Vitor Barros

Vitor Barros is a guest in 2025. Vitor is a sociologist and a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn (Germany) under the supervision of Rudolf Stichweh. He previously studied political science, philosophy and sociology in São Paulo (Brazil), Coimbra (Portugal) and Bonn (Germany). Funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, his doctoral research focuses on the evolution of ethnoracial differentiation and hostility in post-slavery Brazil (1889-2022) to explain how subtle forms of ethnoracial tensions emerge and change in self-proclaimed pluralistic countries. His interests include ethnic studies, racism and anti-racism, asymmetrical dependencies, theories of community and society, social theory, systems theory, global history and historical sociology.