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ARCHAEOLOGIST
ANTHROPOLOGIST




ABOUT
Currently I am a post-doc reseracher at Exorigins project, based at Centre Alenxadre-Koyré, École des hautes études em sciences sociales, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CAK, EHESS, CNRS) - Paris, France.
M research project "The struggle for rubber or how a specie moved (around) the world" focuses on the role of the flux of international interest in the lower Amazon region in the access of plants of the species Hevea brasiliensis and how the circulation of knowledge and people promote the diffusion of rubber around the world. The research problem here aims to assess the effective role of French and English rubber companies where the rubber seeds came from in order to understand such commercial relations and 'botanical mentalities' at the turn of the 18th to 19th century. This project aims to deepen studies on the movement of plants and people in the context of the rubber cycle (1850-1920) in the Lower Amazon.
RESEARCH BACKGROUND

The rubber related research began when a rubber tapper (Mr. João) found some stonewares near native rubber trees, at the Lower Amazon. At the same place sir Henry Alexander Wickham collected 70.000 Hevea brasiliensis seeds and sold them at London on 1876. This would change the world rubber economy, transfering the main productive area to Asia in the following decades. Hence, the rubber items made for industry, surgery and locomotion shaped the world to what one might call 'modern'.
Hence, my PhD research project discussed the entanglement of plants, things and humans how the rubber seeds enlarged the world and how deal with its heritage.



BRIEF CV
PRESENT
2022-
Post-doc researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, France
Project: "The struggle for rubber or how a specie moved (around) the world"
EDUCATION
2018-2022
PhD candidate in Anthropology (Archaeology), Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Advisor: Diogo Menezes Costa; Coadvisor: Floriano Pastore Jr.
Thesis: The agents of the elastic god during the 19th century at Lower Amazon
2014-2016
Master’s in Archaeology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dissertation: Arqueologia Histórica no Sítio Aldeia (Santarém, PA): A Cerâmica dos Séculos XVIII e XIX.
2013-2014
Specialization in Quaternary Geology (Archaeology), National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
Dissertation: Anatomia do lenho carbonizado em Euphorbiaceae s.l. como subsídio a Antracologia.
EXPERIENCE
2019-2020
Visiting researcher, Dept. Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Supervisor: Cornelius Holtorf
Project: From the materiality of the rubber period (1850-1920) to the agents of the elastic god at the Lower Amazon: entanglement in an emerging present
2017
Professor, archaeology undergraduate course, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Federal University of Western Pará
2016-2017
Archaeologist, “Contract Archaeology”, Dept. of Archaeology, Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of Amapá
MEMBERSHIPS
2021-
EAA - European Association of Archaeologists, Student Member
2020-
ICOMOS Brasil, Full Member
2019-2022
WAC - World Archaeological Congress, Rate B Member
2019-2020
ACHS - Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Full International Member
GRANTS
2019
Erasmus Staff Mobility for Training – Mobility Agreement, Kew Gardens
SERVICE
2018-
Research collaborator on Rubber Technology for Amazon (TecBor), University of Brasília
Researcher, Anthropology of Tourism at Amazon Research Group, Federal University of Pará
Researcher, Amazonian Historical Archaeology Research Group, Federal University of Pará
EDITORIAL BOARD
2020-2023
CHAT BAR book series – Editorial board
2019-2021
Cadernos do Lepaarq: Journal of Anthropology, Archaeology & Heritage – Peer-reviewer & Special Issue Organizer
2018-2019
Amazônica: Journal of Anthropology – Assistant Editor
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
SELECTED ARTICLES
CONTACT
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UMR8560, CAK 2, Cours des Humanités