#  Thiago Mattos-Batista 

African and African American Studies with a primary field in History

 

 

 



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 email <tmattosbatista@g.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Thiago Mattos-Batista is a Ph.D. student in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History, and is also affiliated with the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at the Hutchins Center. His research interests include Afro-Brazilian popular festivities in the early 1900s, ideas of race and the African diasporic intellectual production in Latin America, and his research has been supported by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He holds a master's degree in History from Harvard University and two bachelor’s degrees: one in Social Sciences from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and another in Journalism from Faculdade Cásper Líbero, both in Brazil. Prior to his doctoral studies at Harvard, Thiago worked as a reporter, documentarist, and video producer in Brazil and in the United States.



 

 

 





 

 

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