Andrea Daher is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Researcher at the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq) since 2006. PhD in History from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1995, she was Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) from 1995 to 1997; Full Professor at UFRJ, from 1998 to 2018; and Visiting Professor at the University of Brasília in 2020-2022. Her publications include Les Singularités de la France Equinoxiale (2002), L’Oralité perdue (2016), and the direction of collective works, including Oral por escrito (2018). She held Alfonse Dupront Chair (2010) and Sergio Buarque de Hollanda Chair in Social Sciences of Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2010-2014) at Paris-Sorbonne University. At UFRJ, she was responsible for academic exchange activities in social sciences, such as Claude Bernard Chair, in partnership with Collège de France and French Academy of Sciences. She supervised a significant number of Master’s, Doctoral and Post-doctoral Thesis at the Graduate Program in Social History. As Coordinator of the Research Laboratory in the History of Literary Practices at the Institute of History of UFRJ, she works in the promotion of national and international networks of historians and social scientists.

In February 2023, she joins the Paris IAS as part of the French Institutes for advanced Study fellowship program - FIAS  - co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945408. Her fellowship also benefits from the support of the RFIEA+ LABEX, with a national funding (Grant ANR-11-LABX-0027-01). 

Research interests

Cultural and Intellectual History, in particular the history of representation practices focused on the uses of writing and its relationship with orality in modern and contemporary times.