# Ronald Raminelli Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor ![headshot of Ronald Raminellli](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/drclas2/files/ramelli.jpg?itok=ou7sNbDj) email 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. - ## Academic Year [2022-2023](/academic-year/2022-2023) - ## People [Visiting Scholar](/people/visiting-scholar) - ## Scholars/Fellows [Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor](/scholarsfellows/robert-f-kennedy-visiting-professor)