Members
Professors and researchers
Eunice Sueli Nodari
General coordinator
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina - SC
She has a degree in History from the University of Passo Fundo (1976), a Master in History (European) from the University of California at Davis (1992), and a PhD in History (Brazil) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1999). Post-Doctorate at Stanford University - USA (August 2015 to February 2016), and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (March to July 2016). She is an associate researcher at the Spatial History Project - CESTA / Stanford University. Since 2016 she is a full professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, having joined in 1993. She was coordinator of the Graduate Program in History at UFSC (2010-2015). Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Human Sciences - Interinstitutional UFSC / UNIVALE (since 2017) Sub-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences (2018-) Master and Doctoral Advisor in the Graduate Program in History and the Graduate Program Interdisciplinary Graduation in Human Sciences. Takes courses in undergraduate and graduate courses on Environmental History and the environment and society. It operates in a network with KTH - Sweden and CESTA / Stanford. Since 2010 she is the coordinator responsible for the organization of the International Symposium on Environmental History and Migration (biannual event). She has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis on Environmental History, acting mainly on the following themes: Global Environmental History, vitiviniculture, socio-environmental disasters, environmental migrations , forests; biodiversity and spatial history.
Juan Facundo Rojas
Regional coordinator - Argentina
Argentina
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters - National University of Cuyo
IANIGLA-CONICET
frojas@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar / facundoroj@gmail.com
He holds a doctorate in Geography from the National University of Cuyo (2013). Completed postdoctoral academic stays at the University of Barcelona (2017) and at the University of Innsbruck (2019). He is Professor of Epistemology of Geography, Geographic Information Systems II and Secretary of the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of Cuyo. His main investigations are carried out as Assistant Researcher of the Environmental History Group of the Argentine Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Sciences (IANIGLA) -CONICET. He is the researcher responsible for PICTO UNCuyo 2016-0012 (Scientific and Technological Oriented Research Project: “Environmental problems and socio-historical reconfigurations. Conflicts, controversies and agendas on the 'environmental issue' in Mendoza”). He is a member of SOLCHA and CLACSO's Political Ecology Group. Specialist in geography and environmental history, geotechnologies and political ecology.
Zephyr Frank
Regional Coordinator - United States
United States
Stanford University
brazilhistory@gmail.com / zfrank@stanford.edu
Zephyr Frank is Professor of History and Director of the Urban Studies Program. He is also the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). His research interests focus on Brazilian social and cultural history, the study of wealth and inequality, and the digital humanities. Operates in undergraduate and graduate courses. He has a broad curriculum with publications of articles, book chapters and his most recent work was Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 2016).
Rubens Onofre Nodari
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics - University of California at Davis (1992). He held a Senior Internship at the University of California, at Berkeley (2016-2017), was a Visiting Researcher at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich – Germany (2019-2020). He is a full professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In the Postgraduate Program in Plant Genetic Resources, he teaches the subjects Conservation of Genetic Resources, Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Population Genetics. Over the last 20 years, they have been conducting studies and advising undergraduate and graduate students related to (i) Domestication of Acca sellowiana, (ii) genetics and plant breeding, (iii) phylogeny and phylogeography of autochthonous plants and (iv) biosafety and biohazards of GMOs. He is part of the vine and wine research network, working in genetics and vine breeding to combine disease resistance and wine quality. Partnerships with Epagri researchers, Julius KühnInstitut. JKI (Germany) and the Edmunch Mach Foundation (Italy) have provided the exchange of knowledge and germplasm of the Piwi varieties.
Carla Pires Vieira da Rocha
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Post-doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Post-Doctorate at VU - Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam / Netherlands), through the CAPES-NUFFIC program (2019). PhD in Human Sciences by the Interdisciplinary Program in Human Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2017), with sandwich internship at VU - Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam / Netherlands). Master in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2009), Specialization in Food and Society / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2012), Specialization in Museology / Cultural Heritage / UFRGS (2005) and Bachelor of Visual Arts with qualification in Photography by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2002). He works in research, mainly related to the following themes related to Food: Sustainability / Sustainable Practices, Sustainable Vitiviniculture, Globalization, Communication, Consumption, Migration. Researcher at NAVI / UFSC - Center for Audiovisual Anthropology and Image Studies.
Samira Peruchi Moretto
Brazil
Federal University of Fronteira Sul
Graduated in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2007), Master in History from the same University (2010), PhD in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2014), with a sandwich period at California State University, Long Beach (2013) . She is an effective professor of the History Course and the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul. Currently, she coordinates the Postgraduate Program in History at PPGH / UFFS. She is part of the CNPq Research Groups: Laboratory of Immigration, Migration and Environmental History, LABIMHA / UFSC (researcher) and Borders: UFFS Environmental History Laboratory (leader). Researcher on the following themes: Environmental History, Domestication and Introduction of plant species, Deforestation, Reforestation, Biodiversity Conservation and History of Brazil Republic.
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Marcos Gerhardt
Brazil
University of Passo Fundo - RS
Graduated in History (1992) from UNIJUÍ, Specialization in History from the same University (1997), Master in History from the State University of Londrina (2002) and PhD in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2013). He is currently a professor at the University of Passo Fundo (UPF), integrates the Nucleus of Historical Studies of the Rural World (NEHMuR) and participates in a research project of the Laboratory of Immigration, Migration and Environmental History (www.labimha.ufsc.br) at UFSC . Has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis on Environmental History, History of the Rural World, immigration and forest conservation.
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Antonio José Alves de Oliveira
Brazil
Federal University of Ceará
Doctorate in History in the Program of Pos-graduation in Global History in the University Federal of Santa Catarina (UFSC) with Doctorate Sandwich in the Faculdade de Letras of University of Porto (FLUP). Scolarship from CAPES. Graduation in History from Universidade Federal do Ceará (2011) and Master in History from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2014). Has experience in History, focusing on History of Cartography and Environmental History in Colonial Brazil, mainly researches about the ideas, the values and the perceptions and readings of the Natural and the Social World in the portuguese overseas possessions in the Second Half of the XVIIIth century, mainly the captaincies of the North in Portuguese America. Associate Reseacher in Port-Al-Hist - International Academic Network for German-Portuguese Research.
Marlon Brandt
Brazil
Federal University of Fronteira Sul - SC
Graduated in Bachelor and Degree in History from the State University of Santa Catarina (2004) and Bachelor in Bachelor and Degree in Geography from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2004), Master in Geography from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2007) and doctorate in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2012). Professor of the Geography - Licentiate course, the Postgraduate Program in History and the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul. He has experience in the area of Geography and History, acting mainly on the following themes: historical geography, environmental history, traditional populations, colonization, timber industry and fruit growing.
Miguel Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho
Brazil
Federal University of Fronteira Sul - SC
Degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2000-2004), Master in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2004-2006) and Doctorate in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2006-2010), with a doctoral internship from University of Kansas (USA). Postdoctoral in History at the University of Guelph - Canada (2016). Since 2011 he has been a professor of history at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Laranjeiras do Sul-Paraná campus. He is a permanent professor at the Masters in History (UFFS) and Masters in Agroecology and Sustainable Rural Development (UFFS), where he teaches the subject of Environmental History. Master's Advisor. At Undergraduate, he teaches the subjects of History of the Southern Frontier and History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Nature. Research topics: environmental history, deforestation, Araucaria angustifolia, Araucaria forest, history of industrial pig farming, history and animals, history of agricultural modernization, vegetarianism and veganism.
Pedro de Alcântara Bittencourt César
Brasil
Universidade de Caxias do Sul
bittencourt_tur@yahoo.com.br
Doutor em Geografia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2007), Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela Universidade de Taubaté (1989), mestre em Planejamento e Gestão em Turismo Ambiental e Cultura pelo Centro Universitário Ibero Americano (2002) e especialista em Planejamento e Marketing Turístico (SENAC-SP, 2000) e com pós-doutoramento em História pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul. Docente com Bolsa Produtividade CNPq. Docente do Corpo Permanente no Mestrado e Doutorado em Turismo e Hospitalidade da Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS). Professor Visitante do Centro de Investigações sobre Espaços e Organizações da Universidade do Algarve (CIEO-UAlg) e professor tutor na Universidad Autonóma del Estado de México. Coordenador da Conferência TurHist (UCS/Brasil-UAlg/Portugal) com ênfase a pesquisa na área de Patrimônio Cultural e o Enoturismo.
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Vania Beatriz Merlotti Herédia
Brasil
Universidade de Caxias do Sul
vbmhered@ucs.br
Doutora em História pela Universidade de Gênova e Pós-doutora em História Econômica pela Universidade de Padova (2002) e em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2013). Professora Titular do Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Turismo e Hospitalidade e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História. Membro da Associazione Italiana per il patrimonio archeologico industriale (AIPAI) e correspondente dell'Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza na classe di Diritto, Economia e Amministrazione. Coordena o Núcleo de Pesquisa Estudos Migratórios CNPq-UCS (1993-2021) e participa do Grupo de Estudos Urbanos (CNPq-UCS). Autora de vários livros acerca da industrialização da zona de colonização italiana, história econômica do município de Caxias do Sul, migrações internacionais, históricas e recentes.
Facundo Damián Martín
Argentina
National University of Cuyo
fdmartingarcia@gmail.com / fmartin@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Specialist in rural studies, political water ecology, environmental history and digital humanities. Adjunct researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) with work at INCIHUSA CCT Mendoza and regular professor at Department of Geography, National University of Cuyo. Agronomist from UNCuyo, Master in Agrarian Social Studies from FLACSO / Buenos Aires, Doctor from the University of Buenos Aires in Social Sciences and Diploma in University Teaching from UBA-CLACSO-FEDUBA. He is currently studying the Postdoctoral Program in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 2006 he has received several scholarships to study in the country (doctoral and postdoctoral scholarship from CONICET and initiation to research by UNCuyo), as well as to carry out academic stays abroad (Brazil, Germany, Colombia, United States): for CONICET young researchers, UNCuyo International Teaching Mobility Scholarship, Red desiguALities Scholarship, German Ministry of Education and Research Scholarship (BMBF) - GLOCON Project (FU Berlin), Fulbright-CONICET Scholarship for Young Researchers (UCONN History).
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Marina Miraglia
Argentina
National University of General Sarmiento
Graduated in Geography from the University of Buenos Aires (1983), PhD in Geography from the same University in 2013. She is an associate professor and director of the Specialization in Thematic Cartography Applied to Spatial Analysis at the National University of General Sarmiento in the Area of Geographic Information Technologies and Spatial Analysis of the Conurbano Institute. She is a researcher on the following themes: Environmental History, Geographic Information Technologies, Historical Cartography, Toponymy. She is a member of SOLCHA and editor of the HALAC magazine of Environmental History.
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Juan Manuel Cerdá
Argentina
National University of Quilmes
Graduated in History at the University of La Plata (2001), Master in Contemporary History of Europe and Latin America at the University Torcuato Di Tella (2008), specialist in Statistics Applied to Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Socials Institute of Sciences of Economic and Social Development (2009) and doctorate from the National University of Quilmes. Mention in Social and Human Sciences (2009). He has been a researcher at CONICET since 2010 and at the Argentine Rural Studies Center at the National University of Quilmes. He has a doctorate in history, supervising a master's and doctorate. He is a researcher on issues of economic and social history, with an emphasis on viticulture.
Eugenia Molina
Argentina
National University of Cuyo
PhD in History (National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina), effective holder of Argentine History I at UNCuyo and independent researcher at CONICET. She specializes in the study of State processes (18th and 19th centuries) from the perspective of the social history of justice and government, incorporating the problems related to the processes of territorialization and political spatialization as an explanatory key. An extensive production published in magazines and collective works, national and foreign, has incorporated in recent years the issue of water and soil management in the framework of the transitions between the viticultural and livestock models in 19th century Mendoza. See the profile at Academia.edu.
Florencia Rodríguez Vazquez
Argentina
CONICET, Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA)
frodriguezv@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Comunicadora Social (UNCuyo) e doutora em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Nacional de Quilmes. Investigadora Adjunta do CONICET no Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Ambientais (INCIHUSA). Dirige e integra projetos (CONICET y UNCuyo) sobre história econômica e social em Mendoza. Autora de Educação e Vitivinicultura (Prohistoria, 2012). Tem publicado sobre ensino e tecnologias agrícolas e diversificação produtiva en Cuyo (Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, 2016; Apuntes, 2019; História Econômica & História de Empresas, 2020).
Curriculo
Alcides Beretta Curi
Uruguai
Universidad de la República
Graduado em Ciências Históricas (Universidade da República), Doutor en História da América (Universidade de Barcelona). Investigador do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares Latino-Americanos “Profa. Lucía Sala (Faculdade de Humanidades e Ciências da Educação, Udelar) e ex-Director deste Centro (2005-2012). A pesquisa que desenvolve aborda diversos temas no período histórico de 1870 a 1914: imigração europeia e inovação no meio urbano e rural; elite "terrateniente" e organização corporativa: a Asociação Rural do Uruguai e o desenvolvimento da agricultura; imigração europeia e oficinas artesanais em Montevideo. As publicações sobre o tema vitivinícola compreendem vários artígos, livros, capítulos de livros e a organização de sete simpósios e congressos. A obra de maior importância é a Historia de viña y el vino de Uruguay (1870-2000), em oito volumes, dos quais estão publicados os três primeiros e o quarto se encontra em processo de edição pela Universidade da República.
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Wladimir Mejía Ayala
Colômbia
Universidade Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
wladimir.mejia@uptc.edu.co
Doutor em Geografia pela Universidade de Angers, França (2014). Coordenador Acadêmico dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Geografia EPG, Programas de Mestrado e Doutorado em Geografia. Editor da revista Perspectiva Geográfica, integrante do grupo de pesquisas GEOT Geografia e Gestão Territorial. Pesquisador Júnior e Par reconhecido pelo MinCiencias. Membro do CONACES/MEN, Colômbia. Seus interesses estão relacionados a temas associados ao turismo, patrimônio e desenvolvimento local. A geografia do vinho na Colômbia.
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Gerhard Rainer
Alemanha
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
gerhard.rainer@ku.de
Gerhard Rainer estudou Geografía e História na Universidade de Innsbruck (Áustria) entre 2004 e 2010. No ano 2016 se doutorou em Geografía com uma tese sobre “Globalization and the political ecology of tourism and amenity migration in the Calchaquí Valleys (NW-Argentina)”. Desde 2016 trabalha como post-doc em Geografía na Universidade Católica de Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Atualmente avança em uma perspectiva comparativa global, com estudos de caso na Argentina, Chile, Nova Zelândia e Tirol do Sul (Itália) para pesquisar a globalização da indústria vitivinícola a partir dos anos 1980. Para isso, se baseia em enfoques conceituais da Economia heterodoxa e da Ecología Política. Junto com Christian Steiner, é o principal pesquisador do projecto “Geographies of qualification in the global wine industry”, financiado pela Sociedade Alemã de Pesquisa (DFG). Os principais temas de pesquisa são: globalização, relações homem-natureza, indústria do vinho, turismo e migração de amenidades e desigualdades.
Diana Lizbeth Méndez Medina
México
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC)
mendez.diana@uabc.edu.mx
É graduada em História pela Faculdade de Filosofía e Letras da UNAM. Mestre e doutora em História pelo Centro de Estudos Históricos do Colégio do México. Está vinculada ao Instituto de Investigações Históricas da Universidade Autônoma da Baixa Califórnia (UABC), México, onde é pesquisadora e professora no Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em História. Suas linhas gerais de pesquisa são a História Econômica e Política do México na primeira metade do século XX, com ênfase no estudo das políticas agrícolas do governo federal e produção agrícola em distintas zonas do norte do México. Pertence ao Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), nível I. Entre 2013 e 2014 foi responsável pelo projecto de pesquisa: "Vitivinicultura na Baixa Califórnia, décadas 1930-1950. Planos para o desenvolvimento agrícola e a participação do governo federal”, com financiamento do Programa para el Desarrollo Profesional Docente para el tipo Superior (PRODEP).
Claudio Robles Ortiz
Chile
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
claudio.robles@usach.cl / crobles@cehal.cl
Claudio Robles-Ortiz (Ph.D., History, University of California, Davis, 2002), is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department, at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He is also the Director of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria de América Latina (CEHAL); and Editor of the journal Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL, www.haal.cl). He studies the economic, social, and political history of Chilean rural society from the 1850s to the present. His research examines technological innovation and economic growth in agriculture, the transition of the hacienda system towards agrarian capitalism, and agrarian interests in economic policy debates. In the area of political history, he studies the agrarian reform of the 1960s and 1970s as an experience of rural politicization and mobilization, along with its impact on both local and national politics. His recent publications include “Frontier Capitalism: Agrarian Expansion in Southern Chile, c. 1890-1930”, Bulletin of Latin American Studies 39: 2 (2020), pp. 238-254; “Modernization in the Periphery: The Introduction of the Tractor in Chile, c. 1910-1935”, Agricultural History 94: 3 (2020), pp. 413-443; and “The agrarian historiography of Chile: Foundational interpretations, conventional reiterations, and critical revisionism”, Historia Agraria 81 (2020), pp. 93-122.
Estudantes de Pós-Graduação
Débora Nunes de Sá
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
PhD student in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in the research line Migrations, Spatialities and Globalities. Integrates the Laboratory of Immigration, Migration and Environmental History (LABIMHA / UFSC) and the Center for Historical Studies of the Rural World (NEHMuR / UPF). She holds a master's degree (2017) and a degree in history (2014) from the University of Passo Fundo.
Gil Karlos Ferri
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
PhD student in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Bachelor and Degree in History from UFSC and Master in History from the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS). Researches and teaches History, with emphasis on Italian-Brazilian studies, viticulture and Global Environmental History.
João Davi Oliveira Minuzzi
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina - SC
PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in the research line Migrations, spatialities and globalities, CAPES-DS scholarship holder. Member of the Laboratory of Immigration, Migration and Environmental History (LABIMHA) and member of the Working Group on Environmental History of the National History Association (ANPUH). He holds a Master's degree in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), through the Postgraduate Program in History, having been a Capes scholarship holder. He graduated as a historian from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in 2014, where he developed research-teaching-extension activities in Museums, Schools, Research Groups and Pre-university entrance exams. He received a scholarship from Capes for the Teaching Initiation Program (PIBID-História). Has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis on Environmental History.
Lucía Cortez
Argentina
UNCuyo - IMESC, IDEHESI-CONICET
Professor and Degree in History (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Cuyo). Head of Practical Work in the Argentine History Chair of the Bachelor of Social Communication (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo) and Doctorate of CONICET (2020-2025) within the scope of the Network's Executive Unit Project: “El Estado argentino and their managers: trayectorias, identidades y disrupciones, 1852 / 1853-2010. From design to complex”. Her doctoral thesis investigates the trajectories of institutions and managers linked to the process of territorial appropriation of the provincial State in Mendoza at the end of the 19th century: Topographic Department, surveyors, engineers. Member of research projects funded by the Secretaría de Investigaciones, Internacionales y Posgrado (SIIP) of the National University of Cuyo.
Marianel Falconer
Argentina
National University of Cuyo
History teacher, Bachelor of History thesis and professor at the National University of Cuyo. Cultural manager, PhD candidate in History and member of the Historical Water Archive (AHA) project of the General Irrigation Department (Province of Mendoza).
Undergraduate students
Julia Mai Velasco
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Graduating in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is currently a CNPq scientific initiation fellow. Has experience in History, with emphasis on Environmental History. It is part of LABIMHA: Laboratory of Immigration, Migration and Environmental History at UFSC.
Laianny Cristine Gonçalves Terreri
Brazil
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Graduating from the History course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is currently a scientific initiation fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Michely Cristina Ribeiro
Brazil
Federal University of Fronteira Sul - SC
Graduating in History from the Federal University of Fronteira Sul. Currently, she is a scientific initiation scholarship holder from CNPq. She is part of the Fronteiras: UFFS Environmental History Laboratory research group. Has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis on Environmental History, deforestation and reforestation.