Short Biography:

Associate professor (2017) at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Fraya Frehse has a bachelor's degree (1996) and a degree (2001) in social sciences from the same University, where she received her master's degree (1999) and doctorate (2005) in social anthropology, with a sandwich doctorate at Oxford University (2002-2003) and post-doctorate (2010) in sociology (of the city) at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, of which has been a student ever since.

She is also a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (2018). Visiting researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and at the Université Paris Diderot, in addition to being a visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and at the Freie Universität Berlin, she held, in the latter institution, the position of holder of the "Sérgio Buarque de Holanda" Chair in Brazilian Studies (2014).

She was a representative of the Sociology and Anthropology departments at USP on the Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage of the State of São Paulo (CONDEPHAAT) (2008-2009), is an effective member of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (since 2005) and of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (since 2006).

She has experience in the areas of anthropology and sociology in its interface with history, with an emphasis on urban studies, working mainly on the following themes: everyday life and history in and through space (bodily and/or urban); space and body as objects of sociological knowledge; urban mobility; cultural heritage; body, public space and city/urbanization in Brazil; bodily uses of public places (especially streets and squares); image (in particular, the visual culture of the streets) in Brazil; city of São Paulo (history).