Vitus Huber is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Janggen-Poehn Foundation. He received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2017. In his dissertation he analyzed the political economy of the conquest of New Spain (Mexico and...
Louise C. de Mello is a PhD candidate in History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville under joint supervision at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro. Her PhD research looks at cross-frontier relations in the southwest of...
Manuel Herrero is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville since 2001. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998 and taught as a research fellow at the École...
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...
At Harvard, Jorun Poettering was a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Before coming to Harvard, she spent a year at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. She works on a social history...
Bram De Ridder is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven (Belgium). In his current project he studies the legal and political aspects of territorial neutrality during early modern civil wars, questioning how such neutrality was created...
Elisa Frühauf Garcia is professor of Latin American Colonial History at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 2009, having completed post-doctoral research at the University of Campinas (2007-2009) and the Spanish...
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...
Maria Renata Duran has an undergraduate degree in history from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), a Masers on "Echoes of the Pulpit. Sacred discourse in the time of d. João VI” and a Ph.D. (2009) on "Rhetoric to Brazilian fashion. Transitions...
Kelly Urban received her BA in History from Texas A&M University and her MA from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. While at Harvard, she was a PhD student at Pittsburgh in residence at Harvard. Her MA thesis analyzed the creation of the state...
