Uriel Nascimento Santos Pinho,

Uriel Pinho is a Ph.D. student in Romance Studies (Portuguese and Spanish track) at Duke University. He works on Latin American cinema and his previous research in the fields of media and cinema studies explored short documentary films in the Brazilian Amazon. 
Uriel has also combined scholarly work with creative practices. Before coming to Duke, Uriel served as a researcher, journalist, filmmaker, and translator at the Emilio Goeldi Museum of Para (Brazil), as well as an environmental educator and filmmaker collaborating on projects with the Brazilian National Health Foundation (FUNASA). He is also the creator of the "Curtas Amazonicos" website, a database dedicated to short documentary films from the Amazon region.

In 2021, Uriel published his first poetry book “Em Belém, Mães estão sempre ensinando seus Filhos que o Rio não é o Mar”

Educational background

MA in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies

Fluminense Federal University (UFF, Brazil)

BA in Communication with a concentration in Journalism

Federal University of Para (UFPA, Brazil)

Undergraduate student mobility

University of King’s College (UKINGS, Canada) 

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Web Pages:	https://duke.academia.edu/UrielPinho https://curtasamazonicos.wordpress.com/

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• PORTUGUE 101.01, ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE I Synopsis

  Westbrook 0011, MWF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM