EDMAR VICTOR RODRIGUES SANTOS

PhD Candidate in the Center for Historical Studies, El Colegio de México (CEH-COLMEX)

Email: esantos@colmex.mx
edmarvictorjr@gmail.com

Profile

I am a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Latin American History at El Colegio de México (CEH-

COLMEX). Since the beginning of my academic career in 2007, I specialized in the history of
Latin America, taking a series of courses available at the university and further academic
training in the same field. My main area of research in those years has been Political and
the Cultural History of Mexico, from the second half of the XIX century through the XX
century in a comparative perspective with Brazilian History. Other areas of expertise include
Latin American identities, Latin American race relations, Intellectual History and Latin
American Cultural Studies.

My current research is dedicated to investigating the role of Brazilian and Mexican

anthropologists (among other men of science) in the critique of scientific racism from 1911
to 1950. It also analyzes the importance of that critique to the formation of the national
identity of these two countries in the same period.

Regarding my experience as a teacher, it ranges from History teaching in a variety of

contexts to teaching foreign language, being that Portuguese, English or Spanish. I’m also
well experienced in organizing academic events.

Languages

 Portuguese – native

 Spanish – near-native fluency

  English – advanced

 French – intermediate

Education

 PhD Candidate in History, 2015-2020 (ABD)

Center for Historical Studies, El Colegio de México (CEH-COLMEX)

 Dissertation: “El laboratório latinoamericano: raza, ciencia social y nacionalidad

en México y Brasil, 1911-1950” [The Latin American laboratory: race, social
science and nationality in Mexico and Brasil, 1911-1950]
Supervisors: Romana Falcón Vega and Engracia Loyo Bravo

 M.A. in Social History, 2012-2014

Graduate Department of Social History (PPGHIS), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
(UFRJ), Brazil

 Thesis: A Revolução é “a” Revolução(?): Centralização política e disputas pelo

sentido da Revolução Mexicana (1917-1924). [The Revolution is “the”
Revolution(?): Political centralization and disputes over the meaning of the
Mexican Revolution (1917-1924)]
Supervisor: Dr. Fernando Luiz Vale Castro

 B.A. in History, 2007-2012

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

 Dissertation: “Lo que debe caber y no debe caber en la Constitución”. A obra da

Revolução Mexicana no âmbito da Modernidade (1910-1920) [What should or
should not be in the Constitution. The legacy of the Mexican Revolution in
Modernity (1910-1920)]
Supervisor: Dr. Fernando Luiz Vale Castro

Further academic training

 History Didactics, cultural history y historical-scientific accountability, Brazilian

Society of Theory and History of Historiography (SBTHH), 2013
  Hermeneutics: from affirmation as a method to its current limits, Brazilian Society of
Theory and History of Historiography (SBTHH), 2012

 The first centenary of the Mexican Revolution, Nacional Association of Researchers

of History of the Americas (ANPHLAC), 2010

 The building of identities in Hispanic America, Nacional Association of Researchers

of History of the Americas (ANPHLAC), 2008

Fellowships & Awards

 Fellowship on the National Program of the National Council of Science and

Technology (CONACYT), Mexico, 2015-2019

 Fellowship on the Excellence Program of the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation of

Support to Research of Rio de Janeiro State (FAPERJ), 2013-2014

 Fellowship of the Superior Education Improvement of Personnel Agency (CAPES),

Brazil, 2012-2013

Teaching Experience

 Undergrad teaching assistant to Latin American History III (1880-1930), Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 2008-2010

 General History teacher, high school level, Cecierj Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, 2014-
2015

 General History teacher, high school level, Federal Center of Technological

Education, (CEFET), Rio de Janeiro, 2012

 Lecturer on workshop “Perceptions of Slavery in XIX century Brazil”, Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro State (UniRio), March 8, 2014
  Teacher of Portuguese as a foreign language in a series of companies (IBC, Uber,
Idemia, etc.), Mexico, 2019

 Private tutor of Portuguese, English and Spanish, 2018-2019

Publications and participation in events

 “O jogo político das expectativas na formulação da Constituição revolucionária

mexicana (1910-1917).” In: Revista Eletrônica da Associação Nacional de
Pesquisadores em História das Américas (ANPHLAC), v. 12, p. 196-228, 2012, ISSN
1679-1061.

 “Nacionalismo revolucionário e a Raça Cósmica de José Vasconcelos: Tradição a

Serviço da Modernidade”. In: Anais do 7° Seminário Brasileiro de História da
Historiografia – Diálogos Brasil-Alemanha, Mariana-MG, Brasil, 2013. [coautoria
com João Gabriel da Silva Ascenso];

 “A rebelião de Adolfo de la Huerta como foco de análise do governo de Álvaro

Obregón (1920-1924)”. In: Anais do XXVII Simpósio Nacional de História –
Conhecimento histórico e diálogo social, Natal-RN, Brasil, 2013;

 “As conquistas do passado não são mais suficientes”: o campo de expectativa social
da Revolução Mexicana e nova ordem político-constitucional. In: Anais do X
Encontro Internacional da Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em História das
Américas (ANPHLAC), São Paulo, Brasil, 2012;

 “Kairós: Experiência do tempo extática e possibilidades de constituição narrativa de

sentido.” In: Anais do 6° Seminário Brasileiro de História da Historiografia, Mariana-
MG, Brasil, 2012;

 “América Latina e o ‘devir’: legitimidade política em um projeto de Modernidade

sob prisma mexicano”. In: Revista Urutágua, n.20, pp.17-28, 2010,
https://doi.org/10.4025/urutágua.v0i20.8307
Paper presentations

 II Colloquium of PhD Students. Mexico and Latin America in History

August 21-23, Instituto Mora, Mexico City, Mexico, 2019
Paper: “Raza, antropología y cuestión nacional en México y Brasil, 1911-1931”

 VII Seminar on Studies of Ideas

December 14-16, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile, 2017
Paper: “La antropología y la formación del Estado Nacional en México y Brasil: Una
mirada sobre la actuación de Manuel Gamio y Edgar Roquette-Pinto”

 XXXIII Giulio Massarani Undergrad Seminar of Cientific Initiation

October, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011
Paper: “Revolução Mexicana e o Tempo Histórico da Modernidade. Constituição de
1917 e o Campo de Expectativa Social”

 XXXII Giulio Massarani Undergrad Seminar of Cientific Initiation

October, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010
Paper: “A Força das Expectativas Irrompe na História. Revolução Mexicana e o Poder
Político após 1917”

 XXXI Giulio Massarani Undergrad Seminar of Cientific Initiation

October, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009
Paper: “América Latina em Busca da Modernidade: A Força do Regime no Futuro
Consumador”

 XXX Giulio Massarani Undergrad Seminar of Cientific Initiation

November, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008
Paper: “‘Viva o México, Filhos de Sua Malandragem’: O Valor de ‘Enganar’ na
Estruturação de Poder no México para Carlos Fuentes”

Conference organization

 Conference Organizer, VII Manuel Salgado Guimarães Graduate Graduate Seminar

of Historical Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro,
2012-2013
  Conference Organizer, Undergraduate Seminar of History Researchers, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, 2009-2011

 Editor of “Caderno Universitário de História”, 2009-2011

 Organizer of the community outreach course “History and Cinema”, Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, August-December, 2011

References

 Dr. Fernando Luiz Vale Castro

Adjunct professor of History of the Americas in Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Contact: valecastroufrj@gmail.com

 Dra. Romana Falcón Vega

Professor-researcher at Center for Historical Studies in El Colegio de Mexico
Contact: rfalcón@colmex.mx

 Dra. Engracia Loyo Bravo

Associate professor at Center for Historical Studies in El Colegio de Mexico
Contact: eloyo@colmex.mx

 Dr. Pablo Yankelevich

Director of the Center for Historical Studies in El Colegio de Mexico
Contact: pabloy@colmex.mx