PhD in History, he is the author of the book "O mundo negro": relações raciais e a constituição do movimento negro no Brasil (2013) and co-editor of Histórias do Movimento Negro no Brasil (with Verena Alberti, 2007), Ensino de História e Culturas Afro-Brasileiras e Indígenas (with Ana Maria Monteiro, 2013), and Educação e Diversidade em Diferentes Contextos (with Warley da Costa, 2015), and recently was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) of Columbia University in New York (2015-16).