Moisés de Freitas Cunha

Moisés de Freitas Cunha holds a PhD specializing in Urban Historical Studies, is a Fulbright Fellow, and a Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow. He also holds a master's and a doctorate from the PEPG Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His postdoctoral studies (PUCSP; Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard; MUHNAC - National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon), funded by FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation, IBRAM - Motor and Machinery Industry, and BRASCALD - Industrial Boilermaking, aim to measure historical and urban inequalities and environmental racism in cities in the Americas and Europe, among other objectives and expected results. In short, her research aims to connect the colonial and slave-owning past to current urban inequalities, focusing on Brazil/Portugal and the US/England relations. She analyzes the production and accumulation of wealth, capital (economic-financial, political, cultural, social, etc.), and poverty based on the commodities coffee and cotton that led to the emergence of São Paulo and New York, considering European immigration, urbanization, and industrialization (late in the case of Brazil) as the main drivers of growth. Some of the expected results, through the combination of parameters from the Chicago School of Sociology/Symbolic Interactionism and parameters from Historical Materialism (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis), are to better understand social, cultural, and economic interactions in urban spaces (modern cities) and replicate them in the workplace to increase and improve sustainable economic results. In short, home life in the city and/or in the office/work; office life/work in the city and/or at home continually impact each other. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)