Assistant Professor (2006)

Early Africa, Colonial Brazil, Atlantic World

Office Hours: T & Th 2:00-3:30

Office: 211 Levering Hall

Phone: (434) 244-7147

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: rf2nvirginia.edu

Education

BA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1992
MA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1996
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003

 

Selected Publications

"Atlantic Microhistories: Slaving, Mobility, and Personal Ties in the Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)", in Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi and David Treece (eds.), Brazil, Portugal and the Black Atlantic (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

"The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s", in David Eltis, New Trends in the Study of the Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

"Slaving and Resistance to Slaving in Angola", in David Eltis and Stanley Engerman (eds), Cambridge History of Slavery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

"The Atlantic Networks of the Benguela Slave Trade (1730-1800)", in CEAP (ed.), Trabalho Forçado Africano: Experiências Coloniais Comparadas (Lisboa: Campo das Letras, 2006), pp. 66-99.

"Biografia, Mobilidade e Cultura no Atlântico: Angola, sécs. XVIII-XIX". Rio de Janeiro, Revista Tempo, 2006.

"Dinâmica do Comércio Intra-Colonial: Geribitas, Panos Asiáticos e Guerra na Tráfico Angolano de Escravos (Século XVIII)", in João Fragoso, Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvêa, Maria Fernanda Baptista Bicalho (eds), O Antigo Regime nos Trópicos: a Dinâmica Imperial Portuguesa (séculos XVI-XVIII) (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 2001).

"Brasil e Angola no Tráfico Ilegal de Escravos", in Selma Pantoja (ed.), Brasil e Angola nas Rotas do Atlântico Sul. (Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand, 1999), pp. 143-194.

Grants Awarded

Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, 2006

Harvard University, Residential Fellowship at David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006

Yale University, Residential Fellowship at Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, 2006

UCLA, Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2002

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Research Grant, 2000

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Research Grant, 2000

UCLA, Fieldwork Research Grant, 2000

UCLA, Summer Travel Grant, 1998

UCLA, Summer Travel Grant, 1998

Tinker Foundation, Summer Travel Grant, 1998

Current Research

I am finalizing a book provisionally entitled Shaping the Atlantic World: Slaving, Commercial Networks, and Cultural Landscapes (Angola and Brazil, ca. 1680-1830), which will be published by Cambridge University Press. My second book-length project is a social history of the abolition of the slave trade in Angola between 1830 and 1860.