Marcelo Ferraro
PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
Global Fellow at Harvard University, Spring 2015 and Fall 2019
Global Fellow at Harvard University, Spring 2015 and Fall 2019
Marcelo Ferraro has a degree in Law, History and Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he was also granted a masters degree and is currently a PhD candidate in the Social History program. His previous research on architecture and slavery in Vale do Paraíba analyzed the making of Brazilian slaveholding class and state political and judicial institutions. Under the advising of Professor Rafael Marquese, he has recently begun exploring slavery and punishment in Vale do Paraíba and the Mississippi Valley, as a comparative and integrative experience of institutional violence in slave and post-abolition societies in the Atlantic world in the Nineteenth century.