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ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

Izabel
Pimentel, PhD

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About

Professor of Brazilian Republican History at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Programs in History (PPGH/UERJ) and Social History (PPGHS/UERJ-FFP). She is a UERJ Prociência Research Fellow and a researcher with UERJ’s Truth and Memory Commission.

She holds a PhD in History from Fluminense Federal University (UFF, 2016), with a doctoral research stay at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Argentina, funded by a CNPq sandwich doctoral fellowship (2014). She holds an MA in History (2009) and a specialization in Post-1930 Brazilian History (2007) from UFF, as well as a BA and teaching degree in History from Rio de Janeiro State University (2003).

She conducted postdoctoral research in the Graduate Program in History at Fluminense Federal University (2023–2025). From 2018 to 2023, she was a fellow of the National Postdoctoral Program (PNPD/CAPES) at UERJ’s Faculty of Teacher Education.

She is a member of the Laboratory for Research and Teaching Practices in History (LPPE/UERJ), the Oral History and Memory Center of the Laboratory for Studies of the Present Time (TEMPO/UFRJ), and the Center for Contemporary Studies (NEC/UFF).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Dictatorship and Redemocratization in Brazil and the Southern Cone

  • Armed Struggle

  • History of the Revolutionary Left

  • Gender and Political Militancy

  • Transitional Justice

  • History of Republican Brazil

  • Present Time and Social Movements History

  • Oral History and Memory

Selected Publications

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Co-authored with Maria Paula Araujo e Lays Corrêa. Autografia, 2025, 442 pages

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Co-authored with Maria Paula Araujo e Rafael Araujo. Autografia/FAPERJ, 2024, 580 pages

Previous Research Conducted at NEC

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECT • 2025

“It Is Affection That Helps Us Hold On”: History, Memories, Resistance, and Sensibilities in the Trajectory of Jessie Jane Vieira de Souza during Brazil’s Dictatorship and Redemocratization [English title]

Public Engagement & Media

17h- Mesa 2: Mulheres e ditaduras latino-americanas: resistências, colaboracionismo e cotidiano
02:42:47
II Jornada de Estudos Americanos Mesa 4
01:28:39
Direitos, política e memória públicos no Brasil | Democracia em Perspectiva II
02:02:07
O lugar do gênero na historiografia das ditaduras
02:04:51

Núcleo de Estudos Contemporâneos vinculado ao Instituto de História da UFF. Pesquisa em História do Tempo Presente desde 1994.

ICHF-UFF · Campus do Gragoatá
Bloco N, sala 216 · Niterói, RJ

@ 2026 NEC-UFF

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