slinsferraz@uol.com.br

She is Associate Professor at the Department of History of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil), and underwent doctoral studies at the University of Bielefeld, from 1974 to 1980, under the supervision of Professor Johannes Helweg. She received her Ph.D. in History in 1992 at the University of São Paulo, supervised by Professor José Jobson Arruda. She was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of History and Geography of the University of Salamanca/Spain, during the first semester of 2002. Among her publications, the following stand out: Sertão Fronteira do Medo (Ed. UFPE, 2015); República Brasileira em Debate (Ed. UFPE, 2010); Fontes Repatriadas, Colonial History notes (Ed. UFPE, 2006); Sertão um Espaço Construído (Ed. Universitária Salamanca, 2005); Caneca, Acusação e Defesa (Ed. UFPE, 2000); Liberais & Liberais (Ed. of UFPE, 1996).