Dayana Façanha
Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop 2017 Alumna
PhD Candidate in Brazilian history at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil,
PhD Candidate in Brazilian history at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil,
Dayana Façanha is a doctoral candidate in Brazilian history at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, with a scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Her concentration is nineteenth-century social history. Her research topics include literature, race and slavery. Her first book, to be released soon in Brazil, analyzes how José de Alencar, a Brazilian romanticist, debated political positions on slave emancipation through his novels.