Matheus Serva Pereira

Matheus Serva Pereira holds a Ph.D. in African Social History from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), with a scholarship from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp). Author of the book “Grandiosos batuques: tensions, arrangements and colonial experiences in Mozambique (1890-1940)”. Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2020. He was awarded a CEEC individual contract in the FCT 2021 CEEC call. In the context of this award, since May 2022 he has been a Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), where he developed a project with the title African experiences of assimilation in Mozambique: histories and memories (1910 - 2010). Pereira is also a researcher on the project INDICO: Indigenous colonial archives: micro-histories and comparisons, funded by national funds by FCT (grant reference PTDC/HAR-HIS/28577/2017), based at the ICS-ULisboa, Portugal, and the Marie Curie project RESISTANCE. He has produced post-doctorate research (2017-2019), funded by Fapesp, at the Unicamp History Department, and with a research internship at ICS-ULisboa. The main topics of research are Social History, History of Labor, History of Africa, History of Mozambique, European colonialism in Africa, African urbanities, music, leisure, and citizenship in African contexts, and post-colonial studies. It is a member of the Africas: Research Group: society, politics, and culture (UERJ / UFRJ), Atlantic Observatories (UFV) and Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Societies Research Group (ICS-ULisboa). Creator and producer of the podcast Impérios, Colonialismos e Sociedades Pós-coloniais. He is one of the editor one of the journal Práticas da História: Journal on theory, historiography and uses of the past and he was elected to the board of the Brazilian African Association (ABE-África). Member of the editorial team at Empires, Colonialism and Postcolonial societies Investigation group website.

Works in the field of the colonial press 
(2020). Pereira, Matheus Serva. Grandiosos batuques: tensões, arranjos e experiências coloniais em Moçambique (1890-1940). Lisboa: Imprensa de História Contemporânea.
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(2013). Pereira, Matheus Serva. “Beiço a mais, miolos a menos...: representação, repressão e lazer dos grupos africanos subalternos nas páginas da imprensa de Lourenço Marques (1890-1910)”. In Nascimento, A.; Bittencourt, M.; Domingos, N.; Melo, V. Andrade de (Eds.). Esporte e lazer na África: novos olhares. Rio de Janeiro: Editora 7 Letras, 37-61. 

(2013). Pereira, Matheus Serva. “Anúncios e comunicados: 80 réis por linha”: propaganda e cotidiano nas páginas de O Africano (1909-1919)”. Ribeiro, Alexandre Vieira; Gebara, Alexsander (Ed.). Estudos africanos: múltiplas abordagens. Niterói: Editora UFF, 2013, p. 73-97. 

Fields of interest
African History; Mozambique History; Portuguese Colonialism; National Movements.

Key words
Mozambique; African press; citizenship; music.