Augusto Rocha

  • PhD Student
  • EARLY MODERN EUROPE / SEPHARDIC / TRANSATLANTIC
Augusto Rocha

Advisor: Professor Dauverd • Augusto earned his undergraduate teaching license in History in 2017 and his bachelor's degree in History in 2020 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He holds a specialization in Higher Education Teaching from Faculdades QI (2019). He completed his first master's degree in history in 2021 at the Federal University of Santa Maria, within the research field of History, Power, and Culture (Francisco de Paula Souza de Mendonça Júnior, Ph.D.). His second master's degree, focused on Political History, was completed at the State University of Maringá in 2022 (Francisco César Alves Ferraz, Ph.D.). Between 2021 and 2022, he worked as an instructor at the Ritter dos Reis University Center (UniRitter) in Porto Alegre, where he taught courses in History as well as International Affairs and Design. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Celine Dauverd. His doctoral research focuses on pre-modern European history, examining the transnational relations between Jewish-Portuguese communities in Northern Europe (the Dutch Republic, England, and Hamburg) and the Atlantic conflicts within the Iberian Empires. His work pays particular attention to the Dutch Brazilian experience (1630–1654) in the context of early modern Europe.

His research has been supported by the History Department, Jewish Studies Department, the Center for British and Irish Studies, and the Center for Humanities and Arts at CU Boulder. Beyond the University of Colorado Boulder, Augusto also had the support of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil, and the Bassi Scholarship.
Publications
 
2025
Rocha, Augusto. “O Legado da Rainha Isabella para a Formação de uma Espanha Católica.” Virtù em perspectiva: reflexões acerca do Medievo e dos Renascimentos, edited by Francisco de Paula Souza de Mendonça Júnior.
 
2023
Rocha, Augusto. “Journalistic coverage of the Central High Crisis (1957). Ciencia Nueva: Revista de Historia y Política, vol. 7, no.1, 2023, pp. 1-18, 2023.
 
2022
Rocha, Augusto. “O Valor Político da Cristandade para a Identidade Espanhola.” Sacralidades Medievais: Narrativas, Memórias e Representações, edited by Simone Cristina Schmaltz de Rezende e Silva & Renata Cristina de Sousa Nascimento. Goiânia: Tempestiva, vol. 1, 2022, p. 561-583.
Rocha, Augusto. “A Guerra Fria e os Movimentos Civis: O Macarthismo e o Medo Comunista.” História: Espaços, Poder, Cultura e Sociedade, edited by William Roslindo Paranhos. Ponta Grossa: Atena Editora, vol. 3, 2022, 110-120.
Rocha, Augusto. “O Passado da Crise de Central High, Civil Rights e Educação nos Estados Unidos, presente nas Memórias do Arkansas.” Aedos: Revista do Corpo Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da UFRGS (Online), vol. 13, no.30, 2022, pp. 54-70.
 
2021
Rocha, Augusto. “São Eulógio de Córdoba e um dos caminhos para o Mito Político do Islã.” História em Curso – Revista do Curso de História da PUC Minas, vol. 5, 2021, pp. 38-59.
Rocha, Augusto. “The 1957 Central High Crisis: Civil Rights and Education in the United States as a Public History Experience through the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.” Ciencia Nueva: Revista de Historia y Política, vol 5, no.1, 2021, pp. 180-197.
Rocha, Augusto. “A Hagiografia enquanto uma Problemática Biográfica: O Caso do Monge Perfectus.” Revista História e Cultura, vol. 10, no.2, 2021, pp. 361-379.