Fabricio Lyrio Santos is an Associate Professor of History at the Master¿s Programme of History of Africa, Diaspora and Indigenous Peoples at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) and Permanent Professor at the Master¿s Programme of Regional and Local History at the State University of Bahia (UNEB). He holds a Ph.D. degree in History at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and attended Post-Doctoral research at the New University of Lisboa (NOVA). His main areas of scientific interest are Colonial Brazil, the Society of Jesus, Catholicism, Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples. He has published articles in prestiged jounals and the following books: Da catequese à civilização: colonização e povos indígenas na Bahia (2014) and Te Deum laudamus: A expulsão dos jesuítas da Bahia, 1758-1763 (2019). And he has organized the volume Os Índios na História da Bahia (2016). The research groups he participates in are: 1) Disciplining souls, disciplining society - The Catholic Church in Colonial Bahia; 2) Mapping the abuse of the Rights of Indigenous People in Northeast Brazil; and 3) RESISTANCE - Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries.