Natália da Silva Perez serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Humanities, specifically within the SAXO-Institute focusing on History, while maintaining an external appointment as Assistant Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam since December 2022. Her institutional affiliations span both Danish and Dutch academic contexts through the Racialized Motherhood project (2023-2028), a collaboration funded by Denmark's Independent Research Fund Sapere Aude grant. Her research centers on transnational and comparative cultural history from 1600-1900, with dual methodological strands: Historical analysis of women's experiences across social strata, examining interactions with families, communities, and authorities Digital humanities innovation through natural language processing tools adapted for multilingual historical documents, specifically addressing algorithmic bias mitigation Current projects analyze early newspaper representations of motherhood across colonial contexts using data-driven comparative methods. Her publication portfolio reveals consistent thematic development across three interconnected domains: Privacy Studies : Exploring knowledge production boundaries in early modern contexts Colonial Intersectionality : Analyzing race, gender, and legal autonomy across Atlantic networks Digital Methodologies : Developing NLP frameworks for historical text analysis with low-resource language adaptation Recent outputs demonstrate increasing methodological sophistication in blending traditional historical analysis with computational approaches. Her scientific recognition includes: Sapere Aude grant for Racialized Motherhood project (2023-2028) Leadership of international research networks including Privacy & Colonialism and Free Womb Laws Roundtable initiatives Perez actively supervises PhD, master's, and bachelor's students in women's history, intersectionality, and digital humanities methodologies, while organizing significant academic events like the Practices of Privacy conference series. Her collaborative work spans institutions across Europe, with particular strength in Dutch-Brazilian historical connections through her analysis of figures like Juliana from Recife. She directs research teams exploring algorithmic bias in historical text analysis and transnational motherhood representations, working within Copenhagen's digital humanities infrastructure while maintaining Rotterdam connections through the Racialized Motherhood project.



