Vitor Izecksohn

Professor Titular do Instituto de História e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Pesquisador do CNPq e Cientista do Nosso Estado (FAPERJ). Doutor em História pela Universidade de New Hampshire. Fez pós-doutorado no Departamento de História da Brown University . Foi professor visitante do Departamento de História da Brown University e da Elliot School of International Affairs da George Washington University. Foi bolsista do Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, da Comissão Fulbright (2011) e (2018), do Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition/Yale University, da John Carter Brown Library , do Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, da Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington e do International Center for Jefferson Studies. Por duas vezes foi bolsista da Comissão Fulbright. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem os estudos comparativos sobre militares e sobre a administração pública no Brasil, na Argentina e nos Estados Unidos durante o século XIX, com ênfase na História do Recrutamento militar, nas comparações a respeito do impacto das guerras externas sobre os processos de formação dos Estados nacionais e no pensamento político no Brasil e nas Américas. Através de comparações realiza pesquisas sobre a expansão do poder público, especialmente no que se refere ao avanço dos processos de extração de impostos e de soldados. Seu mais recente livro é "Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870", publicado pela University of Virginia Press. O livro foi laureado com a menção honrosa da Brazil Section da Latin American Studies Association em 2015.

Vitor Izecksohn is Full professor in the Graduate Program of Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His has a PhD in History from the University of New Hampshire and did his post doc at Brown University where he also served as a visiting professor under a Fulbright Fellowship in 2011. He was a Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York Historical Society) and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University). Prof. Izecksohn was also a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library (2016), served as visiting professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs/ George Washington University (2018) and was a visiting fellow at the Das Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Germany. He is the author of, Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870 (University of Virginia Press, 2014) as well as two earlier books published in Brazil: A History of the Brazilian Liberal Political Though in the Twentieth Century (1990), and The Chorus of Disagreement: The Paraguayan War and the Professional Nucleus of the Brazilian Corps of Officers(2002). He co-authored Nova História Militar Brasileira (2004). These books, along with his chapters and journal articles, engage in renewed debates about the New Brazilian Military History and the process of internationalization in the American Civil War. His research current research, ?Race, and Militias in colonial Rio de Janeiro and Massachusetts," analyzes how wartime recruitment refracted political dynamics at local, regional and Imperial levels.​