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Postdoctoral Researcher with the ECO Amazonia project at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK). Previously held postdoctoral positions at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University (Sweden), and the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil). He holds a PhD in History of Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), a master’s degree in History of Science from the same institution, a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, and a bachelor’s degree in History from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). During his doctoral studies, he conducted research at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, the Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library (Sweden), and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a research associate at the Center for Global Knowledge Studies and the World History Subject Group, both at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Intellectual History and the History of Science, with an emphasis on topics such as the History of Anthropology, Ethno-sciences, Race and Science, Nature and Culture, and Science and Religion.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Raphael Bezerra da Silva Uchôa

Citation names

  • Uchôa, Raphael

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BA13-1B20-11D4
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3484-8336

Email addresses

  • rbsuchoa@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/08/15 - 2018/08/15
Concluded
 História da Ciência (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in História da Ciência
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo Centro Simão Mathias de Estudos em História da Ciência, Brazil
"A ruína dos povos: raça americana e saber selvagem na ciência de Carl F.Ph. von Martius (1794-1868)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018
Concluded
 Master of Arts (Master)
University of Cambridge Darwin College, United Kingdom
2012/08/15 - 2014/06/30
Concluded
 História da Ciência (Master)
Major in História da Ciência
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo Centro Simão Mathias de Estudos em História da Ciência, Brazil
" A Antítese Essencial: T.H. Huxley e o lugar da humanidade na natureza" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/03/01 - 2010/12/01
Concluded
 História (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
2010
Concluded
 História (Licence)
Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/10/01 - 2023/09/01 Researcher (Research) University of Cambridge Darwin College, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Darwin College, United Kingdom
2019/03/01 - 2019/09/01 Postdoc (Research) Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Campus de Pesquisa, Brazil
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
2018/08/01 - 2019/04/01 Postdoc (Research) Uppsala universitet Institutionen för idé och lärdomshistoria, Sweden

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - 2022 Assistant (University Teacher) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Pós-doutorado Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Consultant - Project “Imagining Futures”: selection committee for project proposals aimed at Latin America for the 2023 Imagining Futures funding cycles. University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2015 - 2018 Associate Editor. Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017 - 2019 De-centered science: Transits of mining chemistry, medicine and natural history in Europe and Latin America
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PhD Student Fellow
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019 - Current Science and its Others: Histories of Ethno-Science
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Researcher
University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, United Kingdom
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Uchôa, Raphael; Cruz, Kalynka. "A Starlink e o colonialismo digital na Amazônia". In Amazônia Digital, edited by Lucia Santaella; Kalynka Cruz. 2024.
    Published
  2. n\a. "Imperial melancholy and the subversion of ruins in the Amazon". In New Earth Histories, edited by Alison Bashford; Emily M. Kern; Adam Bobbette. Chicago University Press, 2023.
    In press
  3. "(Eu)genética: entre fissuras e continuidades". 2014.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.23042.79045
  4. "Eugenia: Ciência de uma época". 2014.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.36464.56327
Book review
  1. Raphael Uchôa. "BANKS-LEITE, Luci; GALVÃO, Izabel; DAINEZ, Débora (Eds.). O garoto selvagem e o dr. Jean Itard: história e diálogos contemporâneos. Campinas, SP: Mercado de Letras. 2017. 282 p.". 13, 3 (2018): 187-192. https://doi.org/10.1590/2176-457338204.
    10.1590/2176-457338204
  2. Uchôa, Raphael. "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture". Review of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (2017): https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52796.
Conference abstract
  1. "Past and present: a 19th-century debate on ‘the organ of mind’ as a possible source for the current debate on the neurobiological basis of consciousness. Presented at the Workshop: The Brain, the Mind, the Person". 2016.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.29465.31844
Conference paper
  1. "O Lugar da humanidade na natureza nas páginas da Anthropological Review". 2014.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.18638.77123
Journal article
  1. Uchôa, Raphael; Waisse, Silvia. "Sources for the History of Ethnosciences: James Mooney and the Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees". History of Anthropology Review 48 (2024): https://histanthro.org/notes/sources-for-the-history-of-ethnosciences/.
    Published
  2. Uchôa, Raphael; Müller-Wille, Staffan; Mercer, Harriet. "Science and Its Others: Histories of Ethnoscience". History of Anthropology Review 48 (2024): https://histanthro.org/notes/science-and-its-others/.
    Published
  3. Uchôa, Raphael. "Savage knowledge,” ethnobotany, and the colonial ways of producing reservoirs of indigenous ontologies". Journal of Social Ontology (2024): https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/7693.
    Open access • Accepted
  4. Andrew Buskell; Edwin Etieyibo; Catherine Kendig; Raphael Uchôa; Robert A. Wilson. "How to Think With The Global South: Essay Review of Ludwig, David, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube, Luana Poliseli, and Luis Reyes-Galindo, eds. Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science. Routledge, 2021, pp.i-xviii+319". Philosophy of Science (2022): https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2022.89.
    10.1017/psa.2022.89
  5. Raphael Uchôa. "From the state of nature to the state of ruins: ‘American race’ and ‘savage knowledge’ according to Carl von Martius". Annals of Science (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2021.1990999.
    10.1080/00033790.2021.1990999
  6. "Notas históricas e historiográficas sobre uma complexa relação entre ciência e religião". REVISTA NURES (2016): https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/nures/article/view/32168.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.31918.20804
  7. Uchôa, Raphael. "Ephraim Chambers and the disciplinary emergence of a science of man in the 18th century". Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science (2016): https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/circumhc/article/view/30568.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.11785.54889
  8. Uchôa, Raphael; Waisse, Silvia. "The “Essential Antithesis” T.H. Huxley and humankind’s place in nature". Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (2015): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322137198_The_Essential_Antithesis_TH_Huxley_and_humankind%27s_place_in_nature?channel=doi&linkId=5a4708440f7e9ba868aa5a5b&showFulltext=true.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.17914.80321
Journal issue
  1. Raphael B.S. Uchôa; Luciana Costa Lima Thomaz. "Editorial". Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science (2018): https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-7651.2018v22;video.
    10.23925/1980-7651.2018v22;video
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 Discussant at the Workshop: Rural and Agrarian Disease Knowledge Rural and Agrarian Disease Knowledge
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2023 Del "conocimiento salvaje" a las etnociencias, o las formas coloniales de producir reservas de conocimiento indígena en el Amazonas Itinerante, seminario de Historia e historiografía de las ciencias y las tecnologías
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2022 “Savage knowledge,” ethnosciences, and the colonial ways of producing reservoirs of indigenous ontologies Workshop: Cultures and Ontologies
University of Cambridge
2020 Imperial melancholy and the subversion of ruins in the Amazon Workshop: New Earth Histories, Australia
University of New South Wales
2019 The vegetal kingdom in transit: Richard Spruce's Amazonian collection goes digital or new forms of digital colonialism? Workshop: Cross-Atlantic Expeditions and their Heritage
The Historical Library of Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish Society of Medicine
2019 From the State of Nature to the State of Ruins Research Seminar - Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria
Uppsala Universitet
2018 Listening to the whisper of ‘savage knowledge’ through travel naturalists: the case of Carl von Martius (1794-1868) Workshop: Encountering Knowledge: Geographies, Concepts and Materials from the Early Modern Period to the Present
University of Cambridge
2017 Ruins of people’: the antiquity of the ‘American man’ between the Iberian and the Germanic world in the works by Carl von Martius” 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST)
2017 Classification of humans and Carl von Martius programme for writing a Global history of Brazil Research Seminar – Institutionen för kultur och estetik
Stockholm Universitet
2016 HOMO. Nosce te ipsum: classification of humans and Carl von Martius programme for writing the Global history of Brazil Research Seminar - Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria
Uppsala Universitet
2016 Ephraim Chambers and the disciplinary emergence of a science of man in the 18th century Seminário Nacional de História da Ciência e da Tecnologia, Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2016 Past and present: a 19th-century debate on ‘the organ of mind’ as a possible source for the current debate on the neurobiological basis of consciousness Workshop – The Brain, the Mind, the Person
University of Oxford/Universidade Federal da Bahia
2015 Man’s Place in Nature and T.H. Huxley’s Basis for Biology The origin and concept of life
University of Oxford/The Galapagos Academic Institute for Arts and Sciences
2014 The Essential Antithesis: T.H. Huxley and humankind's place in nature Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, and Procedures in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo/University of Campinas/ Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Workshop: Vegetal Humanities in the Amazon (2022)
2019 - Current Ethno-Science Reading Group (2019)
2019 - Current Workshop: “Cross-Atlantic Expeditions and their Heritage: working with European things in South America and South American things in Europe (2019) Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2018 - Current Workshop: “Encountering Knowledge: Geographies, Concepts and Materials from the Early Modern Period to the Present” (2018)
2022 - 2022 Workshop: ‘Science and its Others: Histories of Ethno-Science’ (2022) University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, United Kingdom