Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande

Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande

Email: rafaelazcasagrande@gmail.com

Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a Master’s degree in Latin American Historical Studies from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil. She is currently a teacher in Basic Education within the private school sector. Her Master’s dissertation, entitled The Parochial Clergy of Rio Grande, Rio Pardo and Santo Amaro in the Eighteenth Century: Composition, Reproduction and Trajectories, was supported by a research grant awarded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Main interests and research topics: Religious History; Parochial Clergy; Portuguese America; Rio Grande de São Pedro; Eighteenth Century; Scalar Variation; Prosopography; Palaeography.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-3333 

Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RafaelaCasagrande 

Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.