Dr. Manoel Rendeiro Neto

Biography

Manoel Rendeiro Neto holds a B.A. teaching degree in History from the University of Brasília and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of California, Davis, with a specialization in African Diaspora Studies. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University. In fall 2026, he will assume the position of Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Yale. His research centers on the role of environmental knowledge in empire-building, ethno-racial stratification, and the emergence of autonomous territorialization among Afro-Indigenous communities in the Amazon. He is developing a manuscript titled 'Imperial Tides, Runaway Rivers: Cultivating Knowledge, Labor, Sovereignty in the Atlantic Amazon (1750-1850),' alongside articles related to engineering interventions in the waterscape resulting from slavery in 18th-century French Guiana, and Indigenous Amazonian women's roles in inter-village trade during Portuguese colonization. Rendeiro Neto is dedicated to researching traditional Afro-Indigenous Amazonian communities' histories and fostering the development of interdisciplinary studies about the largest rainforest in the world, addressing early modern and present-day challenges.

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