Andréa Casa Nova Maia

Biography

Andréa Casa Nova Maia is Professor of Brazilian Contemporary History and History of Art at the History Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). CNPq Productivity Fellow. She has a PhD in the Social History of Culture from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and a Master’s and Licentiate’s degree in History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where she recently completed a postdoctoral internship. She is the South American representative of the International Oral History Association (IOHA-2023-2025). She was President of the Brazilian National Oral History Association (ABHO-2020-2022) and Deputy Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Social History at UFRJ (PPGHIS-2021-2022). Former Vice President of the International Oral History Association (IOHA - 2012-2014), Young Scientist of Our State - FAPERJ (2013-2015). She works on the undergraduate courses in History and Social Sciences at the History Institute and the Philosophy and Human Sciences Institute at UFRJ, as well as in the Postgraduate Program in Social History (PPGHIS-UFRJ) and the Postgraduate Program in Comparative History (PPGHC-UFRJ), teaching and supervising theses and dissertations, as well as monographs and scientific initiation. Coordinator of IMAM - GP-CNPq, Laboratory of Image, Memory, Art and Metropolis, active since 2010 (www.imam.historia.ufrj.br). She is the author of: Apubh-20 anos. Oral History of the UFMG Teaching Movement (APUBH, 1998), On the Tracks of Time - Pedro Leopoldo’s Railway Memory (Mazza, 2003), Meetings and Farewells: the history of railroads and railroad workers in Minas Gerais (Argvmentvm, 2009), Lessons of Time, Themes in History and Historiography of Brazilian Republic (7 Letras, 2016), Russians in Review (Gramma, 2018), Waldir dos Santos, the “sambista” worker. History of a gold mine under Vargas (Gramma, 2019); co-organizer of Other histories: Essays in Social History (Ponteio, 2012), Pandemia Archive volume 1 and volume 2 (Editora UFMG, 2020), About memories, landscapes and images (Dialética, 2023), Brazilian Republic Podcast - Talks about our history (Telha, 2023),, organizer of Oral History and the Right to the City (Letra Voz, 2019), Clippings of the Feminine - Crystals of Memory and Women’s History in the Archives of Time (Ed. Telha, 2020), among other chapters and articles in specialized magazines.