Maíra Ines Vendrame is Professor of History at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil. She is the author of two books and several articles on Italian immigration to Southern Brazil. She was the winner of the fourth Vanni Blengino Award, Italy, 2015 (AREIA international award) with the text: "Offenses, reparations and community control: the justice of Italian immigrants in the colonial nuclei of southern Brazil" and in 2015 she received the ANPUH-RS thesis award. Her research interests include social networks and migratory strategies, family, honor, justice practices, criminality, women, community organization, religiosity and popular culture.
