Júnia Ferreira Furtado Explained

Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Belo Horizonte, 1960) is a Brazilian historian and university professor. She retired from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2016.[1]

Education

After graduating in 1983 with a degree in History from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Júnia Furtado completed a specialization in Modern and Contemporary History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. She then completed a Master's degree in Social History from the Universidade de São Paulo (1991), where she went on to defend her doctoral degree in 1996.[2]

In 2000, Júnia Furtado completed a post-doctorate at Princeton University. In 2008 and 2009, she completed another post-doctorate at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

In 2003, Furtado published her best-known work Chica da Silva e o contratador de diamantes, (English: ).[3]

She has been a professor at the UFMG since 1992, and at the Universidade de Lisboa since 2005.

Books

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Júnia Ferreira Furtado Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) ResearchGate. ResearchGate. en. 2018-01-21.
  2. Web site: Júnia Ferreira Furtado. Currículo Lattes.
  3. Web site: Chica da silva brazilian slave eighteenth century Latin American history. Cambridge University Press. 2018-01-21.