Coordinators

Cristiana Bertazoni

Cristiana Bertazoni holds a degree in History and a Master’s in Archaeology from the University of São Paulo. She has a PhD in Pre-Columbian History from the Department of Theory and History of Art at the University of Essex (England). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo. She was the coordinator of the Center for Mesoamerican, Amazonian, and Andean Studies at the University of São Paulo, where she continues to work today. She has professional experience in museums and art collections in Brazil and abroad: Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (England). She worked as a curatorial assistant in the Americas Department at the British Museum in London and as an associate researcher at the Department of Latin American Studies at the University of London (Birkbeck). She was a guest professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn (Germany) and a researcher at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She is currently a Principal Investigator at the University of Bonn, where she leads the research project “Mapping the Sacred Ashaninka Landscape,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Her research focuses on Pre-Columbian History and Archaeology of South America, particularly on the following topics: Andes, Western Amazon, Incas, and Ashaninka.

E-mail: bertazonic@gmail.com – Curriculum – Scientific Production.

Eduardo Natalino dos Santos

Eduardo Natalino dos Santos received his Bachelor’s degree in History from the Universidade de São Paulo (1992-1995); he also holds a Master’s degree (1997-2000) and a Ph.D. (2000-2005) in Social History from the same institution. Eduardo took courses, internships and did bibliographical researches at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2002-2003) and at Stanford University (2004). Nowadays he works as a professor of Pre-Hispanic American History and Amerindian Colonial History at History Department of the Universidade de São Paulo (http://historia.fflch.usp.br), and is dedicated to research the conceptions of history and cosmogony of the Mesoamerican and Andean elites, which he does through native American pre-hispanic and colonial sources. Along with many articles, he published his Master’s degree thesis Deuses do México Indígena. Estudo comparativo entre narrativas espanholas e nativas and also his Ph.D. dissertation Tempo, Espaço e Passado na Mesoamérica. O calendário, a cosmografia e a cosmogonia nos códices e textos nahuas. Eduardo is a researcher at Center of Amerindian Studies (www.usp.br/cesta) and one of the founding members of the Center of Mesoamerican, Amazonian and Andean Studies at the Universidade de São Paulo, which carries out, since the year 2000, activities on the History and Archaeology of these two regions of Indigenous America (colloquiums, seminars, nahuatl language study group etc.). He also has experience teaching History classes in Middle School and High School, where he worked for more than five years and for which he wrote a textbook called Cidades Pré-hispânicas do México e América Central.

E-mail: natalino@usp.br – Curriculum – Scientific Production.

Guilherme Bianchi Moreira

Guilherme Bianchi is a professor in the Department of History at the University of São Paulo and works in the field of indigenous history and history theory. In 2023, he published the book Historicidades em deslocamento: temporalidade e política em mundos ameríndios, based on his doctoral thesis, defended in 2020 in the Postgraduate Programme in History at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila). He was a visiting researcher at the Canning Library at King’s College London, with sandwich doctoral placements at the University of California, Davis and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He did a master’s degree at the Federal University of Paraná and graduated from the Federal University of Ouro Preto. He is a member of the Brazilian Society of Theory of History and History of Historiography (SBTHH).

E-mail: gbianchi@usp.br – Currículo Lattes – Scientific Production.

Vinicius Soares de Lima

Vinicius Soares has a master’s degree in History and Social Culture from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) with a dissertation entitled “The curacas in the chronicles of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega”. He was editor of the dossier section of the História e Cultura journal at the same university. He has a degree in history from the State University of Maringá, with a scientific initiation (PIBIC/FA). He did an interuniversity exchange doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid. Vinicius is currently a PhD student in Social History at the University of São Paulo (USP), under the supervision of Professor Eduardo Natalino dos Santos. At the same university, he is the coordinator of the Indigenous History and Anthropology Study Group at USP’s Center for Mesoamerican, Andean and Amazonian Studies (CEMAA/USP). His research focuses on the relations between the indigenous elites of the Peruvian Viceroyalty and the institutions of Spanish colonization, especially the Audiencia de Lima and the Consejo de Indias.

E-mail: vinilima100@gmail.com – Curriculum – Scientific Production.