About me

I am an interdisciplinary human rights scholar with a particular interest in socio-legal studies, gender and sexuality, and critical approaches to international law. Currently, I am a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

My legal training has been extensively informed by critical social theory, and most of my work combines empirical qualitative methods with social and legal theory. Namely, my scholarship bridges history, law, and anthropology in the analysis of human rights theory and practice.

I earned an interdisciplinary PhD at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), affiliated with both the International Law Department and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. I also have a Master’s in State Theory and Constitutional Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, Brazil).

My current book project, Queer International Activism, is based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork and examines the mobilization of human rights by transnational LGBTI+ activists. My latest book, published in 2023, analyses advocacy efforts by the Brazilian LGBTI+ movement in the 1980s.

I am a book review editor and a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal (AFLJ), and am currently serving as an assistant editor of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL).

My research interests broadly include international human rights law, queer and feminist approaches to international law, transnational activism, and anthropology of human rights.

My current research project, Contesting Gender in International Legal Discourse (CONGEN), investigates the transnational mobilization against ‘gender’ at global governance fora and its impact on human rights multilateralism.