Ludmila de Souza Maia

PhD in Social History at UNICAMP (2016) and at Rice University (2016), Maia was funded by CNPq-CAPES. She won the Wagoner Scholarship Prize that funded her doctoral research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rice University History department between 2016-2017, and she taught undergraduate courses on Brazilian and Latin American History. Her main topics of research are History of Brazilian Empire, gender relations, women's history, 19th-century female writers, travelers, and educators in the Atlantic world. In the past five years, she was teaching Global history, writing, and research in International schools in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro and she became a parent in 2020. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and she starts a new research on exploratory travels and environmental history in Brazil. Her first book "Travelers in Skirts" was published by Cosac in 2025. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)