COORDINATION/DIRECTION
Prof. Carlos Gonçalves
Bachelor in Mathematics (USP - 1990), Licentiate in Mathematics (USP - 1997), PhD in Mathematics Education (Unesp - 1997) and Associate Professor (Habilitation) in History of Science (USP - 2012). His bibliographic production is in the area of History, with works published especially on knowledge on Mesopotamian Antiquity. Affiliated to the International Association for Assyriology, the National Association of History, the Brazilian Society of History of Science and the Brazilian Society of History of Mathematics. He was a Research Fellow (University of Exeter, 2003-2005). Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Orientalistik (University of Vienna - 2009). Visitor at the SPHERE laboratory (Université Paris-Diderot and CNRS - 2012). Contemplated with a foreign researcher grant by the Mairie de Paris (2013) Scholarship holder of the residency program of the Institut d'études avancées de Paris (2016-2017). LAOP Coordinator and Foreign Research Associate at SPHERE Laboratory (Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire; CNRS and Paris 7).
Prof. Marcelo Rede
Professor of Ancient History (FFLCH-USP). Graduated in History (FFLCH-USP - 1988), Master in History (UFF - 1994), Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (2000) and PhD in Ancient History (Assyriology) (Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne - 2004). Internship in cuneiform epigraphy held at the Louvre Museum (1999-2002), publishing documents from the Tell Senkereh site (Larsa). Studied Sumerian, Akkadian and Eastern archeology at the École du Louvre and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He was Ancient History professor at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF - 1992-2008). Foreign member of the HAROC Laboratory of the French CNRS (Histoire et Archéologie de l'Orient Cunéiforme) and current coordinator of LAOP. Experience, area, and research topics: Ancient History; Assyriology; Ancient Economies; Material Culture; Iconography.
RESEARCHERS
Dr. Andrea Vilela
PhD in Languages, History and Civilizations of the Ancient Worlds from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2021) specializing in Assyriology, with a degree in History from the Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3 (2009); Master in History, Art History and Archeology from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2011) and Higher Certificate in Acadian Language from ELCOA – Institut Catholique de Paris (2013). Associate researcher at the UMR 5133 – Archéorient laboratory and postdoctoral fellow at DH-FFLCH-USP under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede. Research title: “Between proximity and distance: interactions between human populations and fauna in ancient Mesopotamia.” Scholarship grant #2022/01388-1, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Dr. Leandro Penna Ranieri
Leandro holds a PhD in Sciences (Social History program) from the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature, Languages, and Human Sciences (FFLCH) from the University of São Paulo (USP). He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH) from USP and a Master's Degree in Sciences, Sports Studies, at the School of Physical Education and Sport (EEFE) from USP. He was postdoctoral fellow at FFLCH-USP and member of the Ancient Near East Laboratory (LAOP-USP). He did a research internship at Sapienza Università di Roma (2016-2017) and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2020).
Topics of interest: Ancient History, History of Mesopotamia, History and historiography of Assyria, History and material and visual culture, History of the body, gestures and bodily senses in Antiquity.
Doctoral Scholarship grant #2014/22125-2, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); Research Internship Abroad Scholarship (BEPE) grant #2016/02241-2, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); Postdoctoral Scholarship grant #2018/13540-7, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); Research Internship Scholarship Abroad (BEPE) #grant: 2019/16055-5, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Dr. Matheus Treuk
Visiting Research Fellow at La Sapienza, Università di Roma (Grant #2023/01822-6, São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP). Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Humanities from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP), grant #2022/07801-8 from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). PhD in Social History from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), with an honorable mention granted by the Social History program at USP (Social History Award 2017-2018). He completed a doctoral internship at the École Française de Rome (2017). Bachelor and Licentiate in History (FFLCH-USP) and Bachelor of Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Ancient Near East Laboratory (LAOP) at USP. He has experience in the area of History, with an emphasis in Ancient History, and in the area of Law, with an emphasis on business law and capital markets. Doctoral Scholarship: grant #2016/14318-0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); and CAPES, in the form of PDSE (grant #88881.135183/2016-01).
Dr. Ronaldo Gurgel Pereira
Research fellow at the CHAM-FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2011 - currently). PhD in Egyptology, Universität Basel, Switzerland (2010). Director of the archaeological project “Akragas: The Quarter of Gate II” (2023), in an institutional agreement with the Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi, Agrigento. Ronaldo has extensive research experience, particularly in the study of orientalizing art (“aegyptiaca”); and the relationships between Phoenicians/Punics and locals, Greeks and locals, Egyptians and neighbors, in the context of the First Millennium BCE. In addition, he has taught topics related to Egyptology, as well as Phoenician/Punic and Greek epigraphy. He also produced the first grammar of Classical Egyptian in Portuguese, published by Editora Chiado.
Dr. Thais Rocha da Silva
Visiting Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge, 2023, FAPESP grant: #22/10406-3); Departmental Lecturer (2021-2022, University of São Paulo); Postdoc (University of São Paulo/FAPESP grant: 20/13319-9); Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. PhD in Egyptology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on ancient Egyptian settlements during the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BCE), combining archaeological and anthropological approaches to material culture and houses. Thais is interested in the intersection of institutional and individuals’ lives and how material culture constitutes social practices within the domestic sphere. She is part of the Amarna Project in Egypt and co-directs the project Being Egyptian together with Dr Linda Hulin, with the collaboration of the Egypt Exploration Society.
Link: https://www.thaisrocha.net/
PHD AND MS STUDENTS
Ms. Anita Fattori
Bachelor and Licentiate in History (PUC-Campinas - 2013). Master in Philosophy, Cultural Studies area (EACH-USP), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carlos Gonçalves. Doctorate in joint supervision in progress at PPGHS-FFLCH-USP / Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede and Prof. Dr. Cécile Michel. Research title: “Women and commercial networks in Assyria in the 20th and 19th centuries BCE”/ “Tissage de la trame sociale : femmes et réseaux commerciaux dans l’ancienne Mésopotamie”. Scholarship: grant #2019/12945-6, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Ms. Maria Carolina Gonçalves Rodrigues
Master in Social History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Languages, and Social Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH) under the guidance of Professor Doctor Marcelo Rede with the research “Negotiating identities: the Egyptian expansion and Nubia under the XVIII Dynasty (1550-1425 BCE)”, grant #2019/1541-0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Bachelor in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2018). Member of the research group LAOP - Laboratory of the Ancient Near East, at the University of São Paulo, with an emphasis on History. Bachelor and Licensed in History by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).
Ms. Santiago Colombo Reghin
Master in Social History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), under the guidance of Professor Doctor Marcelo Rede and Professor Doctor Fábio Augusto Morales. Research title: “Babylon and the formation of the Seleucids: impacts of imperial integration on the local elite and scribal culture (4th-3rd centuries BC).” Scholarship grant #2020/04735-9, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Research Internship Abroad (BEPE) grant #2021/09825-9, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), at ArScAn Laboratory (URM 7041, Paris X, Paris I, CNRS).
Ms André Shinity Kawaminami
Bachelor and Licentiate in History (FFLCH-USP). Master in Social History (FFLCH-USP), supervised by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede and Dr. Thais Rocha da Silva. Research title: “Between Royalty and Cult: The Divine Wives of Amun (12th-6th centuries BC)”. Scholarship grant #2020/03090-4, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). In Scientific Initiation, it had the following funding: Research Internship Abroad (BEPE), grant #2018/11390-8 São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) at ArScAn Laboratory (URM 7041, Paris X, Paris I, CNRS).
Enzo Snitovsky Onodera
Bachelor and Licentiate in History from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He is currently a Master’s student in Social History at the same institution under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede with a scholarship grant from Fapesp. The title of his dissertation is: “Daily Lives and Sociabilities in Al-Yahudu: Judean deportees under the Neobabylonian and Achaemenid Empires (6th and 5th centuries BCE)” (FAPESP grant n.º 2022/12649-0). He is currently a member of the Ancient Near East Laboratory (LAOP-USP).
Renato de Carvalho Ferreira
Graduated in History (FFLCH-USP), master's degree in progress at PPGHS-USP, advisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede.
Samuel de Barros Gandara
Bachelor and Licentiate in History from the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature, Languages and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Bachelor's Degree in Theology at the Center for Education, Philosophy and Theology at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Master's student in Social History at the University of São Paulo with research in the area of historiography of Ancient Israel and Judah and biblical studies scholarship grant #2021/13962-1, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). He is a member of the Ancient Near East Laboratory at the University of São Paulo. He has research interests in Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Temple Judaism, Old Testament Theology, and Memorial Studies. Has experience in the area of History, with emphasis on Ancient History and Biblical Studies.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
Dirceu Almeida Pires
Undergraduate student at the Department of History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Conducts scientific initiation research under the guidance of Doctor Thais Rocha da Silva on “Stelas and family memory records in Deir el-Medina.”
Gabriele Maria Oliveira
Undergraduate student in History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP). Between 2021 and 2022, she developed a scientific initiation research, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede with funding from the CNPq, entitled “The Babylonian Views on the Universe: The Cosmic Geography of Enūma eliš.” She is currently a member of the Ancient Near Eastern Laboratory (LAOP).
Helena Barbour Marins de Oliveira
Undergraduate student at the Department of History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP) and researcher at the Ancient Near East Laboratory (LAOP) at the same University. She was a student of Scientific Initiation under the guidance of Professor Doctor Marcelo Rede. Research title: “The Divine Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: The tablet of Shamash.” (FFLCH grantee – CNPq).
Julia de Oliveira Szoke
Undergraduate student at the Department of History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Conducts scientific initiation research under the guidance of Doctor Thais Rocha da Silva on the representations of Ancient Egypt in the cinema.
Mayra Osman Vasconcellos
Undergraduate student at the Department of History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Student of Scientific Initiation under the guidance of Professor Marcelo Rede. Research title: “The image of ancient Assyria in the 19th century in the works of Austen Henry Layard” (PIBIC – CNPq scholarship holder).
Pedro Vinicius de Castro
Undergraduate student at the Department of History at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Researcher at the Ancient Near East Laboratory at the same University, focusing on the interpretation of Egypt in Japanese comics (manga). Currently developing a research project at the University named “Orientalismo no Oriente: representations of Ancient Egypt in Japanese pop culture,” under the guidance of Thais Rocha da Silva. Internship at the José Midlin Brasiliana Library (BBM-USP).
ASSOCIATED MEMBERS & FORMER RESEARCHERS
Ms. Carolina Velloza Ferreira
Bachelor and Licensed in History (FFLCH-USP), Master in Science, Social History area (FFLCH-USP), advisor Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede. Research title: "The image, the pharaoh and the god at the time of Amarna: continuities and ruptures. (Egypt 14th century BC)". Scholarship grant #2015/09403-6, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Ms. Érika Rodrigues de Maynart Ramos
PhD student at the Università di Pisa (Egyptology). Master in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2018). Experience, area and research topics: Ancient History; hieroglyphic writing; literary production; scribes; cultural memory.
Ms. Giovanni Pando Bueno
Bachelor and Licentiate in History (FFLCH-USP). Master student in Social History (FFLCH-USP), supervised by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede. Research title: “Visuality and Memory: Political disputes and construction of the past in Rome in the times of Caesar and Augustus (I BC - I AD)”. Scholarship grant #2020/03091-0, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Ms. Rafael dos Santos Pires
He holds a Bachelor's and Licentiate's Degree in History from the University of São Paulo. Master's degree from the Graduate Program in Social History at the University of São Paulo with a FAPESP scholarship. He is interested in Ancient History, dedicating himself mainly to the study of Egypt during the New Kingdom. Member of the Ancient Near Eastern Laboratory (LAOP). Scholarship: grant #2018/03682-9, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).