Natália da Silva Perez

A Little Bit About Me

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In my research, I focus on transnational and comparative perspectives on cultural history from 1600 to 1900. I examine the history of women of high and low social status as they interacted with their families, communities, and authorities. I also study the historical development of public discourses about women. I collaborate on the development of natural language processing tools for historical documents, with a special emphasis on domain adaptation to multilingual, low resources contexts, and on mitigation of algorithmic bias in quantitative approaches to historical texts.

I am the PI of Racialized Motherhood (2023-2028), a research project funded by a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, hosted at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research group uses data-driven methods to compare how early newspapers represented motherhood for women of different social standings during the early modern colonial period.

I supervise PhD, master's, and bachelor's research projects that focus on the history of women, intersectionality, diversity, knowledge-making, information, and discourse. I also supervise students interested in employing methods from the digital humanities and computational social sciences.