Maria Renata Duran has an undergraduate degree in history from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), a Masers on "Echoes of the Pulpit. Sacred discourse in the time of d. João VI” and a Ph.D. (2009) on "Rhetoric to Brazilian fashion. Transitions from oral culture to written cul-ture in the Fluminense teaching from 1746 to 1834”. Her master’s degree won a prize from the His-torical Society of Independence of Portugal and both the masters and the PhD were published in Edunesp's best thesis program (2010 and 2013). She also holds a postdoctoral degree in Education from the University of São Paulo (2011-2012), funded by FAPESP; and other in History from the University of Lisbon (2016-2018), funded by CNPq/Br. Since 2012 she is Adjunct Teacher of Mod-ern and Contemporary History at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina in Brazil. As a visiting scholar at Harvard, she is working on Catholic sacred oratory and Iberian royal chapels from the 16th to the 19th centuries by examining both daily rituals at the chapel as well as the working of an institutional memory that operated a sacralization of the bureaucracy and the moral semantics that converted the chapel’s autonomy into a liturgy of power.

For a complete CV see         http://lattes.cnpq.br/6065557882134228.

For Sample works:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Renata_Da_Cruz_Duran_Duran https://universidadeestadualdelondrina.academia.edu/MariaRenataDuran