I am a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on labor relations in 19th-century Latin America, the Brazilian nation-state formation, and the dynamics of village and autonomous Indigenous communities. Before beginning my Ph.D. studies, I earned a B.A. (2016) and an M.A. (2020) in History from the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil. My M.A. thesis examined the formation of the Brazilian nation-state in the province of Pará through a labor regime that coerced Indigenous villagers into work. This research was awarded as the Best Master's Thesis by the History Department of the Federal University of São Paulo in 2020.For my Ph.D. dissertation, I continue to explore labor relations, with a specific focus on the connections between various labor regimes in the cocoa production of the Brazilian Amazon.
Advisor: Keila Grinberg
- Latin American Social and Public Policy Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2022-23)
- Social Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2024-25)
Ferreira, Samuel Rocha. "A outra face do conflito: demandas pela adoção de uma nova política indigenista na província do Pará, 1821-1832." Revista Mosaico - Revista de História 16, no. 2 (2023): 114–129.
Latin American History
Global Labour History
Commodity History
Amazonian History
