Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

marronage, women-led land-based struggles in the Américas, quilombolas, and Black geographies

Biography, Education and Training

I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. Student in the Latin American and Latino Studies program, originally from southern Brazil. I received my B.A. in Psychology from the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2022. 

Membership & Affiliations

• Black Geographies Lab, UCSC
• Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
• Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros (ABPN)

Honors, Awards and Grants

• James R. Scobie Award, Conference on Latin American History, CLAH (Spring '24)
• Graduate Student Award, UCSC Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Américas (Fall '23)
• Dean's Travel Grant, UCSC (Spring '23)
• Routes of Enslavement in the Americas Research Grant, UC MRPI (Spring '23)
• Brazilian Initiation Fellowship, BRASA (Spring '23)
• Regents Fellowship, UCSC (Fall '22)

Selected Publications

Article

A universidade como espaço de luta: as experiências políticas de jovens militantes de Porto Alegre (RS), with Camila B. Liebgott & Samantha M. Ferreira. 2022. Cadernos de Pós-graduação (Uninove) 21(2): 59-73.

Book Chapter

Acolhimento emocional na delegacia especializada no atendimento à mulher (DEAM): relato de experiência, with Anna Júlia Carrión & Clarissa De Antoni. 2021. In Contribuições da psicologia para enfrentamento à violência contra mulheres: aportes teóricos e práticos, edited by L. Habigzang, & J. Zamora. Dialética.

Selected Presentations

Panel Presentations

• "Between Black Roots and Asphalt: Quilombola Political Struggles in Porto Alegre and West Pará." XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, April 3-6, 2024, San Diego State University, CA.

Invited Talks

• "Gender and sexuality in the Brazilian context: dialogues with social activists from the feminist and LGBT+ movements." Graduate Seminar on Youth and Political Action, Education Graduate Program, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2022 (Virtual).
• "Priority Vaccination of Indigenous and Quilombola Communities." National Directory of Medical Students, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2021 (Virtual).

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistant Experience

• Latin American & Latino Studies Department
  
  • LALS194T/L: Youth & Citizenship
  • LALS194E/L: Unfree Migrations
  • LALS151: Race & Mobility
  • LALS100A/L: Research in LALS
  • LALS79: Hip Hop History
  • LALS15: Truth, Justice, and Statistics
  • LALS10: Introduction to Chicanx & Latinx Studies
  • LALS 1: Introduction to LALS
• Feminist Studies Department
  • FMST19: Black Feminisms: An Introduction