Stella Ferreira Gontijo holds a PhD from the Graduate Program in History at UFMG, with the thesis “Militantes que son mujeres: Margaret Randall, produção intelectual e os depoimentos das Cubanas e Nicaraguans em contextos revoluçãos” (2025). She was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Award, granted by Fulbright, with a research scholarship to work as a visiting researcher at New Mexico University (UNM/USA) in the academic year 2023-2024. She holds a Master’s degree in Social History from UFF (2019). Specialist in Epistemologies of the South from CLACSO (2024). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from UFMG (2015). She is co-coordinator of the group “Intellectual History: practices, narratives and circulation of ideas” (CNPq). She coordinates extension projects linked to NESTH and CERBRAS (DCP/UFMG), such as the “Continuing Education Course: Feminism and Antiracism in Movement” and the research “Social Movements and Urban Mobility in Barreiro”. She develops research in the area of Latin America with an emphasis on Intellectual History, Decolonial Theory and Gender Studies.