Sandro Dutra e Silva (Evangelical University of Goiás and State University of Goiás), “History and Ecology in the Territorial Imagination of the Brazilian Cerrado” (Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies)

Sandro Dutra e Silva has a PhD in History from the University of Brasília (UnB). He works as a professor and researcher at the Evangelical University of Goiás and the State University of Goiás. Coordinator of the Cerrado Environmental History Laboratory. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (2015-2016) and is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University (2024-2025).

 

He is editor-in-chief of HALAC, the journal of the Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA). He was editor of some collections, including the collection Environmental History (volumes I, II and III), published in Brazil between 2012 and 2020 (Rio de Janeiro: Garamond). Author of several articles on the agrarian and environmental history of Brazil, with an emphasis on the Cerrado biome. Author of the work “In the West, the earth and the sky: the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Central Brazil” (Rio de Janeiro: Mauad X, 2017). His studies have sought to analyze the relationship between society and nature in Central Brazil, dialoguing with the history of agriculture, history of science and environmental history.

 

Part of The Council on Latin American.& Iberian Studies’ Brazilian Studies Lunchtime Series. Lunch will be provided.