Dominique Santos was educated in UFG - Universidade Federal de Goiás - in Brazil, where he completed his Ph.D. on Ancient History/Late Antiquity in 2012. On the occasion, he has done an internship at the Department of History and Archives of UCC - University College Dublin, Ireland, financially supported by Brazilian CAPES Foundation. Santos has also worked for the Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack Project (www.confessio.ie) of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), translating St. Patrick's Confessio and Epistola into Brazilian Portuguese and helping to review the bibliography on Patrician Studies. In 2017, he was granted a Sabbatical Leave scholarship also by CAPES to be a Visiting Scholar at OCLA - Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, Trinity College, Oxford University. Since 2012, Santos is a Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History at FURB - University of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, where he coordinates LABEAM, the Blumenauense Lab. for Ancient and Medieval Studies. He is a research member of LEIR - Lab. for Roman Empire Studies and ABEI - Brazilian Association for Irish Studies, both from USP - University of São Paulo, and the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies of Irish Embassy and USP - University of São Paulo. Santos primary area of research is social order and border conflict in the last years of the Roman Empire: Exchanges and Connections between Hibernia and Britannia Romana (and Post-Roman Britain). He is also mainly interested in the genealogy and trajectory of the concept of Late Antiquity; Ogham Stones, and Cambro-Hiberno-Roman Epigraphy; Christianization and literacy in Early Christian Ireland; the debate about the Celts, Celticity and Celtology; and the teaching and researching of Ancient History and Late Antiquity in Brazil.
Possui Graduação (2005), Mestrado (2008) e Doutorado (2012) em História pela Universidade Federal de Goiás, com período sanduíche na University College Dublin, Irlanda. Foi pesquisador visitante no Centro de Estudos sobre Antiguidade Tardia da Universidade de Oxford, Inglaterra (2017), onde fez estágio de Pós-Doutoramento. É Professor da FURB - Universidade de Blumenau, na qual leciona História Antiga e Medieval e coordena o LABEAM - Laboratório Blumenauense de Estudos Antigos e Medievais, e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Tem experiência na área de História Antiga, trabalhando com os seguintes temas: Ordem Social e Fronteiras nos anos finais do Império Romano: intercâmbios e conexões entre a Britânia, Hibernia e o Mediterrâneo; Celtas-Celticidade-Celtologia; A relação entre Antiguidade, Teoria da História e História da Historiografia; História da História Antiga; Ensino e Pesquisa de História Antiga no Brasil.
