“Gilson Mateus is M.A. in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He participated in the Paleography and Digital Humanities training program at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from UFRN and a technological degree in Administration from CENEP/SEEC.
He serves as a researcher and vocal with the Red de Humanidades Digitales at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), registered under RDH0249. He is a member of the Laboratory of Experimentation in Social History (LEHS/UFRN), where his work centers on Digital Humanities, databases, agrarian history in Latin America, and the legal history, with particular attention to land property rights.
Gilson is also a researcher with the project Mapping Ethnographic Collections in Brazil at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), which maps and disseminates ethnographic collections from Indigenous and traditional communities held in Brazilian museums. In addition, he is affiliated with the Laboratory of History of Mining and Cultural Heritage at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG).
He is the Editor-Manager (2025–2026) of the journal Espacialidades (UFRN/PPGH) and a member of the editorial board of CLAD, affiliated with the Ibero-American School of Administration and Public Policies (EIAPP).
His research interests include Latin American history, agrarian history and environmental history, migration processes in the Americas, (post) colonialism, decolonization, and the comparative history of colonialism. He also has an interest in social museology, ethnographic collections, and digital humanities.”