Elizeu Clementino de Souza

Elizeu Clementino de Souza is a part-time Associate Professor at the State University of Bahia (UNEB) and holds affiliations with multiple institutions including the Laboratoire EXPERICE at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and the Brazilian Association for Biographical Research (BIOgraph). They coordinate the GRAFHO/UNEB research group and serve on editorial and administrative boards in education research.

• Education and contemporaneity graduate program faculty
• Researcher with CNPq Level 1B fellowship
• Active in biographical research methodology

Specializing in biographical research, their work bridges education, health, and rural studies. Key themes include teacher training in rural contexts, chronic illness narratives, and identity reconfiguration through storytelling. They employ narrative-based interventions and ethnographic approaches to explore educational spaces and temporalities.

Their recent publications focus on rural education challenges, biographical health studies, and methodological innovations. Articles analyze multigrade classrooms, pandemic impacts on teaching, and self-writing practices among educators and patients. Common keywords include educational ethnography, rural teacher resilience, and illness identity construction.

• CNPq Fellowship Level 1B
• Treasurer of BIOgraph
• Editorial roles in Brazilian biographical research journals