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Social, Economic, and Political Dynamics
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I was born on March 31, 1959, in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, Brazil. I am a journalist and historian. I earned my PhD in Modern History from NOVA University of Lisbon (2016), under the supervision of Professor Ana Isabel Buescu and co supervision of Professor Anita Novinsky. I hold a master’s degree in Social History from the Federal University of Ceará (2009), a postgraduate specialization in Communication from the University of Fortaleza (2005), and a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Ceará(1981).
I served as Secretary of Culture and Sports of the State of Ceará(1998–2002), Deputy Secretary of the same department (1993–1998), and professor in the Journalism program at the University of Fortaleza(2002–2007). I participated in the creation of O Calo, a student newspaper of the Social Communication program at the Federal University of Ceará, and Comunicação, the first laboratory newspaper of the same program. I collaborated with the alternative newspaper Mutirão and worked in the newsrooms of Fortaleza’s major newspapers — Tribuna do Ceará, Meio Dia, O Povo, and Diário do Nordeste, where I became Head of Reporting at the age of twenty-two.
I served as President of the Ceará Journalists’ Union (1986–1989) and of the Ceará Press Association (2012–2013), and also as Vice President of the latter (2013–2016). I served as Secretary-General of the National Federation of Journalists (1989–1992), was a member of the board of DIEESE Ceará (1988–1990), took part in the Ceará Amnesty Commission(2004), and coordinated the establishment of the Queiroz Jereissati Institute, a nonprofit organization affiliated with GIFE — the Group of Institutes, Foundations, and Enterprises. Since 1985, after passing a public competitive examination, I have worked at Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB), the largest regional development bank in Latin America.
As a researcher, I was a member of the Atlantic Sephardic Diaspora Research Group (GPDAS), affiliated with the Federal University of Sergipe, until 2025. I have published the books Os ferroviários na cartografia de Fortaleza: rebeldes pelos caminhos de ferro (Secult, 2012), based on my master’s thesis; Jews in Ceará: 19th and 20th Centuries (Intermeios, 2016); and New Christians, Their Descendants, and the Inquisition in Ceará (Expressão Gráfica, 2021), based on my doctoral dissertation. I have also published several articles, including “A Life by a Thread: From Vienna to Ceará, the Diaspora of the Kaswiner of Stanislaswów,” a chapter in Shoah: 80 Years of Memory and Resistance, vol. I, Diaspora and Immigration, edited by Lyslei Nascimento and João Paulo Vani. My forthcoming book is Histories of Breeders, Farmers, Fishers, and Housewives (1800–2026).
I am an honorary member of the Ceará Institute (Historical, Geographical and Anthropological) and of the Ceará Academy of Letters. I hold Chair 14 (Letters Section) at the Cultural Institute of Cariri (ICC – Crato), and I am a member of the Ceará Journalists’ Union, the Ceará Press Association, and the Brazilian Press Association (ABI). As an alternate member, I serve on the Fiscal Council of the Plebeu Gabinete de Leitura Editorial Association.
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