Ronald Raminelli

Ronald Raminelli has a PhD in History from Universidade de São Paulo (1994). He is a Professor at the Department of History at Universidade Federal Fluminense and researcher A1 at CNPq and Faperj in Brazil. He received a research fellowship at Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Germany (1994-1995), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - France (2002-2003), Universidad de Murcia in Spain (2012). He was an associate researcher at Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil (2011-2012). His areas of academic expertise are colonial history, the idea of race, and nation between the 16th and 19th Centuries. Among his many publications, it is worth mentioning Imagens da Colonização (1996), Viagens Ultramarinas (2008), and Nobrezas do Novo Mundo (2015).

In the new research project, he intends to analyze how Blacks and mulattos were inserted into projects of nation-making in the 19th Century. Drawing on novels and memoirs, he examines not only the controversies between pro-slavery and antislavery politics but also the portrayal of racial diversity and the idea of the nation in Cuba and Brazil.