Dr Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva

Dr Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2973
Email
madds1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Matheus Duarte holds a Ph.D. in History/History of Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His main research interests lay at the intersection of the History of Science, Global History, and Brazilian History. In 2020 he joined the University of St Andrews as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘The Global War against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis’. In the project, Matheus investigates the social and scientific history of rat-catching practices developed in Brazil, the USA, and in the French and British Empires during the first half of the 20th century. He analyses how anti-rat campaigns led to the invention of spatial and ecological concepts, such as sylvatic plague and rural plague. He has authored papers and chapters in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French on the global history of microbiology, the history of plague, and the history of science in Latin America. He co-edited the books “Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires (1750-1945) (Routledge, 2023)” and “Rural and Agrarian Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspective. (Routledge, forthcoming)”. He is currently adapting his thesis into the monograph “When Plague Immunized the World: Vaccines, Sera, and the Globalization of Microbiology Revisited (1894-1920)” (working title).

Selected publications

 

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