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I am a historian of medicine and science studying pandemics, emerging infectious diseases, and zoonosis, focusing on Brazil, South America, and global history. After completing my PhD at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (September 2020), I joined the University of 黑料吃瓜网 as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wellcome Trust-funded project 鈥楾he Global War against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis鈥�. In the project, I investigate the social and scientific history of rat-catching practices developed in Brazil, the French, British and Portuguese empires during the first half of the twentieth century. I investigate how anti-rat campaigns led to the invention of spatial and ecological concepts, such as disease reservoirs, sylvatic plague and rural plague. I have published articles in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish in the main international journals of my field, including Isis, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Medical Anthropology, Asclepio and Manguinhos. I have co-edited the special issues "Rethinking the History of Microbiology" (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2024) and "Disease Reservoirs: Anthropological and Historical Approaches" (Medical Anthropology, 2023) and the books 鈥淏eyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires (1750-1945) (Routledge, 2023)鈥� and 鈥淩ural Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspective" (Routledge, 2024). I am currently adapting my thesis into the monograph 鈥淲hen Plague Connected the World: Anew Global History of Microbiology (1890-1920)鈥�.
Selected publications
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 19 Sept 2025, In: Revue d'Histoire Maritime. 35
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Javier Martinez, F. & Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 3 Jun 2025, In: Dynamis. 45, 1, p. 11-25 15 p.
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Skotnes-Brown, J. & Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 2 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Advance articles, 22 p.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. & Gallay-Keller, M., 23 Jun 2025, In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 47, p. 1-12 12 p., 31.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 10 Apr 2025, In: H-Environment, H-Net Reviews.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 3 Jun 2025, In: Dynamis. 45, 1, p. 109-134 26 p.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 7 Oct 2024, Rural disease knowledge: anthropological and historical perspectives. Alves Duarte da Silva, M. & Lynteris, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 173-199 27 p.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 21 Feb 2024, Empire, nation-building, and the age of tropical medicine, 1885鈥�1960. Capocci, M. & Cozzoli, D. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 161-180 20 p. (Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history).
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. & Lynteris, C., 7 Oct 2024, Rural disease knowledge: anthropological and historical perspectives. Duarte da Silva, M. A. & Lynteris, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-16 16 p.
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Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. & Goodman, J., 22 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 46, 26 p., 32.
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