Daniel McDonald holds a postdoctoral internship at the Faculty of History and the Latin American Center and is an associate fellow at St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford. He has a PhD in History from Brown University (USA). Develops research into the social, urban and religious history of modern Brazil. His current research focuses on citizenship and social movements linked to the progressive Church in the urban outskirts of São Paulo during the civil-military dictatorship and the democratic transition. He is also developing a second book on Brazilian Catholic Action and its transnational links as part of the network “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII.” His work in digital humanities is in the areas of digitization, mapping and spatial analysis. He developed a digitization project with social movements in São Paulo of documents from the dictatorship era and was also a member of the Opening the Archives project on Brazil-USA relations during the Cold War.