Juciene Ricarte Cardoso is an Indigenous scholar of the Tarairiú people from Paraíba, Brazil. She holds a PhD in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco. She is Professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) and teaches in both the Graduate Program in History at UFCG and the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Brazil.
Between 1998 and 1999, she participated as a researcher in archival and historical processing for the Barão do Rio Branco Rescue Project (Projeto Resgate Barão do Rio Branco/MINC) in Portugal. From 2021 to 2022, she returned to the project as a consultant for the National Library of Brazil and UNESCO, coordinating thematic collections on Colonial Documents on the History of Women in Brazil and Indigenous History in Colonial Brazil.
She is the coordinator of the International Research Group Permanent Seminar on Indigenous Worlds at the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, within the CREPAL (Centre de Recherches sur les Pays Lusophones), Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (EILA), where her research focuses on the history of Indigenous women.
In addition, she serves as a Senior Researcher at the National Science Centre of Poland through a project on Digital Humanities and Subalternized Peoples in the Portuguese Colonial Empire at the Institute of History in Warsaw, Poland.
Professor Cardoso has published numerous scholarly articles, interviews, monographs, and edited volumes on Indigenous peoples and their agency in Colonial Brazil, as well as on the history of Indigenous women.