Main Block - Documentation Center
Photo: Jéssica Bernardes
The Documentation Center of UEM, under the custody of the Complex of Research Support Centers – COMCAP, located at the State University of Maringá-PR. It was implemented with resources from the 03/2003 FINEP call; through the 01/2007 call, the subproject was based, in its construction, on the list of some equipment from the National Archives. Its purpose is to digitize and preserve historical documents to contribute to the growth of research in various fields of knowledge. It has equipment that reads and scans microfilms, maps, newspapers, and other documents up to size A1. Over the years, the Center has gained notoriety for the unparalleled quality of its work compared to other public and private digitization centers in the state of Paraná (MATSUOKA, 2025).
In 2009, the CDO digitized, in partnership with the Laboratory of Present Time Studies (LabTempo-UEM), 104 rolls of microfilms of documents about Brazil, produced by U.S. diplomacy between 1945 and 1959. The collection organized by the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) is composed of the following series: M1492 - Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Brazil, 1945-1949, 48 rolls; M1487, Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Political and National Defense Affairs of Brazil, 1950-1954, 14 rolls; M1489 - Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Political and National Defense Affairs of Brazil, 1950-1954, 34 rolls; and M1511, Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Political and National Defense Affairs of Brazil, 1955-1959, 8 rolls. It is noteworthy that NARA has not yet digitized these documents and that the CDO was the first to make them virtually available. Also in 2009, the almost complete collection of the military studies journal "Em Guarda," published in the 1930s-40s, was digitized. Other collections are in the process of being digitized, including the collection of plans and maps from the former Land and Cartography Institute of the State of Paraná (ITCF), with 700 originals from the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the last two years, since 2018, in partnership with the city hall of Maringá-PR, the newspaper Folha do Norte do Paraná (1962-1979) was digitized. Together with the scholarship holder Vanessa M. Matsuoka and the technician Edson M. da Silva from UEM, as well as the technical agent Hagá Galvão and the historian Elias Theodoro Mateus from the heritage sector of the city hall of Maringá, the work was carried out with due care and respect for the archive. This material is currently being processed for later publication on the CDO website.
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Historian Elias Theodoro scanning the newspaper Folha do Norte do Paraná (1962-1979).
Vanessa Mayumi teaching a course on what a historical document is, its care, and the importance of digitization.
Main Block - Documentation Center
Photo: Vanessa Mayumi
Professor of History (undergraduate and graduate) at the State University of Maringá/PR and a CNPq researcher with a productivity grant. PhD in History from the State University of Campinas, with a Sandwich Doctorate internship in Italy (1995-1996). He has postdoctoral studies at the Università di Roma (2010-2011), USP (2012), European University Institute in Florence (2014-2015), and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2019-2020). Currently, he is the coordinator of the Graduate Program in History at UEM. He was the winner of the 27th Paraná Science and Technology Award, Professor-Researcher Category, Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2014 and a visiting researcher in several other countries in Europe and the Americas.
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PhD in Philosophy and History of Education (1999) from the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP. She holds a degree in Pedagogy (1987) and a Master's in Fundamentals of Education (1993), both from the State University of Maringá - UEM. She completed a postdoctoral internship in Education (2010) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG.
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Postdoctoral in Environmental History from the State University of São Paulo (2017). PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2014). Master's in Social History from the University of São Paulo/USP (2009). Bachelor's in History from the State University of Londrina (2006). He has experience in the field of History, with an emphasis on the History of Sciences and Environment. Professor of the Communication and Multimedia Course (CMM) in the Department of Education Fundamentals (DFE) at the State University of Maringá (UEM). Professor of the Graduate Program in History at the State University of Maringá (PPH/UEM). Coordinator of the Research Laboratory in Education and Environmental History (LEHA) at UEM and the Laboratory of Present Time (LabTempo) at UEM.
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Holds a degree in History from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1982), a master's degree in Social History of Labor from the State University of Campinas (1990), a doctorate in Economic History from the University of São Paulo (1997), and postdoctoral studies at UFRJ (2001-2002) and Brown University (2015-2016). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University (2015-2016).
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Holds a degree in History from the State University of Maringá (1998-2001) and a PhD from the Federal Fluminense University (2002-2006). He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Canada (2008-2009). He was a Visiting Scholar at the College of Arts Science at New York University in New York, NY, United States (2015-2016), and at the Department of History at Harvard University (2020-2021). Evaluator of Undergraduate Courses (History area) of the Higher Education National Evaluation System - BASis, INEP/MEC (2006-2022). Editor-in-chief of the journal Esboços - Histórias em Contextos Globais - Qualis A2 (2015-2018; 2024-present). Associate Professor IV at the Department of History at the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC, where he teaches and supervises in the Undergraduate Cinema Course, the Undergraduate History Course, and the Graduate History Program.
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Completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in March 2021, researching photodocumentation research groups. He holds a PhD (2001) and a master's degree in Social History (1994), a bachelor's degree in History (1992), a specialization in Archival Organization (1990), and a bachelor's degree in History (1989); all degrees obtained at the University of São Paulo (USP). Since 2005, he has been a professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), where he teaches undergraduate courses in Archival Science. He was affiliated with the Graduate Program in Information Science at UnB from Aug/2008 to Dec/2024. Currently, he participates in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Goiás. He has served as a visiting professor in Spain (UCM), Colombia (UdeA, ITM, and ULaSalle), Argentina (UNLu and UnTreF), and Uruguay (UdelaR). In the 2000s, he was a guest professor in the specialization course in Archives at IEB/ECA-USP. Between 1994 and 2004, he was a professor in the History Department at the State University of Maringá.
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Holds a degree in History from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1988), a Master's in History from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1994), and a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2003), where he researched the social reintegration and collective memory of Brazilian veterans of World War II. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. He was the Coordinator of the Master's Program in Social History at the State University of Londrina (2006-2008; 2013-2016).
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Currently the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He earned a degree in Political Science from Earlham College, Indiana (1972), and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (1996). He has experience in the field of History, with an emphasis on the History of Republican Brazil, focusing primarily on the following topics: military dictatorship, Latin America, Brazil, human rights, and homosexuality.
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PhD in History from the State University of Maringá (UEM), with a research internship at Brown University (USA). He worked as a temporary professor of Theory and Philosophy of History and History of Brazil at the State University of Paraná (Unespar), Paranavaí campus (2020-2023). He holds a bachelor's degree (2016), a master's degree (2019), and a PhD (2024) in History from UEM. He focuses on the study of relations between Brazil and the United States in the 1960s, with interests including International Relations History, Brazilian Republican History, and Theory and Philosophy of History. He is a member of the Laboratory of Present Time Studies (UEM) and part of the Opening the Archives Project (Brown University-UEM), contributing to technical activities, research, and publications of diplomatic documents on Brazil-USA relations in the 20th century. He also worked as a technical fellow at Fundação Araucária in the Research Support Centers Complex (Comcap), at the Documentation Center (CDO) of UEM (2019-2020). He is currently a FAPESP post-doctoral fellow at USP.
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PhD in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (PPGH-UFSC/CAPES). Master's in History from the State University of Maringá (PPH-UEM/CAPES). Member of the Laboratory of Present Time Studies (LabTempo) and researcher in the United States History Studies Network (CNPq). Bachelor's degree in History from the Federal University of Sergipe. Areas of Interest: Contemporary History, Present Time History, Political History, History and Media, Cold War, 20th Century, USA-Latin America Relations.
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Adjunct Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the History Department of the Federal University of Vale do São Francisco (Univasf - Senhor do Bonfim/BA Campus). PhD in History from the State University of Maringá (2020). Master's in History from the State University of Maringá (2017). Bachelor's degree in History from the Federal University of Sergipe (2013). Member of the Laboratory of Present Time Studies (LabTempo-UEM) and the Research Group on Politics, State, and Latin America (GPPEAL-UEM). Collaborator of the Opening the Archives Project (UEM-Brown University) and the Present Time Studies Group (GET/CNPq/UFS).
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Permanent technician of the CCH
Holds a degree in History from the State University of Maringá with a specialization in Brazilian Anthropology and Social and Contemporary History from Faculdade Única de Ipatinga. She has an interest in Women's History, the relationship between History and Gender, Public History, and the History of Japan. Master's in Public History from the State University of Paraná as a researcher with an emphasis on Public History of Women's Movements in Japan in the early 20th century. She also works as a technical fellow at the Documentation Center of the Research Support Complex (CDO-COMCAP), belonging to the State University of Maringá.
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