During her stay at the WCFIA, Martine Jean will complete her monograph on the advent of the penitentiary in Brazil with a focus on the Casa de Correção (Correction House) in Rio de Janeiro. Entitled "Routine Imprisonment, Race, and Citizenship in...
Research Interests: Historical sociology of development; Latin America; Mexico; global governance.
Marcelo Ferraro has a degree in Law and in History from the University of São Paulo and is currently a student in the graduate program in social history. Recently, he has developed an interest in the slaveholding elites in the nineteenth-century Atlantic...
Norberto O. Ferreras is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Latin American History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil). He is a historian of forced and indigenous labor in Latin America and the relations of this region with the International...
Cyrus Veeser is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. His research interests include modernization in colonies and LDCs, 1870-1930; U.S. business and economic history, 1870-1945; Caribbean and Latin American history, 1870-1945; and forced...
Sibylle Duhautois graduated from Sciences Po and holds a Master degree in History. Since 2012 she works in the Futurepol project as a research assistant. After having obtained her agrégation in history in 2013, she started her Phd thesis at the Centre...
Liliana Obregón is professor of law at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has a degree in law from the same university, an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University (Bologna-Washington)...
Tamis Parron is the WIGH Volkswagen Global Fellow. He received his PhD from the University of Sao Paulo in 2015, where his dissertation “The Politics of Slavery in the Age of Freedom: United States, Brazil, and Cuba, 1787-1846” was awarded best history...