Notes on Contributors
Cahen, Michel
is a political historian of modern colonial Portugal and contemporary Portuguese-speaking Africa. He is emeritus CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre ‘Les Afriques dans le monde’ (Sciences Po Bordeaux). His main interests relate to Marxism and nationalism, identity and citizenship, political identity at the margins, coloniality and creolity. He is the author, among other books, of “Não somos bandidos”. A vida diária de uma guerrilha de direita: a Renamo na época do Acordo de Nkomati (1983–1985), Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2019.
Candioti, Magdalena
Researcher at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. History of Africa diaspora, slavery and abolition in the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) and Latin America. Author of Una historia de la emancipación negra. Esclavitud y Abolición en Argentina (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, 2021); “Interamerican Dialogues and Experimentations in the Spanish South American Gradual Abolitionist Process (1810–1870)”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Nov. 2022.
Costa, Robson Pedrosa
is Auxiliar Researcher at the Centre for History of the Universidade de Lisboa, Teacher at the Instituto Federal de Pernambuco and a Specialist in History of Slavery. He is the author of ‘Sweet Masters’: the Order of Saint Benedict and the ‘Good Treatment’ of Slaves, Brazil, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”; Historia Crítica 81 (2021): 21–47; Paternalism, Transgression and Slave Resistance in Brazil. Berlin, Degruyter, 2022; with Roth Cassia, “Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children”: Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871, Hispanic American Historical Review 103, 1 (2023): 65–99.
Ehalt, Rômulo da Silva
is a Brazilian researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany. He has an MA and a PhD from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2011, 2018). His interests are the history of slavery and bondage in Asia as a legal and theological problem and the history of the Society of Jesus in Asia. Currently, he is preparing a book manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation (Jesuits and the Problem of Slavery in Early Modern Japan) and a collective volume on the writings and times of Francisco Rodrigues SJ (1515–1573).
Faria, Patricia Souza de
is an Associate Professor at the Department of History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses on the study of religious orders, the Inquisition, and enslaved populations in Goa (16th and 17th centuries). Her publications include “O Pai dos Cristãos e as populações escravas em Goa: zelo e controle dos cativos convertidos” (História, São Paulo, v. 39, 2020), and “Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa. Provincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms” (In: Manuel B. Saavedra, ed., Norms beyond Empire. Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, Leiden, Brill, 2022).
Fujitani, James Masaki
is assistant professor in transnational history at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. He studies cross-cultural interactions in sixteenth-century East Asia, with particular emphasis on China, Japan, and Portugal. He has recently published articles on slavery in Portuguese Melaka (in the volume Slavery and Bondage in Asia), on the founding of Macau (in the volume War and Trade in Maritime East Asia), and on the Jesuit hospital in Japan (in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies).
Kabalan, Michel
is a full time integrated researcher in the Instituto de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. He specializes in several issues in Arabic medieval philosophy with strong philological and historical preoccupations. He recently worked on Arabic Medieval diagrams in the FCT project ‘From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th–17th Century)’.
Lara, Silvia Hunold
is Professor of History at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She works on the history of slavery in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Brazil, and published, besides several articles and some collective books, three monographs: Campos da Violência. Escravos e senhores na Capitania do Rio de Janeiro, 1750–1808 (Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra, 1988), Fragmentos setecentistas. Escravidão, cultura e poder na América portuguesa (São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2007), and Palmares & Cucaú. O aprendizado da dominação (São Paulo, Edusp, 2021).
Macedo, Marta
is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Her current project examines the circulation of coffee and cocoa plantation systems (São Tomé, Brazil, Angola, Belgium Congo and Cameroon), combining approaches from history of science and technology, labour history, environmental history and the history of capitalism. Recently, she co-edited the volume Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Mattos, Hebe
is Professor of History at Universidade Federal of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil and co-director of the Present Pasts_ Memory of Slavery project at the Oral History and Image Lab in both universities (LABHOI/UFF/UFJF). Author of books, academic articles and historical videos, including Beyond Masters and Slaves (HAHR, 1988); Black Troops and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World (LBHR, 2008); Escravidão e Subjetividades (Open Edition, 2016); Les Couleurs du Silence (L’Harmattan, 2018), and the documentaries movies of the collection Present Pasts, http://www.labhoi.uff.br/passadospresentes/.
McKinley, Michelle
is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. She has extensively published work on public international law, Latin American legal history, and the law of slavery. Her monograph, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700 was published in 2016. A Spanish edition, Libertades fraccionadas: Esclavitud, intimidated y movilación juridical en la Lima colonial, 1600–1700 was published in 2020. Her articles appear in the Law and History Review; Slavery & Abolition; Journal of Family History; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left.
Nuñez, Sophia Blea
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Whitman College whose research interests are situated at the intersections of book history, reading culture, gender and sexuality studies, and early modern race and religion. She earned her MA and PhD at Princeton University. In addition to their work on Céspedes, they are preparing a book manuscript on the corporeality of books in the early modern Hispanic world.
Pinheiro, Fernanda Domingos
is a professor at the Instituto de Humanidades at the Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (Unilab). Her research focuses on slavery in Portuguese America and the precariousness of freedom in the slave order. She has published Em defesa da liberdade (Fino Traço, 2018) and several articles in specialized journals, including “O perigo da (re)escravização: disputas judiciais de manutenção da liberdade na Mariana setecentista” (Revista Brasileira de História, 2018) and “Injustamente possuídos como escravo” (Projeto História, 2021).
Reis, João José
is a full professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Baia, with a research interest in Brazil in the 19th century, particularly slavery, slave resistance, Afro religion, biography of free and enslaved people, among other related topics. He is the author, among other books, of Divining Slavery and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Ganhadores: a greve negra de 1857 na Bahia (Companhia das Letras, 2019).
Silva, Cristina Nogueira da
is Associate Professor at the Law School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and researcher at CEDIS. Her main research are classical liberalism and citizenship, the history of the legal personal status in the Portuguese overseas territories, as well as the way legal concepts and institutions were used by enslaved and free subaltern people in Portuguese contemporary empire. Some of her publications are Constitucionalismo e Império. A cidadania no Ultramar português (2009); A Construção jurídica dos territórios ultramarinos portugueses no século XIX (2017); Imperios Ibéricos y representación política (siglos XIX-XX) (ed. with I. Montaud, 2021).
Surwillo, Lisa
is Associate Professor of Iberian Literatures and Cultures at Stanford University. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba with a focus on empire, gender, poetry and theater. Among her publications are two books: The Stages of Property: Copyrighting Theater in Nineteenth-Century Spain, Toronto, Toronto University Press 2007; and Monsters by Trade: Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, Redwood City (CA), Stanford University Press, 2014.
Valerio, Miguel A.
is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a scholar of the African diaspora in the Iberian world. His research has focused on black Catholic brotherhoods or confraternities and Afro-creole festive practices in colonial Latin America, especially Mexico and Brazil. He is the author of Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and a co-editor of Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America: Negotiating Status through Religious Practices (Amsterdam University Press, 2022).
Voigt, Lisa
is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. A specialist in colonial Latin American literature and culture, she is the author of Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (University of Texas Press, 2016) and Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.
Xavier, Ângela Barreto
is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. A specialist in the Portuguese early modern empire, she is the author of Religion and Empire in Portuguese India. Conversion, Resistance, and the making of Goa (2022); Monarquias Ibéricas em Perspectiva Comparada. Dinâmicas Imperiais e Circulação de Modelos Administrativos (ed. with Federico Palomo and Roberta Stumpf, 2018); O Governo dos Outros. Poder e Diferença no Império Português (ed. with Cristina Nogueira da Silva, 2016); and Catholic Orientalism. Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge (with Ines G. Županov, 2015).