Dr. Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

Ongoing Projects

From Data to Data (I). Protocols from the Ibicaba Project: mechanical cleaning, imaging, and metadata with controlled vocabularies (jointly with Leonardo Gardenal).
From Data to Data (II). Reflections on researchers' choices in generating new sources and datasets for the Humanities and the Applied Social Sciences (jointly with Leonardo Gardenal).
"For how long still?" Counting yearly workdays and workday lengths in Brazilian agriculture (1890-1970): New micro-evidence (jointly with Thales Zamberlan).
Migratory responses to war and conflict in global, long-run perspective, 1820s-2020s (jointly with Jörg Baten)

2024: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Institute for Economic & Social History
2024: Associate researcher – DAAD-Prime Fellow at University of Tübingen
2022-2023: Visiting assistant professor – DAAD-Prime Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2022: Lecturer: “Development Economics: Introduction & Applications” and Aarhus Summer School 2022 at Aarhus University
2020: Lecturer: “Development Economics”, Spring 2020 at Jacobs University Bremen
2019-2022: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Institute for Economic & Social History
2019: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Göttingen – Ibero-American Institute

2015-2019 Ph.D. – Development Economics from University of Göttingen
DFG's Research Training Group 1723 – Globalization and Development
Thesis: “From bonded laborers to educated citizens? Immigration, labor markets and human capital in São Paulo, Brazil (1820-2010)”
2012-2014 M.A. – Development Economics from University of Göttingen
Thesis: “The combined effect of institutions and human capital for economic development: a case study of German immigration to São Paulo, Brazil (1840-1929)”
2007-2012 B.A. – Economics from University of São Paulo

Since 2024 Associate Researcher
Brazilian Lab, Inequalities Hub – Princeton University
Since 2024 Academic & managerial coordinator
Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Reginal Grant: “Accounting for the countryside: rural & environmental history in the coffee economy of Southeastern Brazil (1890-1990)
Since 2023 Associate researcher & consultant
German-speaking Press in Brazil: A Digital Humanities Approach – University of Tübingen
Since 2021 Associate researcher
Grupo de Pesquisa em História e Evolução da Agricultura e Complexos Agroindustriais (GEPHAC) – University of São Paul
Since 2019 International correspondent
Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Campinas (IHGGC)
Since 2015 Associate researcher
Historical Household Budgets Project
2019-2022 Principal Investigator
Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Project "Labor, livelihood, and immigration in a Brazilian plantation: the archives of Ibicaba farm
2018-2022 Associate researcher
Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) – University of Göttingen