Dr. Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza
Current Research Projects
- From Data to Data (I). Protocols from the Ibicaba Project: mechanical cleaning, imaging, and metadata with controlled vocabularies (jointly with Leonardo Gardenal).
- From Data to Data (II). Reflections on researchers' choices in generating new sources and datasets for the Humanities and the Applied Social Sciences (jointly with Leonardo Gardenal).
- "For how long still?" Counting yearly workdays and workday lengths in Brazilian agriculture (1890-1970): New micro-evidence (jointly with Thales Zamberlan).
- Migratory responses to war and conflict in global, long-run perspective, 1820s-2020s (jointly with Jörg Baten)
- 2024
- 2024
- 2022-2023
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019-2022
- 2019
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Institute for Economic & Social History
Associate researcher – DAAD-Prime Fellow at University of Tübingen
Visiting assistant professor – DAAD-Prime Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Lecturer: “Development Economics: Introduction & Applications” and Aarhus Summer School 2022 at Aarhus University
Lecturer: “Development Economics”, Spring 2020 at Jacobs University Bremen
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Institute for Economic & Social History
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Ibero-American Institute
- 2015-2019
- 2012-2014
- 2007-2012
Ph.D. – Development Economics from University of Göttingen
DFG's Research Training Group 1723 – Globalization and Development
Thesis: “From bonded laborers to educated citizens? Immigration, labor markets and human capital in São Paulo, Brazil (1820-2010)”
M.A. – Development Economics from University of Göttingen
Thesis: “The combined effect of institutions and human capital for economic development: a case study of German immigration to São Paulo, Brazil (1840-1929)”
B.A. – Economics from University of São Paulo
- Since 2024
- Since 2024
- Since 2023
- Since 2021
- Since 2019
- Since 2015
- 2019-2022
- 2018-2022
Brazilian Lab, Inequalities Hub – Princeton University
Associate Researcher
Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Reginal Grant: “Accounting for the countryside: rural & environmental history in the coffee economy of Southeastern Brazil (1890-1990)”
Academic & managerial coordinator
German-speaking Press in Brazil: A Digital Humanities Approach – University of Tübingen
Associate researcher & consultant
Grupo de Pesquisa em História e Evolução da Agricultura e Complexos Agroindustriais (GEPHAC) – University of São Paulo
Associate researcher
Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Campinas (IHGGC)
International correspondent
Historical Household Budgets Project
Associate researcher
Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Principal Investigator – Project "Labor, livelihood, and immigration in a Brazilian plantation: the archives of Ibicaba farm"
Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) – University of Göttingen
Associate researcher