Affirmations and inclusion
Since the selection for the 2019 classes, the program has included the establishment of quotas in the selection of Masters and Doctorates. In addition to the vacancies for institutional agreements and for technical servants and teachers of UFPA, the program has established as an affirmative action criterion: offer of 15 vacancies with wide competition, 5 vacancies for self-declared black people (black, brown ) or indigenous, 2 places for People with Disabilities. This criterion was followed in the selection of classes from 2019, 2020 and 2021, for both Masters and Doctoral degrees. Thus, of the total number of vacancies destined to the community, practically a third is destined for quotas.
Integration with higher education
PPHIST has sought to integrate, through collective activities, the Graduate Programs in History developed in the states of Maranhão, Amazonas, Ceará, Marto Grosso and Pernambuco. As results provided by this integration, we highlight the arrival of students from these states to join the Program, activities involving the co-orientation of professors and the holding of scientific events.
Event organization
In order to contribute to the development of research and teaching of African and indigenous history and culture, given the mandatory approach to this theme, provided for by the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (Law No. 9,394/1996), the teachers from the program, the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, formed the group Hindia - História Indígena e do Indígenismo na Amazônia. In 2015, the group held the 1st Meeting of Indigenous History and Indigenism in the Amazon, with the participation of undergraduate and graduate students and professors. Subsequent events have been supported by the program.
Following this path of valuing racial ethnic debates, in 2017, the “I Symposium on Slavery and Abolitionism in the Amazon” was held as an activity of the research group “Slavery and Abolitionism in the Amazon” (Gepeam). Subsequent events have been supported by the program..