2024-25 Graduate Student Research Fellow
About
Felipe Coimbra Moretti is a third-year student in the joint doctoral program in Anthropology and History. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Brasília (2018) and concluded his master’s in social anthropology at the National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021). His MA thesis researched the cultural and political memory of the Caldeirão, a small millenarian peasant commune located in the south of Ceará state, in the Brazilian Northeast. The Caldeirão’s outsized memory has attuned his research to the emancipatory power of the people’s memory.
Coimbra Moretti's current research asks: how have long trends in the global economy shaped territory in so-called peripheral countries? How does capitalist development and ruin form a landscape? During his time as an Eisenberg graduate fellow, he will be conducting archival and field research in the port city of Fortaleza, Ceará, and the hinterlands of the state, hoping to create and strengthen connections with interlocutors that will be crucial to longer fieldwork stays after his preliminary exams.
