Diana Gonçalves Vidal

Diana Vidal completed her PhD in History of Education at the University of São Paulo in 1995. After that, she began her academic career at the same University, where she?s currently Dean of Brazilian Studies Institute. She is member of the Execute Committee of ISCHE (International Standing Conference for the History of Education), chief of liaison of ISCHE and Palgrave Macmillan's Global Histories of education book series Editorial Board and, from 2018, took the position Tresurer. She is also member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal for Educational Studies (BJES) (2019-2021) ans Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. In 2018 Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme granted a scholarship in the Program Directeurs d'Etudes Associés. From 2003 until 2007, she was President of Brazilian History of Education Society. From 2008 until now, she?s member of the International Committee of CEINCE (International Center for School Culture, Spain). In 2010 she became Full Professor for History of Education at University of São Paulo. From 2012 until 2015, she?s President of the Committee for Education at CNPq (National Council for Research), National State Department of Science and Technology, Brazil. From 2014 to 2018, she was vice-dean of Faculty of Education (USP). She has been awarded scholarships by a variety of organizations and foundations and served as a visiting professor in Paris and Buenos Aires. Her research interests include the New Education, school culture, school practices, historiography of education and connected history. She has published eight books and more than 100 articles and chapters on these issues including Ecrire l'histoire de l'education: le champ et la carte (1880-2010) (Denis Rolland, Marie-José Ferreira dos Santos, Simele Rodrigues. (Org.). Le Brésil: territoire d'histoire. Historiographie du Brésil contemporain.Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013) and, with coauthor Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho, History of Brazilian urban education: space and time in primary schools (Pink, William T.; Noblit, George W. (Eds.). (Org.). International Handbook of Urban Education. Springer, 2008, v. 19) and The schooling process in Brazil: culture and history of education (Silvina Gvirtz; Jason Beech. (Org.). Going to School in Latin America. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)