Adriana Chira is a scholar of law and land tenure in rural societies shaped by slavery and its afterlives. Her first book, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge University Press, 2022), explores how in a part of...
Lori De Lucia is a historian who specializes in the history of slavery in the early modern Mediterranean, with a focus on networks connecting southern Italy and West Africa. She received her doctorate in History from UCLA in 2020. She is interested in...
Zach Sell received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an associate producer for Firelight Films and a visiting assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown...
Samantha Payne is a historian of the United States and Latin America, with particular interests in slavery, emancipation, race and capitalism. Her dissertation, The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas...
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: History of Europe during early modern times, particularly the political economy of the Iberian Empires; global capital; merchant networks; slave traffic; Asian trade; and global cities.
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...