Public health
Crises and institutions
Epidemic response, situated knowledge, protocols, and practical intelligence.
Author · Historian · Publisher
Maria Carolina Fóscolo Gomes
Her work examines public institutions, health, memory, and the forms of knowledge and care that emerge under pressure.
A practice between archive, institution, and writing.
A Brazilian historian training at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Maria Carolina works at the intersection of the history of health, organizational studies, archives, and oral history. Her research follows how institutions learn, improvise, remember, and sustain care when certainty no longer suffices.
She founded Fóscolo & Company to bring intellectual rigor, visual form, and literary sensibility into sustained conversation.
“Research also means attending to what remains at the margins.”
Research fields
History
Memory and archives
Documents, oral history, and the traces through which institutions narrate and silence experience.
Care
Risk and knowledge
How expertise, vulnerability, and public responsibility are organized under pressure.
Featured work
Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge
Research fragments, poems, and images produced in Brazil, gathered into an inquiry into care, risk, and institutional life.
Practice and circulation
Research made to circulate.
Her work brings together historical research, editorial production, and international exchange. She has experience in the history of health in Brazil, academic session organization, and communicating research beyond university settings.
Research and circulation
Work in progress.
Research
History of health in Brazil
Archive- and oral-history-based research on epidemics, public institutions, knowledge, and care.
Publishing
Author-led research
Author of Notes on Care, Risk & Knowledge and academic articles on institutional responses to health crises.
International exchange
SHOT 2026
Session co-organizer and participant at the Society for the History of Technology annual meeting at Johns Hopkins University.