Júnia Ferreira Furtado
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Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Belo Horizonte, 1960) is a Brazilian historian and university professor. She retired from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2016.[1]
After graduating in 1983 with a degree in History from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Júnia Furtado completed a specialization in Modern and Contemporary History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. She then completed a Master's degree in Social History from the Universidade de São Paulo (1991), where she went on to defend her doctoral degree in 1996.[2]
In 2000, Júnia Furtado completed a post-doctorate at Princeton University. In 2008 and 2009, she completed another post-doctorate at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.[2]
In 2003, Furtado published her best-known work Chica da Silva e o contratador de diamantes, (English: Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century).[3]
She has been a professor at the UFMG since 1992, and at the Universidade de Lisboa since 2005.
