Lucio Menezes Ferreira earned his Ph.D. in Cultural History at the Campinas State University in 2007. Since 2008 he is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology of Federal University of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He’s also researcher at the Brazilian National Council of Scientific Research (CNpq), and Associate Professor at Salamanca University and University of Rennes I. Ferreira’s primary research falls within African Diaspora Archaeology at the beef jerky plantations, community research with afrobrazilian communities, and afrobrazilian cultural heritage. Between June 2018 and June 2019 he was visiting professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University.