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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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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