Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Eleusio D Filipe

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literary and cultural studies
  • postcolonial literature and culture
  • popular culture
  • intellectual history and popular culture
  • environmental history

Educational Background

  • Ph.D Candidate: Hispanic Luso Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics/Minor: Development Studies and Social Change, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  • M.A. in History/Minor: Development Studies and Social Change: History, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2003.
  • Licenciatura em História: History, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 2000.
  • Certificate in Sociology of Identities & Tradition and Modernity in Mozambique: Sociology, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 1998.
  • Certificate in Sociology of Power Relations in Mozambique: Sociology, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 1997.
  • Certificate in Sociology of Ethnicity: Sociology, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 1996.
  • Certificate in Sociology of Mass Beliefs in Mozambique: Sociology, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, 1995.

Research Activities

  • Doctoral dissertation research: Popular Music, Identity and Nationalism in Mozambique, 1940s-1989: Compton Peace Fellowship; ICGC

Creative Activities

  • “The Dam Brought Us Hunger:” A History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam, Work, Aldeamentos, and the Social, Economic and Environmental Transformations in Mutarara and Sena, 1969-2000, University of Minnesota, 2003,137p (Master's Thesis): MacArthur Predissertation Travel and Research Grant & History Department Travel and Research Grant, 2002
  • Colonato do Sábiè, Contexto e Implicações sobre a Economia Camponesa, 1956-1974, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Faculdade de Letras, Agosto de 2000, 90pgs. (Tese de Licenciatura) (translation: “Sábiè Colonato, Context and Implications for the Peasant Economy, 1956-1974”): Ford Foundation/NET Research Grant , 1999 - 2000

Professional Activities

  • Consultant: ALUKA/ITHAKA HARBORS, INC. (New York), Project: Struggles for Liberation in Southern Africa , June 2005 - June 2008
  • Assistant Lecturer, Topics of Contemporary History of Mozambique: February - June 2008
  • Assistant Lecturer, Postcolonial African History (also taught module Towards a Cultural History of Africa): August - December 2007
  • Assistant lecturer, History of Africa from 1850s to 1950s): February - June 2004
  • Consultant: Streamline Land Delimitation and Demarcation Processes in National Parks in Mozambique with special Reference to Limpopo National Park. Funded by the World Bank for the Ministry of Tourism in Mozambique (Áreas de Conservação Transfronteiriça- Transfrontier Conservation Areas in the Ministry of Tourism) , 2004
  • Assistant to the Director of Land Unit Studies and Development (NET): 1998 - 2000

Awards

  • Compton Peace Fellowship; ICGC Scholar/Compton Peace Fellow, 2006 -
  • MacArthur Scholars Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, 2000 - 2003

Courses Taught

  • Portuguese 3003 (Advanced Composition and Conversation)
  • Portuguese 3001 (Portuguese for Spanish Speakers)
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