PD Dr. Nina Schneider

Research Associate, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen

Vita

Since November 2018 | Research Group Leader at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen.

2021 | Habilitation in Modern History at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2015–2018 | Coordinator of the Research Area 'Migration and Citizenship' at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne.

February–October 2015 | Visiting Scholar at the University of Brasília, Brazil.

February 2013–January 2015 | Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz.

August 2012–January 2013 | Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), Columbia University.

2011 | PhD in History (‘The Official Propaganda of the Civilian-Military Regime in Brazil, 1968-1979’), University of Essex.

 

Focus of Work

Anti-Child Labour Protagonists, Campaigns, and Social Movement(s)
Dictatorship and Violence in Cold War Latin America in transnational perspective (Brazil, Southern Cone)
Public History (Film and TV, Oral History, Truth Commissions, Digital Human Rights Archives), Post-authoritarian Reckoning Processes, 'Transitional Justice'
Biographies, Global History, Entangled and Comparative History, Media History

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

Schneider, Nina (2020). 'Bolsonaro in Power: Failed Memory Politics in post-authoritarian Brazil?' in: Coming to terms with the Past, Modern Languages Open (2020): 1–12.

Schneider, Nina (2019). 'Origins of Child Rights Governance: The example of early Child Labour Legislation in the United States and Brazil' in: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, vol. 26, no. 3, 289–303.

Schneider, Nina (2019). 'Professional Historical Writing and Human Rights Engagement in the twenty-first Century: Innovative Approaches and their Dilemmas', in: Stefan Berger, (ed.) The Engaged Historian: Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the historical Profession (Making Sense of History Series) (New York: Berghahn), 205–220.

Schneider, Nina (ed.) (2019). The Brazilian Truth Commission: Local, National and Global Perspectives. Oxford/New York: Berghahn.

Schneider, Nina (2014). Brazilian Propaganda: Legitimizing an Authorian Regime. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Keywords

Critical Human and Social Rights History in Global Perspective, Socio-political and Cultural History of Latin America 15.-21. Ct, Regional Expertise: Americas (particularly Brazil)

Casegroup

Languages and Cultural Studies, Art and Design