Prof. Cláudio Pinheiro
Former Member of the International Faculty
Professor of African History, Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Prof. Cláudio Pinheiro is a Professor of African History at the Institute of History of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2013 he is also the chairman of the Sephis Programme (South-South Exchange Programme for the Research on the History of Development) Amsterdam/Rio de Janeiro.
Contribution to the KPA IV:
Prof. Pinheiro research interests are connected with different thematic foci of the Key Profile Area Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Transformations in the Global South such as colonialism, post-colonialism, slavery, India, knowledge circulation, epistemology and social theory.