Biography

PhD in History of Science and Health from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, with a period in the History Department of King’s College London (United Kingdom), on a CAPES/PDSE scholarship. He has a Master’s degree in the History of Science and Health from the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, specialising in the Dissemination of Science, Technology and Health at the Museum of Life, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, and is a Historian and Museologist from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio). He researches in the areas of History of Science, Science Communication, Digital Humanities, and Museology. He works mainly analysing the circulation of people, artefacts and knowledge in colonial spaces in the 19th century, investigating the relationships between travellers and local agents in the field and the contributions of these agents to the construction of scientific knowledge and the formation of Natural History collections, understanding the results of scientific journeys as dialogical co-productions between different communities.

Research fields

• History of science
• Science communication
• Digital humanities
• Museology

Selected publications

• Antunes, Anderson Pereira. A rede dos invisíveis: o papel da sociabilidade nas expedições científicas do Oitocentos. São Luís: Editora UEMA, 2022.
• Pereira Antunes, Anderson. “Social Network Analysis in the History of Sciences. Visualising Sociability in Scientific Expeditions with Gephi .” Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales 2 (2021): 13-30. [link] 🔓
• Antunes, Anderson Pereira. “Saberes locais e a formação de coleções de história natural nas expedições científicas do oitocentos.” Anais do Museu Histórico Nacional 55 (2021): 1-18. [link] 🔓
• Antunes, Anderson Pereira, Luisa Massarani & Ildeu de Castro Moreira. “‘Botánicos Y zoólogos prácticos’: Aportes De Los Nativos amazónicos a Las Expediciones De Historia Natural (1846-1865).” Historia Crítica 1 (2019): 137-60. [link] 🔓

Main projects

• Researcher in the project “KNOW-AFRICA — Knowledge networks in 19th century Africa: A Digital Humanities approach to colonial encounters and local knowledge in the narratives of Portuguese expeditions (1853-1888)” — coordinated by Sara Albuquerque (IHC — University of Évora) and and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.01599.PTDC). 2024- [link]