Alexandre Fortes

Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) - Stanford University (2025-2026). Full Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in the field of Contemporary History, affiliated with the History Department of the Multidisciplinary Institute, which he headed from 2006 to 2008 (at the time, Department of History and Economics). Productivity Fellow at CNPq and Scientist of Our State (Faperj). He was Pro-Rector for Research and Graduate Studies at UFRRJ (2017-2021), director of the Multidisciplinary Institute at UFRRJ (2013-2017), member of the Board of Directors of the National History Association (ANPUH), editor of the Brazilian History Magazine (2013-2015), Coordinator of the Graduate Program in History at UFRRJ (2009-2010) and head of the Department of History and Economics at the Multidisciplinary Institute of UFRRJ (2006-2008). Member of the National Board of the National Forum of Pro-Rectors for Research and Graduate Studies (FOPROP) as coordinator of the Southeast Region (2019-2020). Founding member of the ANPUH Working Group on Worlds of Work, of which he was national coordinator (2003-2005). Member of the Board of the Brazilian Association of Labor Studies (2013-2015). Member of the Latin American Network of Global History. Member of the Evaluation Committee for the History area of CAPES (2013). Consultant to the Mellon Foundation for the selection of research projects awarded by the Latin American Studies Association (2013). Reviewer for Oxford University Press and the University of North Carolina Press. Coordinated projects for the preservation of historical collections selected by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), administered by the University of California at Los Angeles with funding from the Arcadia Foundation. Shared with Paulo Fontes the coordination of the Ministry of Labor's Labor Memory Program (2005-2007). He has coordinated several individual and collective research projects with funding from CAPES, CNPq, and Faperj, in addition to the institutional project Project for the Modernization and Expansion of UFRRJ Infrastructure for Research in Strategic Areas (CT-INFRA FINEP). Permanent member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in History and the Graduate Program in Digital Humanities. He was a member of the faculty of the Professional Master's Program in History Teaching (ProfHist). He holds a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (1987) and a master's and doctorate in History from the State University of Campinas (2001). He was a non-degree graduate student at Duke University (1997-1998) and completed postdoctoral studies at CeNedic (USP) and PPGHIS (UFRJ), where he worked as a newly qualified professor (2005). He completed a postdoctoral internship at Duke University with support from CAPES and was a Mellon Visiting Professor at the same institution (2011-2012). He has experience in the field of history, with an emphasis on Brazilian Republican history, contemporary history, and contemporary Latin American history, working mainly on the following topics: labor history in Rio Grande do Sul, the Workers' Party, labor history in Brazil, World War II, laborism, nationalism, the history of the left, global history, and digital history. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)