2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow for Afro-Latin American Studies
Aline Najara Gonçalves is a black Brazilian woman from Alagoinhas, Bahia, located in the interior of Brazil's Northeast. She is a mother and a follower of Candomblé.
She holds a PhD in History (UFRRJ), a Master's in Language Studies (UNEB) and is a specialist in Afro-Brazilian History (FAVIC). She is a volunteer researcher and vice-coordinator of the Laboratory of African Studies and the Atlantic Space at UNEB (LEAFRO-UNEB) and a member of the Study Group on the Worlds of Labor and Post-Abolition at UFRRJ (TRAMPA - UFRRJ). At the Study and Research Group on Alagoinhas (GEPEA), she coordinates the research on Ethnic-Racial and Religions Studies.
She is the author of the books Luiza Mahin: An African Queen in Brazil (CEAP, 2011) and Luiza Mahin: The Warrior of the Malês (CEAP, 2011), as well as the thesis “It is to contain blacks”: debates and narratives on the issue of the servile element in the Empire of Brazil, 1865-1908. (2022).
She is currently developing postdoctoral research at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Pittsburgh, entitled "The paradox of emancipation: The structuring of racism, social ordering and privileges in emancipationist laws in Colombia and Brazil during the 19th century", as a Postdoctoral Research Visiting Fellow within the scope of the University Consortium for Afro Latin American Studies.