Bio
Vinícius Bivar is an Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Brasília, where he specializes in the history of authoritarian movements and regimes in Europe and Latin America. His teaching and research focus on the political, ideological, and transnational dimensions of these movements.
Dr. Bivar earned his Dr. phil. in History from the Freie Universität Berlin, an MA in Modern European History, Politics, and Society from Columbia University, and a BA in History from the University of Brasília.
He is currently working on a book project based on his doctoral dissertation, which examines the foreign policy of the Nazi regime for the Americas, with particular attention to its anti-communist collaboration with Brazil.
Dr. Bivar has been a doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, and is an active member of the research network Direitas, História e Memória. He also serves as a research fellow at the European Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN) and Brazil’s Observatório da Extrema Direita (OED).
In addition to his academic work, Dr. Bivar contributes to public discourse through articles and commentary on European and Latin American politics, the European Union, and EU-Latin American relations. His analyses have been featured in both academic and non-academic outlets in English and Portuguese. (see research and writing).
Education
– Dr. phil. in Modern History, Freie Universität Berlin, 2024
– MA in European History, Politics and Society, Columbia University, 2016
– BA in History, Universidade de Brasília, 2013
Selected Grants and Awards
– Doctoral Fellow, German Historical Institute (Washington, DC)
– Promotionstipendium, Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
– Thesis Fieldwork Grant, European Institute at Columbia University
– Summer Field Research Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
– Research Assistantship, Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
– Teaching Assistantship, Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Selected Talks & Conference Presentations
BIVAR, V. “Ultradireita na Alemanha: a agenda internacional da Alternative für Deutschland (AfD),” Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), 2024
BIVAR, V. “The South American Front: Nazi Anticommunism and the Brazilian Revolution,” German Historical Institute DC, 2019.
BIVAR, V. “The Persistence of an Idea: Anticommunism in Brazil from Getulio Vargas to Jair Bolsonaro,” Columbia University, 2019.
BIVAR, V. “Überschneidende Identitäten: Deutsch-Brasilianer zwischen Estado Novo und dem Dritten Reich,” Universität Bern, 2018.
BIVAR, V. “The AfD and the rise of the new right in Germany,” Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2018.
BIVAR, V. “The Third Reich: historiography and contemporary debates,” Universidade de Brasília (UnB), 2017.
CURI, L.; LIMA, D.; BIVAR, V. “Brazil in the economic discourse of German diplomacy in the 1930s: bilateral trade, Autarky and Großraumwirtschaft,” Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History, 2016.