Research Team
Julimar Mora Silva
As a researcher in contemporary history, I am dedicated to the study of the internationalisms that emerged during the Cold War. My research examines the circulation of workers, left-wing militants, anti-racist activists, and socialist travelers through the networks that underpinned technical-labor internationalism between Latin America and Southern Africa during the late Cold War. More broadly, I am interested in the formation of an anti-imperialist culture, the debates and applications regarding development, and the intersection of race and class at the heart of internationalist experiences across the Third World. I received my PhD in History from the PUC-Rio. My doctoral thesis is titled “Third World Cosmopolitans: Labor Networks, Activist Communication, and Transnational Cultures of Solidarity between Brazil and Mozambique during the Cold War (1970–80s).” Building upon this work, my most recent project analyzes how technical knowledge and everyday practices for development were mobilized and negotiated by solidarity networks with a labor and productive focus.
Sabrina Castronuovo
Is a FAPERJ postdoctoral fellow at UERJ’s Faculty of Law and holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). Her research is directly connected to the Cold War and examines state repression in Southern Cone democracies, focusing on intelligence and policing institutions, military justice, prisons, and the trajectories of political prisoners, with particular attention to repressive practices and policies implemented under civilian governments of the period. She is the author of “Cárcel común, preso político: represión y tortura en tiempos de Frondizi (1958–1962)” and has published articles and book chapters in national and international outlets. She serves on UERJ’s Truth and Memory Commission. In 2023, she received an award from CLACSO (“Democracy, Human Rights and Peace”) and was also recognized by the American Society for Legal History. She coordinates the Permanent Interinstitutional Seminar on youth and student movements and conducts research with projects at UNLP (Argentina), the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Legal History (UERJ- Brazil), and the Atlantic Connections Research Lab (PUC-Rio).