Associate Professor III at the School of Information and Communication (FIC-UFAM). Member of the research groups Mediation – Communication, Complexity, and Cultures (UFAM); Communicative Hermeneutics: Media Studies in the Amazon (UFPA); Columnist for the newspaper A CRÍTICA-Manaus; Co-founder of the organization Women’s Solidarity Movement of Amazonas (Musas); Forum of Afro-Indigenous and Caribbean Women (FMACC); Amazonian Front in Defense of Indigenous Rights (FAMDDI). She has experience in the field of Political Science, with an emphasis on Social Communication, mainly working on the following topics: Public Information, Community Communication, Communication and Education, Print Journalism, Journalism and Collective Rights, Women and Media, Media and Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon, and Language Games. Ivânia has a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication – Journalism from the Federal University of Amazonas (1982). She is a specialist in Theory and Research in Social Communication (PROPESPUFAM, 1995) and in Education and Culture (FLACSO, 2022). She has a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Society and Culture in the Amazon (PPGSCA-UFAM, 2001), a PhD in Sociocultural Processes in the Amazon (PPGSCA-UFAM, 2017); and a Post-Doctorate in Social Sciences (PPGCS-Unisinos, 2023).
