Thaís R. S. de Sant'Ana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History,
College of Human Sciences and Humanities
Email: santana@uhcl.edu
Biography
Thaís Sant'Ana earned a B.A. in Tourism at Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
(PUC-Campinas) and both a B.A. and M.A. in History at the State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP). She was a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta and holds a Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she developed the bulk
of her current project which investigates entangled histories of migration, urban,
and environmental processes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Amazonia.
Dr. Sant'Ana received the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction for Outstanding
Academic Excellence from the Government of Alberta, was a Graduate Fellow at The Newberry
& Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar “The Archive: Theory, Form, Practice” and the
Alfred J. Hanna Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American and Caribbean
Studies at Rollins College.
Dr. Sant'Ana joined the UHCL faculty as an assistant professor of history in the fall
of 2022, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on colonial and modern
Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as environmental, urban, and social histories.
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Sant'Ana's areas of research interests include Latin America and the Caribbean; world histories; migration; urban; environmental; women, gender and culture; memory and history; museums and world’s fairs.
Publications
Selected Publications:
- “State-led Development and Migrants’ Resilience in the City of the Forest: c. 1910s–1930s,” The American Historical Review (AHR) 129, 4(2024), 1599–1618 (DOI link)
- “Looking Back at the Future: The Visit of President António de Almeida to the 1922 International Centennial Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro,” Dimensões Revista de História da Ufes48, 48(2022), 113–130 (DOI link)
- Comissioned entry for the Dicionário da Independência do Brasil: História, Memória e Historiografia ("Dictionary of the Independence of Brazil: History, Memory, and Historiography"), edited by Cecília H. S. de Oliveira and João Paulo Pimenta. São Paulo, Brasil: Edusp, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2022, 216–219 (link)
- Review of “Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation and Memory,” by Ana Paulina Lee, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes44, 3(2019), 393–394 (link)