Thaís Honório Horn
Thaís Honório Horn is a researcher in African Studies with a Master’s degree from the European Interdisciplinary Master in African Studies (EIMAS), jointly awarded by the University of Porto, Universität Bayreuth, and Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. She defended her dissertation, Ethiopia at War: Political causes of the civil war between the Ethiopian Federal Government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, 2020-2022), in 2024. Her research interests span nationalism in the Horn of Africa, governance and democracy, migration flows, post-colonial identity, and cultural representations of Africa.
Her published work has addressed topics such as Somali nationalism and regional instability, labor migration from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and broader intersections between migration, politics, and global power relations. As an undergraduate in International Relations at UNISINOS (Brazil), she conducted research on the representation of African migrants in French cinema, exploring the connection between cultural production and international politics.
Professionally, Thaís has also worked as a teacher of History and Geography in the municipal public education system of Caruaru, Brazil, where she coordinated extracurricular projects on cinema, gender, social class, and sexuality in contexts of social vulnerability. Bringing together her academic training and practical experience, she approaches African Studies from an interdisciplinary and socially engaged perspective.
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