Emanuel Holanda holds an MA in History from Fluminense Federal University (UFF, 2023) and a BA in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2019). He is currently a doctoral student in History at UFF, with a sandwich doctoral research stay at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

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He develops research on the history of twentieth-century Catholicism, with a focus on social biographies of priests, women religious, and laypeople active in Northeast Brazil during the civil-military dictatorship.

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His studies address, among other themes, the work of missionaries linked to the encyclical Fidei Donum, as well as Liberation Theology, Ecclesial Base Communities, and relations between the Church and repression during the period.

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He is currently developing doctoral research on the trajectory of the Italian missionary Luigi Cecchin, connecting the historical contexts of Italy during the Fascist period and the postwar era with the Brazilian experience during the dictatorship and redemocratization.