Marina Garcia Ferreira

Masters student in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EFLCH), holding a Bachelor's degree in History from the same institution. CAPES scholarship holder (20242025). Her research focuses on the translation and editing of the Histoire des Berbères, by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, in the context of 19th-century French colonialism in North Africa. As an undergraduate, she conducted a FAPESP-funded Scientific Initiation project (20192021) dedicated to mapping the early interpretations and uses of Ibn Khalduns thought during the 19th century, within the framework of Orientalist scholarship.She served as a volunteer teaching assistant at the Center for Memory and Historical Research (CMPH/Unifesp) and in the Teaching Improvement Program (PAD), assisting in the courses History of Asia and History of the Arab-Islamic Empire. She is a member of the Laboratory for Oriental and Asian Studies (LEOA/Unifesp). Her academic interests include the History of Books and Reading, Middle Eastern and North African History, Contemporary French History, Orientalism, and the circulation of ideas. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)