Past Visitors

 Jorge Delgadillo is an historian of race, slavery and the African diaspora in Mexico and the Atlantic world at large.

Delgadillo will contribute to the SlaveVoyages database by connecting the routes of the slave trade to Guadalajara with those already...

 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...

Betsy Konefal is an Associate Professor of History at William & Mary and author of For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, which chronicles highland mobilization in a context of revolutionary insurgency and genocidal...

My PhD dissertation, ‘Dark Matters,’ examines the largely unrecognized potentialities of darkness through a close reading of approximately eight contemporary artworks from Latin America and the Caribbean. It departs from the assumption that from the...

Mandy Izadi's scholarship sits at the intersection of Indigenous history, African American history, and global history. Her current book project investigates the history of North America's Southeast, the West, the Greater Caribbean, and Mexico from the...

Marcelo Ferraro is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Associate at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (Hutchins Center, Harvard University) and a Historical Injustice and Democracy Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Studies of...

Elisa Pomari is a PhD candidate at University of Campinas (Unicamp), a member of the Brazilian Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH-Brasil), and a visiting scholar at Harvard University (fall 2021 and 2021-22 academic year)...

Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (Department of Philosophy and Theory of Law). He has a bachelor's  and a master's degree in Law from the same University. For his master's degree, he...

Nohora A. Arrieta Fernandez is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University and a ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021). Her dissertation project, Bittersweet Poetics: Politics and Aesthetics of the Sugar Plantation in Contemporary Brazilian...

Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz is the Tanner-Opperman Chair of African Art History in Honor of Roy Sieber at Indiana University. An art historian with expertise in African and Caribbean artistic, visual and religious practices, his work challenges traditional...