Mônica Tenaglia

Mônica Tenaglia

Assistant Professor in Archival and Information Science at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.

Mônica Tenaglia is an Assistant Professor in Archival and Information Science at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Brasília, an MA in Archives and Records Management from University College London and a BA in History from the University of São Paulo. She was a visiting researcher at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (2018-2019). Prior to her current position at UFPA, she has worked extensively as an archivist in England and Brazil, including at the Brazilian National Truth Commission and the University of the Arts London.

Tenaglia studies the relationship between archives, archivists, human rights and diversity. Currently, she has been studying how archives are used in investigations into human rights violations of indigenous people, communities, and marginalized groups. She is the author of “As comissões da verdade e os arquivos da ditadura militar brasileira” [Truth commissions and archives of the Brazilian military dictatorship] (University of Brasília Press, July 2024) which has won the Jabuti Acadêmico Prize.