Matheus Serva Pereira

Matheus Serva Pereira holds a Ph.D. in African Social History from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), with a scholarship from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp). Is the author of the book "Grandiosos batuques: tensões, arranjos e experiências coloniais em Moçambique (1890-1940)". Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2020. He was awarded a CEEC individual contract in the FCT 2021 CEEC call. In the context of this award, since May 2022 he has been a Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), where he developed a project with the title: "African experiences of assimilation in Mozambique: histories and memories (1910 - 2010)", (grant reference DOI 10.54499/2021.01651.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0008). More recently, his project "Nursing in Mozambique: African Nurses, Colonial Dynamics and Anti-Colonial Imaginaries (1909-1975)" was awarded in the call for Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains 2023 from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), with activities scheduled to begin in January 2025. Pereira was a researcher on the project INDICO: Indigenous colonial archives: micro-histories and comparisons, funded by national funds by FCT (grant reference PTDC/HAR-HIS/28577/2017), based at the ICS-ULisboa, Portugal, and on the Marie Curie project RESISTANCE. Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th Centuries (reference, 778076-H2020-MSCA-Rise-2017), based on Évora University. He has produced post-doctorate research (2017-2019), funded by Fapesp, at the Unicamp History Department, and with a research internship at ICS-ULisboa, entitled Nyonxani, tikweni: Music, Colonialism and Nation in Mozambique (1950-1980), about the life and music of Fany Mpfumo. During the post-doctoral also worked as a researcher in the project "Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and ways of exploiting labor in a historical perspective", coordinated by Prof. Fernando Teixeira da Silva (Unicamp), working directly on the topic "Sources for African history in the Edgard Leuenroth Archive (AEL -Unicamp)", and organized the exhibition (in person and online) "Moçambique: independência e nação no AEL" (2019). With this experience, produced another two online expositions about Mozambique past and present, entitled: "Mozambique é maningue nice" (2021), and "Moçambicanas em luta e a construção e uma heroína da libertação colonial" (2022), respectively in partnership with the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV-Brazil) and Geledés - Black Women's Institute (São Paulo-Brazil). Produces research in Social History, History of Labor, History of Africa, History of Mozambique, European colonialism in Africa, African urbanities, music, leisure, and citizenship in African contexts, post-colonial studies, and African archives. It is a member of the "Africas: Research Group: society, politics, and culture (UERJ - Brasil)", and "Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Societies Research Group (ICS-ULisboa)". Creator and producer, with Ricardo Roque, of the podcast "Impérios, Colonialismos e Sociedades Pós-coloniais". Is one of the directors of the journal "Práticas da História: Journal on theory, historiography and uses of the past" and was elected twice in a row (2020-2022 and 2023-2024) to the board of the Brazilian African Association (ABE-África). Is also the coordinator of the editorial team of the website Empires, Colonialism and Postcolonial societies Investigation group and a member of The Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press), as an Advisory Editorial Board, Southern Africa. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)