Bio
I hold a PhD in Politics from the University of York (2024), MA in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Programme (2017), and a BA in International Relations from the Federal University of Pampa (2014). Currently, I am a First Book Award fellow at the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF), based at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. During this fellowship (2026-2027), I am working on my book, The New Christian Militarism: Evangelicalism, The Police, and Far-Right Order-Building in Brazil, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2028.
Research
I am an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of religion, militarism, and far-right politics. My current research agenda focuses on the global dimensions of Evangelical activism within police and military institutions, and now I am scaling this research to internationally by including the US and South Africa. My work draws on extensive ethnographic experience in Brazil, Western Sahara, Egypt and England.
Teaching
I have worked as a lecturer at King’s College London (International Development) and at the Federal University of Pelotas (International Relations), and as a teaching assistant at the University of York (International Relations and Sociology). I have experience in postgraduate and undergraduate settings. Some of the modules I have convened include Introduction to Qualitative Methods; Democracy, Authoritarianism and the State in Development; International Security; International Relations Theory; Geopolitics.
Publications
(forthcoming, 2028). The New Christian Militarism: Evangelicalism, the Police, and Far-Right Order-Building in Brazil. Manchester University Press. Global Studies of the Far-Right Series (book).
(2026). Policing Souls, Redeeming Nations: Evangelical Activism and the Far-Right Counterpolitics of Emotions in the Brazilian Police. International Political Sociology. (with Nicolai Gellwitzki). https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olag038
(2025). Cultivating collaboration: Reflections on introducing Problem-Based Learning in the ‘wicked world’ of contemporary Higher Education. Sociology, 0(0). (With Edmund Coleman-Fountain et. al.) https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385251380765
(2025). The Pacification Model in Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro as a Prefiguration of Bolsonarismo? Reflections on the Far-Right Turn and the Role of Military-Religious Actors in Security Governance in Brazil. European Journal of International Security, 0(0), 1-23. (with João Finazzi). https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2024.55
(2024). Conspiracy theories and anti-environmentalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. In Irma Allen et al. Political Ecologies of the Far-Right: Fanning the Flames, 174-194. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (with Ricardo Severo and Sérgio Barcellos). https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167804.00014
(2024) ‘Manifest to the Nation – Brazil for Brazilians’: The Evangelical Parliamentary Front’s Activism in Education. Religião & Sociedade, 44(2): 1-27. (with Ricardo G. Severo and Elizabeth Azevedo). https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-04382024e440202
(2023). The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 51, n. 3, July 2023: 892-919. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298231198992
(2022). Why the Far-Right Will Continue to Radicalise in Brazil. Alternautas (University of Warwick Press), v.9, p.252 - 261, 2022. https://doi.org/10.31273/an.v9i2.1278
(2018) The Margins of the Margin: Brazilian Rhetoric for not recognizing the Arab Saharawi Democratic Republic. Africana Studia: International Journal of African Studies, 1(28), pp 1-21 (with Renatho Costa)
(2020). Brief Remarks on Far-Right Studies: Introduction to the Special Volume. Revista Eletrônica Interações Sociais (REIS), v.4, p.5 - 13, 2020. (with Ricardo G. Severo).
(2020) Other Enemies: the problem of war for Carl Schmitt and Pierre Clastres. Cadernos de Relações Internacionais e Defesa, 2(2), pp. 1-22.
(2020) No Way to Gaza: A Chronicle of Adventure and Fraud under the Egyptian Blockade. London: MEMO Publishers (with Renatho Costa and Lucas B. Diaz). Portuguese edition published in 2021 by Monitor do Oriente.
(2019) Interview with Michael Apple. Educação em Revista, v. 35. pp. 1-14 (with Ricardo G. Severo). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698226416
(2019) Between Authoritarian Governments and Fascist Aspirations: from the international context to Brazil. Germinal: Marxismo e Educação em Debate, 11(2), pp. 16-24 (with Ricardo G. Severo and Sérgio B. Barcellos). https://doi.org/10.9771/gmed.v11i2.33196
(2019) The Diffusion Network of the School without Party project on Facebook and Instagram: conservatism and reactionarism in the Brazilian conjuncture. Educ. Real. vol.44 no.3, pp. 1-28 (with Ricardo G. Severo and Suzane Gonçalves). https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-623684073
(2019) Religion and the New Wars Debate. Contexto Internacional, 41(1), pp. 163-186 (with Renatho Costa). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2019410100009
(2018) The slow construction of Brazil’s South-American identity: regionalism and integration in Brazil’s discourse at the UN’s General Assembly. In: André Luiz Reis and Eduardo Swartman (eds.), Inserção Internacional do Brasil: Desafios da Política Externa e de Defesa. Porto Alegre : Editora UFRGS, pp. 100-135 (with Fernando P. de Mattos and Eduardo Swartman)
(2017) Independence or War in Western Sahara. Instituto Humanitas Online, v.17, n. 501, p.70 – 71 (with Renatho Costa).
(2014) The United States and the Maghreb-Sahel Region: securitization, militarization and terrorism. Leviathan - Cadernos de Pesquisa Política, v.5, p.124 – 150 (with Fernando P. de Mattos). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-4485.lev.2014.132348
(2014) Western Sahara: history, geopolitics and perspectives for the ‘last colony’.Cadernos de Relações Internacionais, v.7, p.118 – 147. 10.17771/PUCRio.CadRI.23174
(2016) Preliminary remarks towards a research agenda on Religion and International Relations. In: Anna Carletti and Marcos A. Ferreira (orgs.), Religião e Relações Internacionais: Dos Debates Teóricos ao Papel do Cristianismo e do Islã. Paraná : Juruá Editora, 2016, pp. 53-86.
PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS
(2017) An Inquiry into the Moral and Religious Dimensions of International Politics: the Thought and Contribution of Rui Barbosa. Contexto Internacional, 39(1), pp. 53-73, 2017. Translated from Portuguese to English. Author: Raphael Spode.
(2016) Religion in International Relations: Theory and Practice. In: Anna Carletti and Marcos A. Ferreira (org.), Religião e Relações Internacionais: Dos Debates Teóricos ao Papel do Cristianismo e do Islã. Paraná: Juruá Editora. Translated from English to Portuguese. Author: Jeffrey Haynes.
(2015) Securitization and Desecuritization. Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais, 4(8), pp. 237-275. Translated from English to Portuguese with Fernando P. de Mattos Author: Ole Waever.
(2013) Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics. Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais, 2(3), pp. 420-473. Translated from English to Portuguese: Author: Alexander Wendt.