Pedro Peixoto
Pedro is a PhD student at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his BA and MA in History from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and from UFF, respectively, and wrote his dissertations on the representation of Celtic women in Ancient texts and the Iron Age chariot burials in Yorkshire.
His current research and PhD thesis deal with the multiple constructions of gender in Middle and Late Iron Age Britain (5th - 1st centuries B.C), taking the use and the manipulation of the material culture found in mortuary contexts (with a special focus on East Yorkshire) as evidence. The research hopes to demonstrate how burials, which were much more than simple reflections of reality, could be an important arena for social projections and aspirations. Moreover, it aims to show how some Iron Age women played an important role in a broad process that dealt with the creation of memories, of group distinctions and of social recognition. The thesis hopes to question and challenge some of our contemporary perspectives on gender dynamics in Iron Age Britain, offering an alternative approach to the subject that seeks to understand the fluid construction of identities beyond simplistic and binary oppositions.
Nowadays, besides studying for his PhD, Pedro works as a Professor-Tutor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CEDERJ-UAB) for their online bachelor’s History course and he is also one of the editors of the “Revista Gaîa” (ISNN: 1517-8919), a Brazilian academic journal dedicated to the study of Ancient History.
Supervisors: Adriene Baron Tacla
Address: NEREIDA/ UFF
Rua Prof. Marcos Waldemar de Freitas Reis, – Bloco O, sala 413, Gragoatá
24210-380 - Niteroi, RJ - Brasil
His current research and PhD thesis deal with the multiple constructions of gender in Middle and Late Iron Age Britain (5th - 1st centuries B.C), taking the use and the manipulation of the material culture found in mortuary contexts (with a special focus on East Yorkshire) as evidence. The research hopes to demonstrate how burials, which were much more than simple reflections of reality, could be an important arena for social projections and aspirations. Moreover, it aims to show how some Iron Age women played an important role in a broad process that dealt with the creation of memories, of group distinctions and of social recognition. The thesis hopes to question and challenge some of our contemporary perspectives on gender dynamics in Iron Age Britain, offering an alternative approach to the subject that seeks to understand the fluid construction of identities beyond simplistic and binary oppositions.
Nowadays, besides studying for his PhD, Pedro works as a Professor-Tutor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CEDERJ-UAB) for their online bachelor’s History course and he is also one of the editors of the “Revista Gaîa” (ISNN: 1517-8919), a Brazilian academic journal dedicated to the study of Ancient History.
Supervisors: Adriene Baron Tacla
Address: NEREIDA/ UFF
Rua Prof. Marcos Waldemar de Freitas Reis, – Bloco O, sala 413, Gragoatá
24210-380 - Niteroi, RJ - Brasil
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