Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto is a historian and professor at the University of Brasília (UnB). She is the first Black faculty member in UnB’s Department of History.
Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto attended a public school in Planaltina. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Centro de Ensino Unificado de Brasília (CEUB) and a bachelor’s degree in History from Universidade Paulista (UNIP). She holds a master’s degree in History from the University of Brasília (UnB), as well as a doctorate and postdoctoral degree in History from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

In 2018, she published the book *Escritos de liberdade* through Unicamp Press, based on her thesis, which received an honorable mention in the 2015 Capes Thesis Award. The book examines the lives of seven Black men—Ferreira de Menezes, Luís Gama, Machado de Assis, José do Patrocínio, Ignácio de Araújo Lima, Arthur Carlos, and Theophilo Dias de Castro—and seeks to highlight how a network of Black intellectuals engaged in the “struggle for freedom” and “citizenship for Black people in nineteenth-century Brazil” was formed

. From 2023 to 2025, she served as Director General of the National Archives (AN) in Rio de Janeiro. For the first time, the agency will be led by a Black woman.