Dr Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva
Research Fellow
Research areas
Matheus Duarte holds a Ph.D. in History/History of Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His main research interests lay at the intersection of the History of Science, Global History, and Brazilian History. In 2020 he joined the University of St Andrews as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘The Global War against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis’. In the project, Matheus investigates the social and scientific history of rat-catching practices developed in Brazil, the USA, and in the French and British Empires during the first half of the 20th century. He analyses how anti-rat campaigns led to the invention of spatial and ecological concepts, such as sylvatic plague and rural plague. He has authored papers and chapters in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French on the global history of microbiology, the history of plague, and the history of science in Latin America. He co-edited the books “Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires (1750-1945) (Routledge, 2023)” and “Rural and Agrarian Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspective. (Routledge, forthcoming)”. He is currently adapting his thesis into the monograph “When Plague Immunized the World: Vaccines, Sera, and the Globalization of Microbiology Revisited (1894-1920)” (working title).
Selected publications
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From universal rats to future jungle foci: actors and places of plague in Brazil (1899-1940s)
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 21 Feb 2024, Empire, nation-building, and the age of tropical medicine, 1885–1960. Capocci, M. & Cozzoli, D. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 161-180 20 p. (Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Introduction: the scales, subjects and politics of rural disease knowledge
Lynteris, C. & Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Rural and agrarian disease knowledge: anthropological and historical perspectives. Duarte da Silva, M. A. & Lynteris, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review: Unuigbe, Ngozi Finette. Traditional ecological knowledge and global pandemics: biodiversity and planetary health beyond COVID‐19. 94 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: Routledge, 2021. £16.99 (e‐book)
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 2024, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 30, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Rural and agrarian disease knowledge: anthropological and historical perspectives
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. (ed.) & Lynteris, C. (ed.), 2024, (Accepted/In press) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
A global war against wild rodents: sanitary tensions, anti-rodent measures, and the spectre of sylvatic plague (1927–1950s)
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 4 Dec 2023, Animals and epidemics: interspecies entanglements in historical perspective. Hüntelmann, A., Jaser, C., Roscher, M. & Weber, N. (eds.). Köln: Bohlau Verlag, p. 181-196 16 p. (Tiere in der Geschichte - Animals in history; vol. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A guerra contra os ratos e os roedores selvagens no Brasil: Repensando a história das zoonoses na prática e epistemologicamente (1899-1956)
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 2023, História das ciências e da saúde : tendências, temas e arquivos. dos Santos Batista, R., de Souza, C., Ferreira, L. O. & Barreto, M. R. (eds.). São Paulo: Hucitec, p. 163-184 22 p. (Medicina, sáude & história; vol. 14).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Between deserts and jungles: the emergence and circulation of sylvatic plague (1920-1950)
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., 1 Jul 2023, In: Medical Anthropology. 42, 4, p. 325-339 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond science and empire: circulation of knowledge in an age of global empires, 1750-1945
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. (ed.), Haddad, T. (ed.) & Raj, K. (ed.), 18 Aug 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 201 p. (Empire and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Emerging infectious diseases and disease emergence: critical, ontological and epistemological approaches
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M. & Skotnes-Brown, J., 28 Sept 2023, In: Isis. 114, S1, p. S26-S49Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Introduction: Disease reservoirs: from colonial medicine to one health
Alves Duarte Da Silva, M., French, O., Keck, F. & Skotnes-Brown, J., 31 Jul 2023, In: Medical Anthropology. 42, 4, p. 311-324 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review