New PhD Fellow in History Eliza Militz de Souza
Eliza Militz de Souza, PhD Fellow in History at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). With her academic training entirely completed at UFSM, where she also obtained her Master's (2020) and Bachelor's (2015) degrees in History, her research focuses on the areas of Intellectual History and Popular Education. Her research trajectory is centered on intellectual history and the study of concepts, ranging from the study of the concept of freedom in the work of Paulo Freire to contemporary investigations on Yanomami intellectuals and counter-anthropocentric perspectives in the theory of history. In addition to her work as a researcher, she has experience teaching in public schools and is involved in extension projects aimed at the democratization of knowledge. Her research at PRIVACY focuses on analyzing the intellectual activity of the Yanomami, a Brazilian indigenous group who lives in the Amazon forest, and how their cosmovision contributes to breaking the anthropocentric paradigm. She studies Yanomami ontology and how it challenges the categories of "private” and "public". Her research also focuses on the study of dreams as a vehicle for the construction and sharing of Yanomami knowledge. She was drawn to PRIVACY because of their interdisciplinary approach to thinking about different modes of privacy. The concept of privacy varies across different cultures and contexts. Therefore, is it possible to think about privacy as a way to understand how the public and private spheres manifest themselves in the Yanomami world, challenging the hegemony of modern Western thought.