Elisa Fruhauf Garcia

Elisa Frühauf Garcia is Professor of History at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), where she received her PhD in History. She has done postdoctoral research at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. A CNPq Research Productivity Fellow and Faperj Scientist of Our State, she has received numerous research grants, including those from the Fundación Carolina, the Newberry Library, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History. She has also been a visiting professor at the State University of Feira de Santana (Bahia). An expert on the indigenous peoples of Brazil, her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Adopting a long-term perspective, her work connects history, cultural heritage, and different uses of the past.