Angela Figueiredo

Angela Figueiredo is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), with additional appointments in the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies (PÓS-AFRO) and the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender, Women, and Feminism (PPGNEIM) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Sociology from IUPERJ (2003), thesis: "Black Middle Class: Trajectories and Profiles" (published by EDUFBA, 2012)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2006)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley (2016)

Dr. Figueiredo's research critically examines Black feminist epistemologies, decolonial theory, and structural inequalities, with empirical focus on the Black middle class in Brazil and knowledge production within African diaspora contexts. Her work bridges sociology, gender studies, and critical race theory to analyze intersectional oppression in Latin American societies.

She founded and coordinates the Angela Davis Collective—a Black feminist research group in Brazil—and the International Black Feminist Decolonial School, which advance decolonial pedagogy and transnational feminist activism through scholarly networks and community engagement.