Prof. Dr. Ricardo Borrmann

Vita

In 2024, he conducted archival research in New York City for his second book as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington D.C. From October 2024 to March 2025, he will be substituting for Professor Delia González de Reufels at the Chair of Latin American History at the University of Bremen.

Ricardo Borrmann is currently affiliated with the Chair of Contemporary History at the Université de Neuchâtel and is working on the project " Neuchâtel face à la colonisation: circulations, intrications et mémoire," under the supervision of Professors Kristina Schulz and Matthieu Gillabert, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project aims to investigate Neuchâtel's involvement in slavery and the slave trade.

Ricardo Borrmann holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a master’s degree in political theory and history from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). He obtained a PhD in cultural history and history of science from Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU). His doctoral thesis, published in 2018 by Franz Steiner Verlag (Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte), is titled Tobias Barreto, Sílvio Romero und die Deutschen: Die Rezeption deutschsprachiger Autoren in der brasilianischen Rechtsgeschichte (1869-1889).

In 2018, he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen and remains a member of the Lab for Audio-Visual Media and Historiography, led by Professor Delia González de Reufels (Chair of Latin American History). That same year, he also taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Sciences, where he offered courses on the history of eugenics and media in Latin America.

Until 2023, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Latin American History in the Department of History at the University of Bremen. His postdoctoral project focused on reconstructing the transnational and Latin American intellectual network of Brazilian film critic Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916-1977), funded by the Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) at the University of Bremen for early-career researchers.

As an assistant to Professor Delia González de Reufels (Chair of Latin American History), he participated in the project "Win a Tutor: Didactic E-Learning Application Scenarios" at the Multimedia Teaching Center (ZMML), aimed at using new digital technologies and explanatory videos in the teaching of history. He also served as the Erasmus Program Coordinator in the Department of History at the University of Bremen.

In Brazil, he worked as a research assistant at the Laboratório Cidade e Poder (LCP/UFF), coordinated by Professors Gizlene Neder and Gisálio Cerqueira Filho, and as an editorial assistant for Passagens - Revue Internationale d'Histoire Politique et Culture Juridique (https://periodicos.uff.br/revistapassagens). He is currently a member of the Editorial Committee of this journal as well as of Direito em Movimento. He is also an associate researcher at the Laboratório Cidade e Poder (LCP/UFF) and has been a member of the National Association of University Research in History (ANPUH) since 2009, as well as of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).