Research and Writing
At this point, the unifying question underlying my scholarship is “How ideas circulate and influence political practices and policymaking?” My current research focuses, in particular, on the circulation of ideas and the international cooperation between right-wing movements in Germany and in Brazil during the 1930s. This particular subject also informs my research and writings on current affairs dedicated mostly to the re-emergence of right-wing movements and ideas in Europe and the Americas.
Peer-reviewed Articles
– German economic strategies for Brazil: autarky and ‘extended economic space’ in the 1930s, co-authored with Luiz Bruzzi and Danilo Barolo. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2019.
– La diplomacia alemana y las violaciones de derechos humanos en el Chile de Pinochet: historia y memoria, Revista Diversidad de las Culturas, 2023
Chapters in Edited Volumes
– Germany’s East and West Divide Fuels the Far-Right, in Eviane Leidig (ed.), Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right, ibidem, 2020.
– Diplomacy and Ethnicity: Germans in Brazil (1933-1938), in Rein, Rinke and Sheinin (eds.), Migrants Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America, Brill, 2020.
– ‘Long Live the Polarization’: The Brazilian Radical Right and the Uses of the Past under Jair Bolsonaro, in Louie Valencia-Garcia (ed.), Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History, Routledge, 2020.
Selected Media Appearances
– Quoted in Folha de São Paulo, Esquerda volta a governar todos os países nórdicos, mas retorno pode ser breve, 2021
– Interview with CNN Brasil, Macron forçado a defender seu legado em uma França dividida, 2022
– Interview with CBN Radio, Eleição francesa marca o avanço da extrema direita, mesmo com derrota nas urnas, 2022
– Quoted in UOL, Brasil teve o maior partido nazista fora da Alemanha, apontam historiadores, 2022
– Interview with HistóriaFM Podcast, Economia Nazista: construção e ruína da economia alemã, 2022
– Quoted in Correio Braziliense, Lema fascista e declaração falsa, 2022
– Interview with HistóriaFM Podcast, Alemanha Nazista: das origens do nazismo ao fim da Segunda Guerra, 2023
– Interview with Chutando a Escada Podcast, Ascensão da ultradireita na Europa, 2024
– Interview with Fora da Política Não Há Salvação Podcast, Europa: extrema-direita assusta, 2024
– Interview with SBTNews, O que é a extrema direita, 2024
Op-Eds
– Novo rumo para a política europeia, Correio Braziliense (Print), 2017.
– Germany’s East and West Divide Fuels the Far-Right, Fair Observer, 2019
– Will the Coronavirus bring down Hungary’s Failing Democracy?, Fair Observer, 2020.
– Why did Latinos Vote for Trump?, Fair Observer, 2020
– Portuguese courts vs the racist Chega party, Open Democracy, 2021