Moisés de Freitas Cunha

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Cluster Research on Global History
Moisés de Freitas Cunha
moisesdefreitascunha@fas.harvard.edu
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Moisés de Freitas Cunha is a PhD specialist in Urban Historical Studies, Fulbright Fellow, Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow, and holds a master's and doctorate from the PEPG – Postgraduate Studies Program in Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.

His postdoctoral studies (PUCSP/Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard), funded by FAPESP and IBRAM Motores e Máquinas, aim to measure historical, urban inequalities and environmental racism in cities throughout the Americas and Europe, among other objectives and expected results.

In short, his research aims to connect the colonial and slavery past to current urban inequalities with a focus on Brazil/Portugal and USA/England relations and analyzes the production and accumulation of wealth and capital (economic-financial, political, cultural, social, etc.) based on the commodities coffee and cotton that resulted in the emergence of São Paulo and New York, considering European immigration, urbanization and industrialization as the main vectors of growth.