Alessandra Gonzalez de Carvalho Seixlack

Post-doctorate in Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Adjunct Professor of American History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). The doctoral research focuses on the relationship between the Mapuche and the Argentine and Chilean national states during the process of imposing their territoriality in the late nineteenth century. Currently, develops research focused on the dialogue between history and indigenous epistemologies and on the analysis of indigenous intellectual production in contemporaneity. Coordinator of the Prodocência Project UERJ “Descolonizando o conhecimento. Contribuições epistemológicas para um novo olhar sobre a História” and of the Extension Projects “New Possibilities in Teaching and Researching American History” and “Caminhos de Abya Yala – Série intelectuais indígenas do continente americano”.

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Ana Carolina Gomes Beserra da Silva

Ana Carolina holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with an undergraduate research concerning the “New Brazilian indigenous historiography” and is currently a master’s student at the Social History Program at the same university, researching contemporary indigenous movements. At CEMA she has co-coordinated the Anthropology and Indigenous History Study Group. Professionally, she had experiences as a Human Rights’ researcher, worked in basic education and is currently working with the Education and Formation Group at Museu das Culturas Indígenas, in São Paulo.

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Ana Cristina de Vasconcelos Lima

Graduate in History by Universidade de São Paulo (2013). Social History masters’ student at the same university and scholar by FAPESP. Researcher of the  CEMAA/USP and coordinator of the Nahuatl Studies Group. Take part in the activities developed by CEMAA since 2008. Her research is related to mesoamerican representation and writing systems, especially to the prehispanic and colonial mixtec manuscripsts, named codices, with the title Os agentes nas histórias mixtecas pré-hispânicas e coloniais.

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Charles Sampson Bosworth III

Graduated in History (2006) from the Universidade de São Paulo. Currently writing his dissertation “Sacerdotes e práticas xamânicas na Mesoamérica: Representações de especialistas rituais nos códices mixtecos (século XIV-XVI)” for his master’s degree at the Social History graduate program (FFLCH-USP), with a CNPq fellowship. A researcher for the Center of Mesoamerican and Andean Studies (CEMAA-USP).

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Daniel Grecco Pacheco

Master’s in Art History (in progress) at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Pedro Paulo Funari, with the title Os Vestígios de Le Plongeon em Chichén Itzá: Investigação do chacmool e das oferendas associadas, e suas relações na Mesoamérica. Daniel Pacheco Holds a B.A. Degree in History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2012). He is dedicated to study issues related to the History of Mesoamerican Civilizations, especially the Mayan culture, History of Archaeology in America, Archaeological Theory, History of Art, and Iconography. During the graduation did a research, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Fernando Torres Londoño, with the title: Estudo dos Glifos e das Inscrições do Templo da Cruz de Palenque no México. Research that was awarded as Best research work in history in the 20th Meeting of Scientific Initiation of PUC/SP, in 2011. Daniel is a contributor at the Laboratório de Arqueologia Pública da UNICAMP and he is an associated researcher at the CEMAA-USP. He also worked as a researcher, consultant historical, and educator on the exhibition: Mayas, Revelações de um Tempo Sem Fim in São Paulo in 2014. Currículo Lattes – Scientific Production

Gustavo da Rocha

Master’s student in Social History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), with a study grant by the CNPq. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in History by the same institution (2020). Currently studies the epigraphy of Mesoamerica, with a research project titled Elementos da escrita nas pinturas murais de Teotihuacán (“Elements of writing in the mural paintings of Teotihuacan”). Tutors the CEMAA Study Groups of Nahuatl Language and Mesoamerican Codices since 2022 and participates in archeological excavations in the state of São Paulo under the LEVOC-MAE.

Maria Luisa Vieira
Holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP. Participates in CEMAA activities since 2012. Currently is a master student in Social History at Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH – USP), with the master’s degree thesis entitled “As tensões sociais entre indígenas do altiplano central mexicano nos processos da inquisição episcopal (1536 – 1543)”.

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Mariana de Souza Guimarães Lopes

Bachelor and Licensed in Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and Spanish from the University of São Paulo, she is currently a Master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispano-American Literature, with the dissertation entitled Colonial “criticism” in the epistolary genre: a study of rhetoric of the work Nueva corónica y buen gobierno by Felipe Guaman Poma and the Jesuit letters of Father Manuel da Nobrega. Her studies are focused on the analysis of texts and discourses produced during the colonial period. She is a researcher at the Center for Mesoamerican, Amazonian and Andean Studies at the University of São Paulo (CEMAA-USP), where she coordinates the Quechua Language Studies Group.

Pedro Ivo Costa

Master’s student in the postgraduate program in Social History (FFLCH/USP) with a dissertation entitled Los Enemigos de Casa: The relationship between the triple alliance and the altepemeh of the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley (1428-1519). Interested in the history of Mesoamerican groups, especially Nahua societies. Participates and coordinates the study groups of Mesoamerican codices and Nahuatl language at the Center for Mesoamerican, Amazonian and Andean Studies (CEMAA/USP), where is also a researcher.

Pedro Paulo Salles

Pedro Paulo Salles was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1958. He is an undergraduation and graduation Professor at the Music Department of the School of Communications and Arts from University of São Paulo, where he develops his work as a researcher in the fields of Musicology and Musical Creation Processes. His master’s degree and doctorate’s (Genesis of Musical Notation in the Infant and The reinvention of Music by Children: Pedagogical Implications of Musical Creation), both look into practices of musical creation with children, reflecting on creative processes and their relation with cognitive processes and knowledge generation in music. Since then, he develops his research on musical creation processes with children, development of musical notations with children and soundscape studies. Recently, he has developed works in the field of ethnomusicology exploring aspects of Brazilian native music: in a recent work, he studied an instrument from the Karajá Iny people, the horn Djuroná, merging ethnography, historiography, visual arts and native sonorities, tracing links between the horn and the traditional ceramic Karajá dolls, named litxoko, once he was contemplated with the FUNARTE (Funding of Critical Production in Popular and Traditional Culture) for so. Currently, he is the leader of the Musical Education Laboratory and of the Specialization Course (lato sensu graduation) Art in Education: theory and practice, both in the Music Department. He also coordinates the Research Group from CEMA (Centre of Mesoamerican and Andean Studies) and he is a researcher in the Research Group PAM (Research on Musical Anthropology) at the Department of History. 

Email: ppsalles@usp.br – Currículo Lattes – Scientific Production.