Claiton Marcio da Silva Author

Claiton Marcio da Silva is Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Brazil, with a PhD in history of sciences.He has written over 30 articles on history of science and environment, in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. His first edited book in English is The Age of the Soybean (WHP 2022), with Claudio de Majo. He has been engaged with peasant social movements looking for alternative paths to social and environmental change, through programmes such as the Soybean Social and Environmental Observatory (Soyacene) and the Laboratory of Environmental History, being a founding member of both. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Guelph and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research fellow at the Rockefeller Archive Center, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and the University of Oulu.