A capoeira teacher since 1979, José Roberto Lima actively participates in several entities dedicated to the organization of this sport in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to being a member of the IPHAN Capoeira Safeguard Council since 2014.
Besides acting as a project consultant, Mestre Bebeto participates in CapoeiraHistory with an article about Mestre Rui Charuto in partnership with Gabriel Cid.
Antonio Luiz dos Santos Campos wrote for CapoeiraHistory the article Black Shirt.
Carlos Eugênio holds a BA in History from UFRJ and an MA and PhD from UNICAMP/SP. His research on 19th century capoeira and his books A negregada instituição (1999) and A capoeira escrava (2001) became core references for the history of capoeira. He also researched and published more widely about enslaved Africans in Brazil. Today he is an associate professor at UFRRJ.
Carlos Eugênio contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the post The party of order and disorder: capeiras and the political struggle at the imperial court of Rio de Janeiro 1870-1890.
Celso de Brito holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is nows Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI) and teaches on the Graduate Anthropology Programme. He has been a capoeira teacher since 2018, being responsible for the Grupo de Capoeira Angola Zimba in Teresina, Piauí.
In CapoeiraHistory, Celso published his article Capoeira politics in Teresina, Piauí: lineages, federations and political parties.
Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha, known as Mestre Cobra Mansa and Cobrinha, is an Angolan capoeira master formed by Mestre Moraes. He holds a BA in Physical Education from the Catholic University of Salvador and a PhD in Knowledge Dissemination from Federal University of Bahia. He has experience in the field of Physical Education, with an emphasis on Capoeira Angola and African martial arts, Bantu culture and Bantu cosmology identity and ancestry
Besides being a consultant for the project, Cinézio Peçanha, participates in CapoeiraHistory with his article, written in partnership with Ricardo Nascimento, The Letters: Neves e Sousa, Câmara Cascudo and the Engolo Myth.
Daniel Granada da Silva Ferreira is a professor in the Department of Natural and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He holds a PhD in Ethnology from the University of Paris and a PhD in History from the University of Essex (United Kingdom). He holds a Master’s degree in Studies of Latin American Societies from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, and a Master’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
He offered to CapoeiraHistory the article Capoeira, the transnational dialogue of bodies in motion.
Emmanuel Souffrin is an ethnologist and director of ESOI – Indian Ocean Ethnosociological Studies at Côte D’Azur University.
CapoeiraHistory published his text The moring between disappearance and reinvention, written in partnership with Loran Hoarau.
Fabio Araújo Fernandes holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). In capoeira, he is a disciple of Mestre Umoi, from Grupo União na Capoeira, and Contramestre in Freising, Germany.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s, in partnership with Luiz Augusto Leal.
Filipe Amado is a historian graduated from the University of São Paulo. He has a master’s degree in Brazilian Studies (IEB USP), with a dissertation on capoeira, pernada and samba in São Paulo. He is a capoeira teacher in the Projete Liberdade Capoeira group, master of drums in the carnival cordon Kolombolo Diá Piratininga, in addition to being a history teacher in public schools in São Paulo. Researcher and lecturer on the history of capoeira, Filipe Amado maintains the História, Capoeira e Samba.
CapoeiraHistory published two of his articles: Capoeira in the streets of São Paulo in the first decades of the 20th century (2021) and Capoeira: The “national art” of São Paulo’s ring (2022).
Gabriel da Silva Vidal Cid is a sociologist with a PhD in Sociology from UERJ. His research focus is capoeira, with interests in the fields of collective memory, cultural policies and cultural heritage. He is a teacher, researcher and consultant, focusing on studies in Sociology and Cultural History. He participates of the Coordination of the research group Arte, Cultura e Poder.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with two articles: Master Rui Charuto, in partnership with Mestre Bebeto, and The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande, with Myrian Sepúlveda.
Besides being a consultant for the project, Fernando Campelo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Mestre Gato, participates in CapoeiraHistory with the article The Senzala Group and the Capoeira Safeguard.
Geisa Rodrigues holds a Masters in Communication from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and a PhD in Literature from PUC-Rio. She has been a professor at the Department of Social Communication at UFF since 2003 and an associate researcher at BITS – Núcleo de Pesquisa, Produção e Extensão Multimídia da Comunicação Social.
She is the author of the most comprehensive study on Madame Satã: As múltiplas faces de Madame Satã: estéticas e políticas do corpo (Eduff, 2013).
She wrote for CapoeiraHistory Madame, the Satan of Lapa District, an introductory text to her book.
Jorge Columá has a PhD in Physical Education and Culture. He serves as Director of Teaching for the Brazilian Confederation of MMA Sports and as Consultant for the Working Group for the Safeguarding of Capoeira, for IPHAN/RJ. He is the author of Da Navalha ao Berimbau: Capoeira e Malandragem no Rio de Janeiro (Arole Cultural, 2020).
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article Master Zé Pedro, in partnership with Thiago de Souza and Rômulo Reis.
Julio Cesar de Tavares holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília, a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Postdoctoral Fellow as a Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Black Music Research Center in Chicago. He is a member of the Working Group for the Safeguarding of Capoeira at IPHAN’s Directorate of Intangible Heritage. He is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has written Dança de Guerra (Nandyala, 2013) and Gramáticas das Corporeidades Afrodiaspóricas: Ethnographic Perspectives (Appris, 2020).
He provided CapoeiraHistory with the article Where did we go, huh!
He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia and is a professor at the University of California, Davis. Among other publications, he is the author of Africanness in Action (Oxford University Press, 2021).
He presents in CapoeiraHistory his article The Musical Legacy of Mestre Paraná’s Capoeira.
Katya Welowski (Camarão) is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Dance at Duke University in the United States. She is the author of articles such as “Professionalizing Capoeira: The Politics of Play in Twenty-First-Century Brazil.” (Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 39, No. 2, 2012); “From ‘Moral Disease’ to ‘National Sport’: Race, Nation and Capoeira in Brazil.” (Sports Culture in Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) e “Imagining Brazil in Africa: capoeira’s transatlantic roots and routes” (Capoeira and Globalization: Interdisciplinary Studies of an Afro-Brazilian Cultural Form. Cambridge University Press).
She contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article Tourinho of Tavares Bastos: birth of a capoeirista.
Marcelo Backes Navarro Stotz is a Physical Education graduate, specialising in Research in Exercise Physiology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. He has a Masters in Physical Education from the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
He offered to CapoeiraHistory his article Master Sinhozinho.
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates is a graduated capoeira master from the Grupo Cativeiro Capoeira in 1996. He was founder and president of the Amazonian Federation of Capoeira and integrates its Council of Masters. He is founder and Master General of the Associação Cultural Desportiva e de Pesquisas da Capoeira – Grupo Matumbé Capoeira.
He was the Director of Culture of the Brazilian Confederation of Capoeira (1997 and 2007). He was recognised as a Master of Popular Knowledge in 2006 by the Palmares Foundation/Ministry of Culture.
He is Doctor and Master in Botany from the Federal University of Amazonas. He is a full researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). Holder of chair number 1 of the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas (Geographic and Historical Institute of Amazonas).
He offered CapoeiraHistory his article Prata Preta: an exiled capoeira.
Kristina Tohmo has a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology. She works as a producer for the Helinä Rautavaara Museum, in Finland.
She wrote for CapoeiraHistory the text Helinä Rautavaara’s Living Collections from Brazil.
Letícia Vidor de Sousa Reis holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Master’s and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP). From 1988 to 2006, she taught History at the Methodist University of Piracicaba and since 1986 has been a permanent teacher at the Edson Rontani school of the São Paulo state school system. She is the author of A capoeira no Brasil: o mundo de pernas para o ar (3rd ed. 2010).
CapoeiraHistory brings two of his articles: There are women in the roda: Female empowerment in capoeira (2020) and
Mestre Cosmo and his legacy to Piracicaba capoeira (2023).
Loran Hoarau is a historian. He works on research projects that relate History, Heritage and Identity(ies) in Réunion.
Hoarau published in CapoeiraHistory the text The moring between disappearance and reinvention, written in partnership with Emmanuel Souffrin.
Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal is a Doctor in Ethnic and African Studies, from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and Contramestre of Malungo Centro de Capoeira Angola. Take the opportunity to download his book Capoeira, identidade e gênero: ensaios sobre a história social da capoeira no Brasil, released in 2009.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s, in partnership with Fabio Fernandes.
Besides being a consultant for the project, Luiz Renato Vieira participates in CapoeiraHistory with his article Thoughts on Capoeira in Present Time.
He is a professor of Sociology (IFRJ – Duque de Caxias Campus) and a PhD candidate in Social Memory (UNIRIO/PPGMS). He holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR/UFRJ) and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (IFCS/UFRJ) and in Geography (UFRJ).
He published in CapoeiraHistory the article Master Paulo Gomes.
Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos is a professor at UERJ and coordinator of the Art, Culture and Power Research Group. He has a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research; Master’s degree in Sociology from IUPERJ and Bachelor’s degree in History from UFF.
His area of research is the sociology of culture. He has published articles and books on social theory, memory, identity, cultural practices and policies. His most recent publication is Memória Coletiva e Justiça Social (Garamond, 2021)
CapoeiraHistory published the article The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande, written with Gabriel Cid.
Besides being a consultant for the project, Mestre Nestor Capoeira participates in CapoeiraHistory with his study on Mestre Leopoldina, which we have published in 3 articles: Master Leopoldina – part 1; Master Leopoldina – part 2; Master Leopoldina – part 3.
Pedro Cunha holds a degree in Social Communication from the Catholic University of Santos and a Masters in Social History from the University of São Paulo. He currently works as Coordinator of Content and Innovation at Fundação Iochpe.
He is the author of the book Capoeiras e Valentões na História de São Paulo (Alameda, 2015) and
offered to CapoeiraHistory the article The Diaspora of Rio de Janeiro’s capoeiras during the First Republic: the case of São Paulo.
Ricardo Nascimento contributed to CapoeiraHistory with his article, in partnership with Cinézio Peçanha (Mestre Cobra Mansa), The Letters: Neves e Sousa, Câmara Cascudo and the Engolo Myth.
Roberto Pereira is a documentary filmmaker, capoeirista and holds a PhD in Comparative History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He directed and scripted O Dono da Capoeira (2014); Do Ringue aos Palcos and O Jogo da Navalha (2023). He was a doctoral trainee at Harvard University’s Department of History. He is author of the books: A capoeira do Maranhão: entre as décadas de 1870 e 1930 (IPHAN-MA, 2019) and Rodas Negras: capoeira, samba, teatro e identidade nacional (1930 – 1960) (Perspectiva, 2023).
He published in CapoeiraHistory the article Sailors, Moleques and “Heroes”: Capoeira in Maranhão in the First Republic.
Rômulo Costa Mattos wrote for CapoeiraHistory the articleThe construction of the memory about Sete Coroas, the most famous “criminal” of the First Republic.
Rômulo Reis has a PhD in Exercise and Sports Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master’s degree in Exercise and Sports Sciences and a specialist in Sports Administration and Marketing from Gama Filho University.
He wrote for CapoeiraHistory the article Master Zé Pedro, in partnership with Thiago de Souza and Jorge Columá.
Sara Delamont is from Cardiff University, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge.
Among her publications is Embodying Brazil: An Ethnography of Diasporic Capoeira, co-authored with Neil Stephens and Mestre Claudio Campos.
He presents in CapoeiraHistory his article An Old Attack on UK capoeira.
Victor Alvim Itahim Garcia, known as the Lobisomem, is a capoeirista, composer, percussionist and singer. He is also the poet who in 2020 featured CapoeiraHistory with the verses from the cordel As Valentias de Madame Satã and now also with the post The Adventures of a Capoeira in the Magical Realm of Cordel Literature.