Eduardo Santos Neumann

Eduardo Santos Neumann is a prominent historian and professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPGHIS/UFRGS), where he teaches in both the History Department and the Postgraduate Program. His academic credentials include a master's degree from PPGHIS (UFRGS), enhanced by research conducted in Spain through an Institute for Ibero-American Cooperation scholarship (1994), and a PhD in Social History from UFRJ (2005), which included archival research in the Iberian Peninsula. His expertise was further developed through postdoctoral studies at the University of Alcala, Spain (2015). As UFRGS's representative on the "Historia, Regiones y Fronteras" Committee of AUGM, he has made significant contributions to the field of colonial Latin American history, particularly focusing on indigenous literacy and writing practices in the Rio de la Plata region. His research specifically examines the impact of literacy in Jesuit-Guarani reductions and indigenous appropriation of writing, with his recent work exploring the Guaraní people's written responses to the 1750 Treaty of Madrid. His scholarly contributions include numerous publications in national and international journals, focusing on the social history of writing, Spanish American history, and indigenous history in colonial contexts