Luciano Aronne De Abreu holds a master's degree in Brazilian History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, 1995) and a doctorate in Latin American Historical Studies from the University of Rio dos Sinos Valley (UNISINOS, 2005). He is currently a full professor at the Postgraduate Program in History at PUCRS and Editor-in-Chief at PUCRS University Press (EDIPUCRS). Have experience in History, focusing on History of Brasil República, acting on the following subjects: Vargas Era, Political Authoritarianism, Brazilian Political-Social Thought, and Corporatism. He is coordinator of CNPq Research Groups Political Authoritarianism and Press in Contemporary Brazil and Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Comparative Perspective, and also participates in the following international research networks: International Network of Studies of Corporatism (NETCOR), Rights: History and Memory, and Lusophone Connections: Dictatorships and Democracies in Portuguese. In recent years, he has published several books, book chapters, and articles in leading national and international journals on the above topics.