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Tiago Fernandes Maranhão is an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans, where he teaches courses on Latin America, Gender & Nation, and Global History. His research centers on Brazilian history, particularly the role of physical culture in nation-building through racial and political frameworks.
Dr. Maranhão earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in History from Vanderbilt University (2020, 2017), an M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Lisbon (2006), and a B.A. in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2004). Prior to his U.S. appointments, he worked as a college professor in Brazil for several years.
His research interests span Brazilian History, Latin American History, and the History of Physical Culture. He investigates how physical education and sports were weaponized as tools for nation-building and racial engineering in 19th-20th century Brazil, with critical attention to eugenics, biotypology, and transnational knowledge flows across the Atlantic World.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals obsessive focus on body politics in Brazilian modernity. His work bridges 19th-century schooling practices, military biotypology programs, and World Cup racial narratives to expose how physical culture served as a mechanism for state control, racial hierarchy construction, and national identity formation.
Dr. Maranhão co-coordinates the Mellon Foundation-funded Transatlantic Bodies Project, a Digital Humanities initiative mapping connections between Brazilian bodily histories and Atlantic intellectual currents. His current book manuscript Molding the Body, Forging the Nation examines how policymakers weaponized physical education to build Brazil's racialized body politic from 1822-1930.
