The Sociedade Brasileira de Teoria e História da Historiografia (SBTHH) announced last Friday (14) the results of the 2025 edition of its Doctoral Thesis, Master’s Thesis, and Undergraduate Monograph Competition. The competition selected four doctoral theses, four master’s theses, and four undergraduate monographs for publication, distributed among the following subareas: Theory of History, General History of Historiography, History of Brazilian Historiography, and Theory and Teaching of History.

Works defended between January 1, 2023, and April 30, 2025, were eligible. The submissions were evaluated by specialized committees for each subarea, which selected the best work in each category and, where applicable, awarded honorable mentions.

The award-winning texts will be published digitally as e-books by SBTHH in the second half of 2026, in partnership with Editora Milfontes. In 2025, SBTHH’s Doctoral Thesis, Master’s Thesis, and Undergraduate Monograph Competition introduced named academic awards honoring historians considered important to the consolidation of Theory of History and History of Historiography in Brazil.

The award-winning works and honorable mentions in each subarea are listed below:

Theory and Teaching of History

Doctoral thesis

Award-winning work: A multiperspectividade no pensamento Histórico de jovens estudantes

Author: Lorena Marques Dagostin (UFPR)

Advisor: Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos Schmidt

Honorable mention: Uma decolonialidade à brasileira: Perspectivas decoloniais entre historiadores(as) no Brasil

Author: Silmária Reis dos Santos (UFBA)

Advisor: Ana Carolina Barbosa Pereira

Master’s thesis

Award-winning work: Pequeno Mapa do Tempo de crise: Ensino de História, Afetos e Negacionismos na Era Digital

Author: André Fialho de Oliveira (UFC)

Advisor: Ana Rita Fonteles Duarte

Honorable mention: História do Tempo Presente nos livros didáticos: A campanha das Diretas Já (1985-1995)

Author: Letícia Ribeiro Afonso (UFOP)

Advisor: Luísa Rauter Pereira

Undergraduate monograph

There were no submissions.

General History of Historiography

Doctoral thesis – Lucia Maria Paschoal Guimarães Award

Award-winning work: A American Historical Association e a profissionalização da história nos Estados Unidos – 1884-1915

Author: Lívia Amarante Gallo (UNISINOS)

Advisor: Hernán Ramiro Ramírez

1st honorable mention: Theory and practice of historical method in David Hume

Author: Pedro Eduardo Batista Ferreira da Silva (UnB)

Advisor: Arthur Alfaix Assis

2nd honorable mention: Making History: historiadores e a emergência do campo profissional nos Estados Unidos (1880-1930)

Author: Jônatas Oliveira Pantoja (USP)

Advisor: Sergio Miceli

3rd honorable mention: Trazendo espantalhos e criando corvos: Leandro Narloch e os usos do politicamente (in)correto como forma de governo da história neoliberal e atualista no Brasil (2009-2022)

Author: Diego de Freitas Ungari (UFOP)

Advisor: Valdei Lopes de Araujo

Master’s thesis – Raquel Glezer Award

No works were submitted.

Undergraduate monograph – Silvia Regina Ferraz Petersen Award

Award-winning workNo works were nominated.

Honorable mention: Bunmeiron no Gairyaku: a teoria civilizatória de Fukuzawa Yukichi (1875)

Author: Eder Milesky (UFSC)

Advisor: Flávia Florentino Varella

History of Brazilian Historiography

Doctoral thesis – Lucia Maria Paschoal Guimarães Award

Award-winning work: A mulher na minha pele: um estudo do feminino, dos espectros e das histórias da historiografia brasileira

Author: Ana Paula Silva Santana (UFOP)

Advisor: Marcelo de Mello Rangel

Honorable mention: Um monumento historiográfico: a construção de cânones e memórias disciplinares para a História das Mulheres e das Relações de Gênero no Brasil (1987-2012)

Author: Benedito Inácio Ribeiro Junior (UNESP/Assis)

Advisor: Helio Rebello Cardoso Jr.

Master’s thesis – Raquel Glezer Award

Award-winning work: A emergência da cordialidade como conceito histórico-social no Brasil

Author: Mariana Cunha Fontes (UFOP)

Advisor: Sérgio Ricardo da Mata

Honorable mention: História das mulheres no Brasil: a trajetória intelectual de Margareth Rago

Author: Franciele Teixeira Vidal (UFOP)

Advisor: Luísa Rauter Pereira

Undergraduate monograph – Silvia Regina Ferraz Petersen Award

Award-winning workThere were no indicated works.

Honorable mention: A representação das classes populares na obra “História da Independência do Brasil” de Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen

Author: Tainara Aparecida de Carvalho (UFOP)

Advisor: Luísa Rauter Pereira

Theory of History

Doctoral thesis – Estêvão de Rezende Martins Award

Award-winning work: “A conversa começa aqui”. Padrões de autoridade nos fóruns de história do Reddit (2008-2018)

Author: Daniela Linkevicius de Andrade (UnB)

Advisor: Arthur Alfaix Assis

1st honorable mention: História podem libertar sujeitos? O pluralismo histórico de Hayden White (1928-2018)

Author: Edmo Videira Neto (UNIRIO)

Advisor: Pedro Spinola Pereira Caldas

2nd honorable mention: Identidade, história de um conceito e o conceito de história: uma arqueologia nos dicionários de língua portuguesa

Author: Renato de Araújo Monteiro (UFSC)

Advisor: Rodrigo Bragio Bonaldo

Master’s thesis – Francisco Calazans Falcon Award

Award-winning work: No pulso do mundo: produção passional e práxis revolucionária na poesia de resistência à ocupação nazista e ao governo de Vichy

Author: Lina Alegria dos Santos Reis (Unicamp)

Advisor: Maria Stella Martins Bresciani

Honorable mention: Escrita e morte: reflexões a partir dos romances K.: Relato de uma busca (2011), de Bernardo Kucinski, e Soledad no Recife (2009), de Urariano Mota

Author: Gabriel Almeida Bizzo (UERJ)

Advisor: Beatriz de Moraes Vieira

Undergraduate monograph – Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo Award

Award-winning work: Controlar o vivível, sonhar o indizível: o diário íntimo de Couto de Magalhães

Author: Keversson William Silva Moura (UEMG)

Advisor: Thamara de Oliveira Rodrigues

Honorable mentionThere were no indicated works.