My research explores topics including the political mechanisms that contributed to the social construction of domestic work as a “feminine” occupation predominantly assigned to poor and nonwhite women in 20th-century Latin America. Additionally, I examine the ways in which domestic workers have resisted these structures by organizing collectively via unions and fighting for labor rights—on par with those of other professions—especially during authoritarian regimes in 20th-century Brazil. I am also interested in the historical contributions of African and Afro-Brazilian peoples to Brazilian political, economic, religious, social, and cultural life, particularly  in 19th- and 20th-century Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.  I also have other interests, which include gender roles in independence movements and in 20th-century Latin American states; women’s biographies; Catholic and Afro-Catholic brotherhoods from colonial to republican Brazil; Liberation Theology; social movements in 20th-century Latin America;  the history of science and medicine; Indigenous and Afro cosmology in the Americas; feminist theories; decolonial and participatory research methods; and oral history.