “A Branquitude como Legado: Mitos de Excepcionalismo Racial em Portugal e no Brasil” Descentrar o Império; Reparar o Futuro, Culturgest, Lisboa, Novembro 4, 2022.
2022/10/09 - Current “Fronteiras Entre o Animal e o Humano: Práticas de Classificação e Cultural Visual da Raça nas Ciências Humanas Setecentistas,” Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Mundo Atlántico en la Modernidad Temprana c. 1500-1800, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, 9 October, 2022
2022/05/07 - Current “Universal Occlusions: Power and the Production of Silences in Afro-Luso-Brazilian History,” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco. May 7, 2022.
2022/04/26 - Current Research Talk “Racial Capitalism and Museums: Scientific Impulses of Accumulation and Extinction,” Science, Capitalism and Knowledge Commodities Group, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, April 26, 2022.
2022/03/31 - Current “Disembodied Enlightenment as Epistemic Whiteness: Conceptual Categories of Mind and the Elision of Race in Eighteenth-Century Studies,” Association for Eighteenth Century Studies, Baltimore, 31 March 2022.
Conference
2022/02/17 - Current “Diseases of Slavery: Pathological Environments, Race, and the Production of Human Vulnerability,” Panel: Epidemics in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, American Historical Association, New Orleans, 17 February 2022.
2022/02/15 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Erasing Africa, Silencing Colonial Violence: Systemic Racism, Visual Culture, and Diasporic Activism in Portugal,” PORTG 315 – Portuguese Civilization: History through the Arts, Prof. Patrícia Martinho Ferreira, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 15 February 2022.
2022/01/08 - Current “Racial Capitalism and Portuguese Colonial Fictions of Universalism,” Session: 550 The Ends of Lusotropical Consensus, Modern Language Association, Washington D. C., January 8, 2022.
Congress
 MLA
2021/12/08 - Current Roundtable: “Science, Racism, and Colourism in the Modern World—Building a Bibliography,” with Nathan Bossoh, John T. Shorter, Mobeen Hussain, and Santiago Guzmán, VirtualSTM, December 8, 2021.
2021/11/25 - Current “Racialized Knowledges: Manipulating Nature, Blackness, and Epistemic Disciplining in the Portuguese Inquisition.” History of Science Society, November 2021
2021/11/18 - Current “Perfect and Without Defect: Reproductive Futurity and Same-Sex Desire,” Seminar on the History of Gender and Sexuality, University of Texas – Austin, 18 November 2021.
Symposium
2021/10/07 - Current Session Moderator and Respondant: “Session 5: Maternal Health,” Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond, 2021 Lapidus Center Conference, October 7th, 2021.
2021/08/18 - Current Research Colloquium Talk: “Science Fictions: Racial Capitalism, Visuality, and Imperial Fantasies of Natural Accumulation,” Colloquium, Berlin Museum of Natural History, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Kunstkammer), August 18, 2021.
2021/07/21 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Black Bodies, White Skins: Slavery, Antisemitic Blood Purity, and Dreams of Indigenous Extinction in the History of Portuguese Colonialism.” Science and the Subjects of Empire, Dr. Sarah Qidwai, University of Toronto, July 21, 2021.
2021/07/13 - Current “Quality, Imbecillitas, and Hierarchies of Humankinds Anatomies of Skin Color & Race in the Early Modern Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic,” British Society for the History of Science, July 13, 2021.
Conference
2021/05/25 - Current Fellow Research Talk: “Skeletons of Knowledge: Race-Making, the Accumulation of Bodies, and the Sciences of Humankinds,” Lunchtime Lecture Series, American Philosophical Society, May 25, 2021
2021/05/20 - Current Rountable and Research Talk: “Situating Histories of the Body: A Discussion with Jen Manion and Patrícia Martins Marcos,” Virtual HisSTM, May 20, 2021.
2021/04/26 - Current “Blood Purity as Unmarked Whiteness: Intersecting Disability, Religion, and Medicine in Premodern Race-Making in the Portuguese Atlantic,” The Histories of Race Graduate Workshop, Cambridge University. Easter Term, April 26, 2021.
Symposium
2021/04/23 - Current Guest Author Talk with Colloquium: “Decolonizing Empire and Portuguese (Post)Colonialisms,” Claimed Pasts: Theory Reading Group, Universitet i Agder (Norway), April 23, 2021. (Seminar about my article “Decolonizing Empire,” 2019).
2021/04/16 - Current “Enslaved Bodies and Natural Bondage: Skin Color, Complexion, and the Anatomy of Race in the Portuguese Atlantic,” LUCAS Bodies Matter Conference, Leiden University, April 16, 2021.
Conference
2021/04/08 - Current “Decolonizing the Eighteenth-Century: Corporeal Chronologies, Disciplinary Scaffolds, and Long Unlearning of Coloniality,” How to Decolonize ASECS?: Roundtable, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 8, 2021.
Conference
2021/03/24 - Current Research Talk: “Postcolonial Traumatic Disorder: The Politics of Time, Race-Making, and Empire,” Portugal, Race, and Memory: A Conversation, A Reckoning, The Ohio State University. March 24, 2021.
2021/03/01 - Current Author's Roundatble: “Dipesh Chakrabarty in Conversation with the editors and authors of Práticas da História.” Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, March 1, 2021.
2021/02/22 - Current Seminar Talk: “Corporeal Chronologies and the Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Time, Colonial/Postcolonial New Researcher’s Workshop,” Imperial and World History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research (United Kingdom), February 22, 2021.
2021/02/03 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “Medical Technologies of Difference: Visuality and the Production of Somatic Race,” SOCI 30 – Science, Technology, and Society, Chad Valasek, Winter 2021, UC, San Diego. February 3, 2021
2020/11/25 - Current Research Talk “Bridging Divides: Inscribing Racialized Bodies into the Narratives of Science Medicine, and Beyond,” History of Science Institute, Center for Historical Research, November 25, 2020
2020/11/07 - Current Respondent: Article Workshop for Witnesses of Freedom: Memory and Testimony as Counterarchive in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Article: John C. Marquez, “Witnesses of Freedom: Paula’s Enslavement, Her Family’s Freedom, and the Making of a Counterarchive in the South Atlantic World,” Hispanic American Historical Review 101, no. 2, (May 2021). Invited Discussant. University of California, Irvine, November 7, 2020.
2020/10/10 - Current “Perfect and Without Defect: Medicalizing the Body and the Sciences of Sapphic Desire, History of Science Society/Society for the History of Technology,” HSS/SHOT, October 10, 2020.
Conference
2020/10/08 - Current “Corporeal Chronologies: Racialized Time and the Embodiment of Eternal Past” Panel: Is Deep History White?,” History of Science Society & Society for the History of Technology, October 8, 2020.
Conference
2020/03/17 - Current Respondent: “Confessional Race: Nature, Skin Color, and Religion in Portuguese Colonial Hierarchies of Being. Roundtable discussion: “Studying Race in the Pre-Modern Period,” Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, March 17, 2020.
2019/02/04 - Current “Medicine, Race, and Preventing Disease in the Tropics,” HILD 30 – History of Public Health, Prof. Claire Edington, History Department, UC San Diego
2018/04/18 - Current GUEST LECTURE: “New World Peoples and the Imaginary of Indigenous Extinction,” HILA 14 -Film and History in Latin America, Prof. Benjamin Cowan. University of California, San Diego, April 18, 2018.
2026/07/05 - 2026/07/07 “Civilizing the Sertões: Uncultivated Abundance, Population Scarcity, Race and Human Development,” Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Salvador da Bahia 5-7 July 2026.
Conference
2025/06/25 - 2026/06/28 “Nursing Independence in Colonial Mozambique,” European Conference on African Studies, Prague, 25-28 June
Congress
2026/05/26 - 2026/05/31 ¿Cómo hacer un podcast sobre Blanquidad en América Latina? Diálogos sobre el podcast, Mundo Blanco. Roundtable, Latin American Studies Association, Paris, May 26-30, 2026
2026/05/26 - 2026/05/30 “Recapitulating Empire: the Brazilian nation-state as a (settler) colonial project,” Latin American Studies Association, Paris, May 26-30, 2026 LASA
2026/05/26 - 2026/05/30 “Branquitudes/Blanquitudes: Diálogos latinoamericanos sobre convivialidad y desigualdad” roundtable & book presentation session, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Paris, May 26-30, 2026
2025/04/24 - 2026/04/26 ““Blood Defects” and the “Infectious Races”: Disease and the Racial Scripts of Religious Difference in the Early Modern Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic,” SECOLAS – Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Instituto Mora, Mexico City, April 24-26
Conference
2026/04/07 - 2026/04/07 Research Talk: “The Uncertain Corporeal Quality of her Sex: Female Same-Sex Desire and Gender Hierarchies in Archives of the Portuguese Inquisition”, Medical Humanities Seminar, University of Oklahoma, April 7, 2026
Symposium
2026/02/17 - 2026/02/21 “Thinking Early Modern Race Beyond the English Canon,” Folger Fellowships: Beyond Shakespeare, The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February 19–21, 2026

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/11/30 PhD Dissertation Committee Member (External Departmental Member), Stopping Short on Thinking “Normative” Desire, Kyle Callan, PhD in Sociology, University of Oklahoma
(Thesis) Arguer
 Kyle Callan (PhD)
The University of Oklahoma Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/05/01 - 2025/06/30 Book Series Imagining Black Europe Book Proposal Reviewer Peter Lang
2024/08/21 - 2024/10/06 Endeavour(History and Philosophy of Science) (1873-1929) Elsevier
2023/07/01 - 2023/08/01 Varia História (1982-4343) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2023/06/01 - 2023/07/10 Hispanic American Historical Review (00182168) Duke University Press
2023/02/01 - 2023/04/01 Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV: História Moderna (1131-768X)
2023/02/01 - 2023/03/01 Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (2183-590X.) 1
2022/08/01 - 2022/10/01 Endeavour (History and Philosophy of Science)
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/01 Journal of Luso-Brazilian Studies (00247413) University of Winsconsin Press

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/06/01 - Current History of Science Society Co-Chair of Early Sciences Forum, Jury Best Early Modern Science Prize and Elected Early Career Representative (2023-2025)
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Early Career Representative, History of Science Society (Elected) Early Career Representative
2019/09/01 - 2022/06/01 Elected Graduate Student Representative, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Sciences, History of Science Society. Graduate Representative
2022/01/01 - 2022/03/01 Nomitated for Election of Early Career Representative, Renaissance Society of America Early Career Representative (nominated, not elected)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - Current Co-Organizer, Research Consortium and Partnership, University of Toronto. Research partnership between UCSD’s Science Studies Program and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), University of Toronto
Coordinator
 University of California San Diego, United States

University of Toronto, Canada
2025/09/01 - 2026/01/01 Nominated Candidate, Early Career Representative, Conference for Latin American History
Coordinator
 CLAH Conference of Latin American History, United States
2024/09/01 - 2025/04/30 ACLS Intention Foundry Incubator, Collaboratory on Data Storytelling
Member
 American Council of Learned Societies, United States
2023/09/01 - 2024/05/01 The ACLS Intention Foundry, A Forum to Accelerate Equity, Inclusion, and Structural Change in the Academy
Member
 American Council of Learned Societies, United States

History of Science Society, United States
2022/09/01 - 2023/06/30 Mellon-ACLS Intention Foundry on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. Design of actionable plans for DEI in academia, conferences, and professional societies. Participant nominated by the History of Science Society American Council of Learned Societies, United States

History of Science Society, United States
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Committee Member, Inclusive and Transparent Governance Review Initiative, History of Science Society.
Member
 History of Science Society, United States
2020/09/01 - 2021/06/30 Graduate Student Representative, Science Studies Program
Member
 University of California San Diego, United States
2020/09/01 - 2021/06/30 Committee to Review Science Studies Policies and Practices on Anti-Racism Pedagogies and Curricula, Science Studies Program, UC San Diego.
Member
 History of Science Society, United States

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025/12/27 - 2026/02/01 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
2020/06/01 - 2022/10/01 Co-Organizer and Co-curator, “Descentrar o Império: Reparar o Futuro, Decentering Empire Repairing the Future.” Culturgest, Lisbon 4 November 2022. Culturgest, Lisboa

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2026/05/01 - 2026/07/31 History of Blood: From Genesis to Genomic (Graduate Seminar), Department of Information Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2026/05/01 - 2026/07/31 Producing Human Hierarchies: Sources, Archives, Methods (Graduate Seminar), Department of Information Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2026/01/19 - 2026/05/08 HSTM Graduate Seminar: Medicine, Health, and the Sciences of Humanity (Postgraduate Certificate) The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States
2026/01/15 - 2026/05/08 HSTM 3263 History of Public Health (Bachelor) The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States
2025/01/06 - 2026/05/01 HSTM 3253 Race & Science, Spring Semester 2025
2021/06/01 - 2021/07/01 HILA 121A - History of Brazil Through 1889, University of California, San Diego University of California San Diego, United States
2020/07/01 - 2020/08/01 HILD 30 – History of Public Health, University of California, San Diego University of California San Diego, United States
2018/09/27 - 2019/12/11 Teaching Assistant, HICS 116, History of Bioethics, Prof. Cathy Gere (Fall 2018). University of California San Diego, United States
2018/03/28 - 2018/06/16 Teaching Assistant HILA 14, Film and History in Latin America, Prof. Benjamin Cowan (Spring 2018) University of California San Diego, United States
2017/07/01 - 2017/07/31 Teaching Assistant HIEU 109, Nationalism in Europe, Dr. James Stout (Summer 2017). University of California San Diego, United States
2016/09/16 - 2016/12/14 teaching assistant Historical Encounters Between Science and Religion, Prof. Robert Westman University of California San Diego, United States
2016/04 - 2016/06/20 Teaching Assistant HIEU 137, New Imperialism to Decolonization, Prof. Claire Edington (Spring 2016) University of California San Diego, United States
2016/03/30 - 2016/06/15 Teaching Assistant HILD 30, History of Public Health, Prof. Claire Edington & Dr. Wendy Gonaver(Winter & Spring 2016, Winter & Spring 2017). University of California San Diego, United States
2016/01/03 - 2016/03/15 Teaching Assistant, HILD 30, History of Public Health, Prof. Claire Edington & Dr. Wendy Gonaver, (Winter & Spring 2016, Winter & Spring 2017). University of California San Diego, United States

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2025/05/28 interviewee for BBC News Brasil for the story: "Portugal Colônia do Brasil? Como a influência brasileira gera tensão no país BBC Brazil
2020/07/16 “Patrícia Martins Marcos sobre estátuas, Black Lives Matter e colonialismo: “Há que evitar o narcisismo do presente e a presunção da nossa eternidade,” Shifter, Lisbon, July 16 2020. (Portugal). shifter

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2026/03/03 - Current Interview. Podcast Episode: “Reflexionemos la blanquedad en Latinoamérica,” Organizers Dra. Gisela Carlos Fregoso (Universidad de Guadalajara), Dr. Hugo Cerón Anaya (Legith University), Dr. Fe Navarrete (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/04/01 - Current History of Anthropology Review (2691-8161)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2025/03/01 - Current Faculty Mentor, African American Student Group, University of Oklahoma multiple students
2024/04/01 - Current Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Chase Caldwell Smith -- UCLA
2023/01/01 - Current UCLA Claire Votava Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Claire Votava
2022/07/01 - Current Mishika Parikh, Master of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University Mishika Parikh
2022/01/01 - Current Mag Spaulding (UCLA) Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Margaret Spaulding

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2026/06/01 - 2026/06/01 Jury Member, Best Essay in Early Science, Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States

Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society, United States
2025/04/01 - 2025/05/01 Jury member, Best Early Sciences Article, Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society and Journal Early Science and Medicine History of Science Society, United States
2024/04/01 - 2024/06/01 Jury member, Best Early Sciences Article, Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society and Journal Early Science and Medicine History of Science Society, United States

Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society, United States
2024/03/01 - 2024/04/01 Jury Member, History of Science Society Summer School, Bologna June 2025 History of Science Society, United States
2023/04/01 - 2023/05/01 Jury member, Best Early Sciences Article, Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society and Journal Early Science and Medicine History of Science Society, United States

Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society, United States
2022/12/07 - 2022/12/10 Jury member, Making and Doing Competition, 4S - Society for the Social Studies of Science, 7-10 December 2022, Cholula (Mexico). 4S - Society for the Social Studies of Science, United States
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/08 Jury Best Essay Prize, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Science, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States
2022/06/01 - 2022/06/30 Jury member, Best Early Sciences Article, Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society and Journal Early Science and Medicine History of Science Society, United States

Early Sciences Forum, History of Science Society, United States
2022/04/01 - 2022/05/31 Jury Member, First History of Science Society Summer School, 2023 History of Science Society, United States
2021/06/01 - 2021/06/30 Jury Best Essay Prize, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Sciences, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States
2020/06/01 - 2020/06/30 Jury, Best Essay Prize, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Sciences, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States
2019/06/01 - 2019/06/30 Jury Best Essay Prize, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Sciences, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States
2018/06/01 - 2018/06/30 Jury Best Essay Prize, Forum for the History of Health, Medicine, and the Life Sciences, History of Science Society History of Science Society, United States
Distinctions

Award

2023 University of California Los Angeles Chancelor’s Postdoctoral Research of Excellence Award. Department of History
University of California Los Angeles, United States
2013 Fulbright Fellow
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal