Overview
Uriel Pinho is a Ph.D. student in Romance Studies (Portuguese and Spanish track) at Duke University. He works on Latin American cinema, ecological discourses, and decolonization. His previous research in the fields of media and cinema studies explored short documentary films, colonial imaginaries, and modernizing discourses within the Brazilian Amazon. Currently, Uriel is interested in how indigenous and Afro-diasporic cinema in the Pan-Amazon region relate to ecological crises.
Uriel has also combined scholarly work with creative practices. Before coming to Duke, Uriel served as a researcher, journalist, filmmaker, and translator at the Emilio Goeldi Museum of Para (Brazil), as well as an environmental educator and filmmaker collaborating on projects with the Brazilian National Health Foundation (FUNASA). He is also the creator of the "Curtas Amazonicos" website, a database dedicated to short documentary films from the Amazon region.
In 2021, Uriel published his first poetry book “Em Belém, Mães estão sempre ensinando seus Filhos que o Rio não é o Mar”
Educational background
MA in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies
Fluminense Federal University (UFF, Brazil)
BA in Communication with a concentration in Journalism
Federal University of Para (UFPA, Brazil)
Undergraduate student mobility
University of King’s College (UKINGS, Canada)