Prof. Dr. Paulo Cruz Terra

2008–2012
PhD in History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, Thesis: "Citizenship and Work: The Streetcar Workers in Rio de Janeiro (1870–1906)," Supervisor: Gladys Sabina Ribeiro

2005–2007
M.A. in History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, Dissertation: "Are All the Transport Workers Black? Porters and Coachmen in Rio de Janeiro (1824–1870)," Supervisor: Gladys Sabina Ribeiro

2000–2005
B.A. in History, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

since 2013
Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Undergraduate classes at the History Department (2013–2016: Campos dos Goytacazes; since 2016: Niterói), Graduate classes at History's Graduation Program (since 2016)

03–06/2011 
Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon, Portugal

since 2023
Research Link Programme, Alexander von Humboldt Project

since 2022
Universal Fellowship from the CNPq, Brazil

since 2022
Research Fellowship from the CNPq, Brazil

since 2021  
"Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado" from Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro - FAPERJ

2022
Elected Affiliated Member of Brazilian Academy of Science

2019–2022
Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship 

2017–2019
Scholarship of the Tutorial Education Program (PET), Ministry of Education (MEC), Brazil

2014
Research grant, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

2013–2014
Research fellowship, General Secretariat of the Presidency, Brazil

2013
Installation assistance grant, Foundation Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Brazil

2012
Professor Afonso Carlos Marques dos Santos Prize, General Archive of Rio de Janeiro City (Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro) for my Ph. D. dissertation

• Free and Unfree Labour
  The conceptualisation of "free" and "unfree" labour and of the "free/unfree" labour divide has been the topic of lively scholarly debates in recent decades. The links between coercion and labour are not only crucial to our understanding of historical societies, but also speak to ongoing developments in the contemporary global economy. The Cost Action "Free and Unfree Labour" seeks to further the study of coerced labour by bringing together scholars who study all kind of labour relations and the unfreedom they entail – e.g. chattel slavery, wage labour, debt bondage, convict labour, indentured work, sharecropping, household labour, military impressment. etc.
  Coordinator: Juliane Schiel
  Members: Paulo Cruz Terra, Babacar Fall, Christian De Vito, Jeannine Bischoff, Joseph C. Miller, Mathias van Rossum 

• Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations in the period 1500–2000
  The International Institute of Social History is working on a Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations in the period 1500–2000. In this project we want to make an inventory of all types of labour relations worldwide, varying from slavery, indentured labour and share cropping, to free wage labour and self-employment from 1500 up until today. Our aim is first to gather statistical data on the occurrence of all types of labour relations in all parts of the world during five cross-sections in time, i.e. 1500, 1650, 1800, 1900 and 2000.
  Coordinators: Karin Hofmeester, Jan Lucassen
  Members: Paulo Cruz Terra, Andreas Eckert, Babacar Fall, Christine Moll-Murata, Raquel Varela, Stefano Bellucci, et alli.
  Funding: Gerda Henkel Stiftung

• Labour Relations in Brazil (1800–2000)
  This project aims to quantify and qualitatively analyse the labour relations not only in recent Brazil but in a broader frame, that is, between the beginning of the 19th century and the end of the 20th century.
  Coordinator: Marcelo Badaró Mattos
  Members: Paulo Cruz Terra, Kênia Miranda e Demian Melo
  Funding: The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)

• Workers and the City: The Legislation of the City Council of Rio de Janeiro
  The present project aims to analyse how the issue of labour and workers appeared in the legislation of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, during the Imperial period (1822–1889). It seeks to investigate which occupations were indicated on the legislation, the distinctions established between enslaved and free workers, as well as how the Council tried to regulate and control the work in the city.
  Coordinator: Paulo Cruz Terra
  Funding: Foundation Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)

• Labour Relations in Portugal and the Lusophone World 1800–2000: Continuity and Change
  This project aims at quantifying, analysing and understanding labour relations in Portugal and in the Lusophone world in the contemporary period, pointing out how labour and industrial relations have been modified and adapted to the social, economic and political evolution of Portugal and the Lusophone world over the last two centuries.
  Coordinator: Raquel Varela
  Members: Paulo Cruz Terra, Cátia Teixeira, Filipa da Silva, Paulo Cruz Terra, Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Sónia Ferreira, Tarcísio Botelho
  Funding: Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

• Social Movements and the Public Sphere Impacts and Challenges of Civil Society Participation in the Formulation and Implementation of Governmental Policies
  This project seeks to understand the recent transformations of Brazilian social movements and to reflect on the differences in composition, temporal rhythms and specific repertoires of each movement, taking into account also the processes of historical formation of a differentiated range of movements, such as the trade unions and identity movements of black people, indigenous people, women, homosexuals, etc.
  Coordinator: José Sergio Leite Lopes
  Members: Paulo Cruz Terra, Beatriz Herédia, José Ricardo Ramalho, Regina Novaes, Sonia Giacomini, et alli.
  Funding: General Secretariat of the Presidency