About My Work
My work investigates the role urban slavery and the African Diaspora in the Americas played in the development of economic practices, social networks, experiences of race, and uses of urban spaces in different eighteenth-century cities of the Americas, with a special focus on the mining towns of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Citations
- Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the 18th-Century Americas (Palgrave, 2008).
- Slave women and urban labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, IN New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison (Louisiana University Press, 2015).
- “Picturing Families between Black and White: Race, Family, and Social Mobility in 18th-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil.” The Americas 74, no. 4 (October 2016): 405-426. https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2016.71
- Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban. In Doing Global Urban Research, edited by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler, 211-224. London: Sage, 2018. (co-authored with Emma Hart)
- “Digging Down into the Global Urban Past.” Urban History: "Cities and Globalization in the Pre-Modern World." https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000462. Co-authored with Emma Hart.
- “The Urban and the Global in the Early Modern Period in a Comparative Perspective.” Revista Almanack: “O Rio de Janeiro e a Cidade Globa: Histórias Comparadas de Cidades na Era Moderna da Globalização” 24 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463324ed00119. Co-authored with Emma Hart.
- "Families, Manumission, and Freed People in Urban Minas Gerais in the Era of Atlantic Abolitionism." International Review of Social History, 65, S28 (2020): 117-144. doi:10.1017/S0020859020000152. Co-authored with Douglas C. Libby.
- “A história urbana global: um chamado ao diálogo.” Esboços: Histórias em Contextos Globais 28, no. 47 (March 2021): 5-16. Co-authored with João Júlio Gomes dos Santos Junior and Carl Nightingale.
- “African women, Portuguese men, and the colonial households that sustained an empire: stories from Minas Gerais in the 18th century.” Brésil(s) 20 (2021): https://doi.org/10.4000/bresils.10692
- “Les Confréries Noires, Les Villes Minières, et La Vie Civique au Brésil Colonial.” Les fondations de villes sur les littoraux américains: projets, experiences, adaptasions, edited by Laurent Vidal and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, 269-285. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021.
- “Femmes Africaine, homme portugais et familles colonials soutenant un empire : histoires du Minas Gerais au XVIIIe siècle.” Revue Brésil(s) 20. Special Issue edited by Jean Hébrard and Erin Rowe. https://doi.org/10.4000/bresils.10692
Professional Associations
Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association
Brazilian Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association