Daniel Florence Giesbrecht

Daniel Giesbrecht is a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20)—University of Coimbra (UC), where he is also doing his PhD at the Contemporary History Program of the Faculty of Arts (FLUC). His thesis, already qualified by the Scientific Council, is entitled “From regeneration to redemption: eugenics, 'race' and biopolitics in Brazil and Portugal (1918-1949)” and is supervised by Dr. João Paulo Avelãs Nunes (FLUC/CEIS20/UC) and co-supervised by Dr. Patrícia Ferraz de Matos (ICS/ULisboa) and Dr. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (FFLCH/USP). His PhD project is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia—FCT (2021.04805.BD). He holds a Licence in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2001); a Licence in Pedagogy from Faculdades Integradas de Amparo (2004); a Licence in Social Sciences from the Metropolitan University of Santos (2013) and a Master in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2005). His teaching career as an elementary school teacher focuses on the areas of History, Philosophy, and Sociology. In Higher Education, he has teaching experience in the courses of Business Administration, Pedagogy, History, Law, Literature, and Psychology, besides having acted as Post-Graduation Coordinator.