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Silas Klein Cardoso

Silas Klein Cardoso, Dr.

  • Research Associate
Address
Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Kantonsschulstrasse 1, 8001 Zürich

Academic CV

  • Since 2024 Professor for Old Testament and Religious Studies at Faculdade Unida de Vitória, Brazil
  • 2024 Habilitation, University of Bern, thesis: “The Devoured Code: Southern Perspectives on Interartistic Approaches to the Bible”
  • 2024 Researcher, University of Bern (SNF, Paleographic networks: Towards automated paleographic dating)
  • 2020-2023 Postdoc, Universities of Bern and Zurich (SNF, Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant; CAPES, Grand Thesis Award)
  • 2015-2019 PhD in Religious Studies, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil (summa cum laude)
  • 2018-2019 Visiting PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland (funded by Fundação Capes)
  • 2013-2019 Teaching positions at Methodist University of São Paulo, Instituto Bíblico Kalleyano, Seminário Teológico Pentecostal do Brasil
  • 2013-2015 MA in Religious Studies, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil (summa cum laude)
  • 2009-2013 BA in Theology, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2004-2007 BA in Social Communication / Advertising, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil

Research Interests

  • Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
  • Interartistic Approaches to the Bible
  • History of Religions (ancient Israel/Palestine)
  • Theories of Media and Religion
  • Material Religion
  • Decoloniality

Awards and Fellowships

  • 2020 Grand CAPES Thesis Award Koiffmann Becker for the Best Brazilian 2019 Ph.D. dissertation in the College of Humanities (i.e., Humanities; Applied Social Sciences; Linguistics, Literature, and Arts; Interdisciplinary)
  • 2020 CAPES Thesis Award for the Best Brazilian 2019 Ph.D. dissertation in the areas of Religious Studies and Theology
  • 2018-2019 PhD Mobility Grant, PDSE, Fundação Capes, Brazil
  • 2015-2019 Fellowship for doctoral studies, PROSUC, Fundação Capes, Brazil
  • 2014-2015 Fellowship for master studies, PROSUP, Fundação Capes, Brazil
  • 2011-2013 Fellowship for undergraduate studies, PIBIC, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil

Publications (selected)