About me

Full Professor of International Relations at the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, teaching courses on History of Brazilian Foreign Policy at the graduate and undergraduate programs. Senior Research Fellow and deputy coordinator of the Center for Global Studies of the University of Brasília.

Academic positions

  • Full Professor of International Relations at the University of Brasilia (from May 2018).

  • Lemann Distiguishid Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Professor of International Relations at UnB since 1997.

  • Founder and coordinator of the Center for ​Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies - a laboratory of the Graduate Studies Program of the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasília.

  • Editor-in-Chief of Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (2004-2021) and of Meridiano 47 - Journal of Global Studies (2000-2021).

  • International Visiting scholar at the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies and at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2015-2016).

  • Lecturer at the Rio Branco Institute (Brazilian Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 2009-2011).

  • Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), Pontifical University Catholic of Argentina in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Pontifical University Catholic of Minas Gerais and at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

  • International Research fellow at the Centre d'Etudes sur le Brésil at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France (1996-1997).

  • International Research fellow at the Laboratory of History of International Relations "Frontières, Acteurs et Représentations de l'Europe" at the University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (from 2008).

Consultancy and institutional advisory

  • Consultant to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Science and Technology and Defense, and to national and international government and non-governmental organizations.

  • Senior consultant on articulation, governance and evaluation strategies in education, science and technology, and information intelligence .

Education

  • BA in International Relations, University of Brasília (1991);

  • MA in History - International Relations, University of Brasília (1994);

  • Ph.D. in History - International Relations, University of Brasília (2000);

  • Concluded post-doctoral studies at the Université de Strasbourg, France (2008-2009) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2015-2016).

Supervising and mentoring

Supervising and mentoring students at the Graduate School in International Relations of the University of Brasília, mainly on Brazilian Foreign Policy and International History:


Teaching

Teaching courses on Brazilian Foreign Policy and International History at the graduate and the undergraduate studies programs of the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasília:

    • History of Brazilian Foreign Policy - 60h course offered to the undergraduate studies program of International Relations;

    • Themes of the contemporary Brazilian Foreign Policy - 60h course offered to the undergraduate studies program of International Relations;

    • Brazilian Foreign Policy since the World War II - 60h course offered to the graduate studies program of International Relations.

Professional Service

  • Deputy Director of the Center for Global Studies of the University of Brasilia (from 2019)

  • Secretary General (2013-2015) of the Brazilian Association of International Relations - ABRI

  • Deputy Secretary General (2009-2011) of the Brazilian Association of International Relations - ABRI

  • Head of the Graduate Studies Program (2011-2015) in International Relations at the University of Brasilia

  • Head of the MBA Course (Specialization Course) in International Relations at the University of Brasilia (1999-2011)

  • Head of the Extension Program at the University of Brasilia (2008-2011)

  • Head of the Undergraduate Program in International Relations at the University of Brasilia (1999-2005)

Editorship & Boards

Editorship

Boards

  • Member of the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals on International Relations published in Brazil and abroad.

  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional (from 2021).