Experience

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Independent Scholar, Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow

  • 2019 - Present


Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformation (WIGH)

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Conducted research and writing for book manuscript tentatively entitled "Routine Imprisonment, Race, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, 1830-1890" which examines how the routine imprisonment of slaves, free people of color, and free or liberated Africans tied race to penal practice. Selected Accomplishments: ♦ Employed active listening and public speaking skills and delivered two presentations of my research to expert and general audience. ♦ Presented “Apprenticeship, Penal Servitude, and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil” Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University (April 5) and Slavery, Nation, and Prison Building in Postcolonial Brazil” Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar, Harvard University (November 26, 2018). ♦ Published peer reviewed article entitled “Free Africans, Slaves, and Convict Labor in the Construction of Rio de Janeiro’s Correction House: Atlantic Labor Regimes and Confinement in Brazil’s Atlantic Port City,” International Review of Social History, March 2019, Special Issue on “Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities,” Show less