Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana is a history major at PUC – Rio. He began working on the Science and Prejudice research project after returning from an international exchange student program, through which he studied history from January to July 2004 at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain). He has been an SI scholarship recipient (as a researcher) since August 2004. His sub-theme,“Race and gender in medical theses on epilepsy” is also an indication of his activity in black movements in Rio de Janeiro. He is a collaborator of a program to help disadvantaged blacks prepare for the college admissions tests, called PVNC. Aderivaldo sees history as a profession that mixes practical social concerns with academic life.

Ana Paula Barbosa was a history major at PUC-Rio in 2004, and subsequently decided to pursue another career. When she was studying history, she had a PIBIC scholarship and participated in the project during the first semester of 2004.

Carolina Bastos da Silva is a history major at PUC-Rio and was a PIBIC scholarship student from August 2004 to August 2005. Her future monograph entitled The representations of epileptics and epilepsy in medical theses from 1859 to 1906, relates to a sub-theme that she initiated. She presented her partial results at the PIBIC-PUC-Rio Meetings of 2005.
 

Débora Sol Ferreira Freire is a history major at PUC-Rio and has been an SI scholarship recipient of FAPERJ since April 2005. Débora develops a sub-theme that intends to delve more deeply into the relations between epilepsy and hysteria in the medical theses produced in Brazil between 1859 and 1906.

 

Leonardo Martins Barbosa is a history major at PUC-Rio and recipient of an SI scholarship with a grant for the Integrated Research Project/CNPq. He has participated in the project since August 2004. He is studying the relationship between epilepsy and the project of physicians family and social order at the end of the nineteenth century, a sub-theme he will consolidate in his monograph for graduation.


 

Maria Aparecida dos Santos is a history major at PUC-Rio. She has worked on the project since August 2003, becoming a Scientific Initiation (SI) scholarship student in February 2004. She develops the sub-theme “Science and Prejudice: Epilepsy, crime and forensic science”, which will be consolidated in her monograph for the conclusion of undergraduate studies. With this work she earned honors from PIBIC PUC-Rio for 2005 and honorable mention from CNPq for PIBIC scholarship recipients in the area of human sciences in 2005. Maria Aparecida is particularly interested in education and teaching, because she believes these are the most effective routes to reduce social disparities. For this reason, she is a volunteer in programs to help disadvantaged youths prepare for college entrance exams, where she coordinates the history area and teaches Brazilian history, which she intends to make her specialty. She also was a volunteer in organizing a community library in Heliópolis.

Mariana Lapagesse de Moura is a history major at PUC-Rio and received an SI scholarship for the Integrated Research Project/CNPq in October 2004. She works on a sub-theme that examines the social exclusion of epileptics in Brazilian society in the nineteenth century.

Rebecca Coscarelli: was admitted as both a history and theater major before deciding on the first option, joining the History Department as an undergraduate student in the first semester of 2004. She has participated in the project since the first semester of 2005, and in August that year received an SI scholarship for the Integrated Research Project/CNPq. Rebecca works on the sub-theme “Representations of the physician in theses on epilepsy. 1859-1906”.

Samantha Valério Parente Souza is a history major at PUC-Rio and was chosen in April 2005 to receive an SI scholarship from FAPERJ. Samantha studies the biography of Maria Isabel Alcântara Brasileira, Countess of Iguassú, illegitimate daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I and Marquesa de Santos, who wrote a brief autobiographical report that focused on her experience as an epileptic, and is also considered evidence that she indeed was a daughter of Brazil’s first emperor.

Clóvis Gorgônio de Amorim Júnior works on the Science and Prejudice research project as webmaster. With a B.S. in History from PUC-Rio, he then received an M.S. in Information Science from IBICT/ECO/UFRJ, and is now a part-time professor at two universities, Estácio de Sá and Gama Filho, besides working as a researcher into questions involving digital inclusion.

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Natália Dalier Bastos

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Anderson da Silva Ramos é aluno de graduação do Curso de História da PUC-Rio e é bolsista de IC do CNPq desde setembro de 2007. Anderson desenvolve um sub-tema que pretende analisar os preconceitos sobre a epilepsia presentes na obra Epiléptico do quadrinista francês David B. Os resultados parciais de seu trabalho foram apresentados em forma de poster nas jornadas PIBIC-PUC-Rio de 2008 e no CONIC 2008.