Benito Schmidt

Benito Schmidt is a historian and professor of historical theory and methodology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. He is the author of numerous works on the biographical genre, on the social history of memory, and on dictatorships in Latin America. His current research focuses on Brazilian and global LGBTQIA+ history, especially the "places of memory" associated with this group (museums, archives, monuments, etc.). He coordinates the "Close - Centro de Referência da História LGBTQIA+ do Rio Grande do Sul", a laboratory dedicated to research, teaching, documentation and dissemination of the LGBTQIA+ history of this Brazilian space.

Project

Title: História LGBTQIA+ au Brésil et en France

Hosting institution: EHESS

Selective bibliography

Pode o triângulo rosa falar? O lugar da perseguição aos homossexuais nas exposições de longa duração de dois museus do Holocausto. Revista Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade, v. 11, p. 78-93, 2022.

Biographies of Labor Activists: Trajectories, Daringness, and Challenges. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY, v. 1, p. 1-9, 2022 (with Alexandre Fortes).

BARRETT, JAMES R. ; COWAN, BENJAMIN A. ; SCHMIDT, BENITO ; SEIDMAN, GAY ; FRENCH, JOHN D. . Lula and His Politics of Cunning. The American Historical Review, v. 126, p. 1574-1591, 2021.

History and Memory of Dissident Sexualities from Latin America. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), v. 5, p. 69-89, 2021 (with Rubens Mascarenhas Neto).